From Sprites to 3D

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From Sprites to 3D

• and back!

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Early hardware (The 80s)

• Design around and for constraint
• Function after form
• Count the colors!

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Better 2D!

• Rounder and Softer
• Still Iconic
• Count the colors!

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The 3D Transition
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The 3D Transition part 2!

• Prerendered graphics
• Softness
• Aliasing effects

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Good or bad?
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Some points

• Natural vs. artificial
• Real vs. iconic
• Seeing vs. perceiving

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3D!
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A little bit of history

• Depicting 3d on a 2d plane
• Brunelleschi painting buildings on a mirror
• Perspective projection distortion
• Single, multi-point, non-linear perspective
• Foreshortening, transforms
• Blah blah blah blah

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The basic thing to know is

• 3D is still a very new thing!

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Vector
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Polygons (flat-shaded)
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Textured Polygons
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Special effects
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Special effects
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Special effects
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The future?
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Ramifications

• Will Wrights 2005 Spore Presentation
• Artist/engineers and engineer/artists?
• Middleware technology
• Recreating reality?

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What does this mean for art

• Insert philosophical rambling here.
• Seriously.
• I might be wrong.
• Call me on it!