Course Summary

This Semester, I took an I immersive education at Boston College with Professor Aaron Walsh. The course was an introduction to computer graphics and virtual reality. The course was entirely online. We met weekly on Second Life, and had various assignments to accomplish. Afterward, we would discuss our progess in Second Life. If you would like more information on Immersive education, please follow this link: http://ImmersiveEducation.org. More information on the course can be found at and http://bc.edu. I was a GREAT COURSE, and I would recommend it to anyone.

We used various different technologies to demonstrate computer graphics and virtual reality. Our main tool was Second Life. We learned monocular cues and built using blocks. We also used wonderland as a tool to communicate and show 3d graphics. A third tool we used was Google SketchUp. This tool was used for more intense 3-d designs that we were asked to create. We then uploaded our designs into google earth. This was a great learning experience.

Class #11 Roll Call

Here is my roll call for class #11 on Dec 13th, 2009

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Santa Clause - Second Life

Here is my second life santa clause for my class #11

I began with an oval and started building limbs from there.

It was hard for me to create arms that looked continuous while bending. In the end I think I was able to accomplish it.

I then added texture and the white fur for santa.

I created a green belt for Santa.

I added a hat and a head to Santa Clause.

Here is my final Santa Clause with hands and feet. I am happy with how it came out.

Santa Clause - SketchUp

Here is my santa clause I created during class #11

I created a cylinder as the base and began building from that.

I then began creating the coat and the button.

To create the arm, I had to put a rectangle base to push out two cylinder.

I used the "follow me tool" to create the curved arms.

I created a beard and made shoes and hands to finalize my santa clause

FaceGen

I initially tried to upload my own face into facegen. Even though, I was successful in uploading it, it did not look exactly like me. This is most likely because I did not use a very hi-resolution camera to take the pictures. I used the face to generate 5 different expressions

I thought this one was funny.I tried to mix sad and happy expressions together.

This expression is meant to resemble "the rock" He has one eyebrow raised and one eyebrow flexed. At the same time, I tried to give him an intimidating look.

This next expression was to mimic a person giving a "fake" smile.

This is an expression combines surprise and being scared.

This last expression is a man who is extremely frustrated and wants to take out some anger.

VRML Character

Using photoshop cs3, I removed every blemish from John's face. Afterwards, I played with the hue/saturation of the image to create a much darker skin shade. I also decided to give John a gotee. Th last alteration I made was to change his eye color to a vibrant blue.

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America's Army

This game was a lot more difficult than I had anticipated. It took me several tries to get through the training. Here are a few snapshots of me doing it.

This is me trying to finish the obstacle course in time. I had to move very fast without any mistakes to be able to complete it.

This is me completing the sharpshooting training. The targets were very far away, which made it difficult to shoot.

Here I am completing the last training mission. Random enemies and friendlies popped up, and I had to use a combination of flash bangs, grenades, and firepower to get through the training.

In the end, I somehow ended up in jail. I think I shot the instructor by accident and killed him. Once in jail there was nothing for me to do. I would have to restart, and begin from scratch.