Overview%20of%20Spring%20Semester%20Tools%20and%20Technologies

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Overview of Spring Semester Tools and
Technologies

• Glenn Bresnahan
• glenn_at_bu.edu

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Fall Semester Review

• Introduction to Virtual Reality
• Stereoscopic vision Display Wall technology
• Animation
• DAFFIE VR software
• Capturing digital images and audio
• Corel Paint creating digital images
• Audacity manipulating digital audio
• Principals of digital media
• Using digital images and audio in VR
• Building a VR world
• Using coordinates
• Constructing objects from building blocks

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Spring Semester Preview

• Putting it all into motion

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Spring Semester Preview

• Animating 2D images
• Video texture maps in VR
• Programming using Logo
• Principals of computer programming
• Computer generated 2D images/animation
• Controlling 3D motion
• Principals of computer graphics
• 3D modeling and animation using Maya
• Generating complex 3D objects
• Generating 3D object animation
• Putting it all together using DAFFIE
• Final project

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2D Animation

• Creating the perception of motion by playing a
  sequence of still images
• Each image is displayed for a fraction of a
  second
• Basis for film,
• video,
• computer
• graphics, etc.

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2D Animation Example
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2D Animation Example
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2D Animation

• Use Corel to create a sequence of images
• Generate a 2D animation (movie clip)
• DAFFIE video textures

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Using Animated Texture in 3D
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Programming Logo

• Programs and algorithms
• Teaching the computer to do new things
• Programming languages Logo
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• end
• repeat 90 square 100 right 4

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Using Logo Programs

• Computer generated images
• Turtle graphics
• Generating 2D animations
• texture maps
• Controlling DAFFIE objects
• Turtle3D

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Principals of Computer Graphics

• Formalize concepts used in Logo and Graph Paper
  World
• Coordinate systems
• Graphical primitives
• Geometric models
• Lighting and shading
• Rendering

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Maya 3D Modeling and Animation

• Sophisticated program for constructing, animating
  and rendering 3D computer models

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Computer Models
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Computer Rendering
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3D Modeling - Maya

• Create complex 3D objects
• 3D coordinate systems
• 3D object geometry
• 3D construction techniques
• 3D transformations
• Modeling surface materials
• Exporting objects to DAFFIE

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3D Computer Animation

• Render a sequence of models

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3D Computer Animation
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3D Animation - Maya

• Sequencing
• Motion paths
• Object grouping and hierarchy

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Building a 3D World

• Conceive and design a VR world
• Construct VR world layout
• Build 3D models and sequences
• Generate texture maps
• Generate audio clips
• Add behaviors with programmed agents
• Exhibition

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Questions?