Class #11 - Assignment 9 - Course Evaluation

Final #3: Group 3D Building Project

For the final project we worked as a group on building a house with its interior and exterior surroundings.  I focused on the exterior, building a pond surrounded by palm and tropical trees.  You may notice my avatar is dressed differently in this screenshot.  This is because I had to switch form Safari to Chrome.

Group Building Work Distribution

This is a picture from the beginning of our project.  Shayra is laying the foundation of some walls.

I placed a pond in a clear area.

After placing the pond I planted some animated palm trees and tropical trees.

I realized that some trees needed to be planted on the other side of the pond in order to give the garden area symmetry. By the way, you can see the fence that Caroline built.

Trees added to the other side of the pond gave the area a symmetrical look.

This is a view of our group's compound from the distance.

Here is a final shot of our completed group project.  It is quite an impressive compound.  I must say, the pond and trees give this a very classy look.

These are screenshots of the Group 3D Building Project created in cloudparty.  It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc  

August 1 - Roll Call 1 - Game Board Update

Both teams are in a dead heat...each team has moved ahead one piece.  

Final #2: Six Monocular Depth Cues

This image illustrates atmospheric perspective.  My avatar and the purple alien are sharp and detailed.  The bear in the background is less detailed and fuzzy.  Also, the smoke rising from the care is dense and solid black near the car.  As it rises it dissipates and becomes less dense.  This gives it the appearance that it is moving away and behind the car.
  

This image illustrates linear perspective.  The tree planters and lines in the sidewalk appear to narrow as the recede.  The planters become progressively shorter as they move further away.  This linear perspective is combined with size differences as the planters are also becoming smaller as they move further away.

This image is an excellent example of texture and density.  The bottom shows the corrugated steel floor with wide spaces between the pattern.  As you move up the spaces between the corrugation become more dense.  This increased density makes the floor look further away.  This is an example of objects appearing smaller being further away.

This screen shot illustrates both lighting and shading.  We can see in this image that the light source is coming from the upper left.  The light is most intense in the upper left part of the image and gradually becomes less intense towards the lower right of the image.  The shadowing on the backside of the rock uses shadowing and gives this scene a sense of realism and depth.

This screenshot illustrates occlusion.  The car is sitting in front of the building which is a visual hint that it is in front of the building.

In this screen shot you can see building off in the distance...they appear smaller.  In the foreground you can see my avatar's head...it is closer and larger.  These size differenced are visual clues creating a sense of how close or far objects are and where they are positioned in relation to one another.


This is a blog illustrating the six Monocular Depth Cues. They are screen shots from CloudParty which have been cropped and edited in Gimp.  It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc   

Final #1: Flash/Powerbullet .swf Files

Link to animated Flash (.swf file) - 1

Link to animated Flash (.swf file) - 2

Link to animated Flash (.swf file) - 3

Link to animated Flash (.swf file) - 4
(There are three slides to this link (4)...be sure to toggle between each on with the red arrows at the bottom of the screen.)

This is an exercise where I have used PowerBullet Flash authoring tool for Windows to create flash files. The links above will take you to the animations I created. It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc  

http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Class #10 - Assignment 5 - Monocular Depth Cues

This is a screenshot of my Avatar in the VWBPE Auditorium in CloudParty.  This auditorium scene highlights all six Monocular Depth Cues.  The four chairs on the stage illustrate Size Difference.  The exit door in the background illustrates Texture Density.  The display board next to the exit door illustrates Atmospheric Perspective.  The doorway in the upper right corner illustrates Lighting & Shading.  The steps in front of my Avatar illustrate linear perspective.  The chair and desk hidden behind the barrier to the left of my Avatar illustrates Occlusion.

Roll Call #1 - Game Board Update

Team KSKCK has pulled away from The Most Prolific Team by moving ahead one space.  The Most Prolific Team is giving it the college try but has failed to move any spaces after two classes.