Class 4 Assignment 8 (Meshmoon Avatar)

The avatar customization in Meshmoon Rocket really isn't all that great. There are about 4 male characters, and 6 changes in total.

Here are a couple of the limited number of outfits you can have (they only work for Jack)

Here's the one I landed upon:

Very few options here is disappointing after having listened to a 10 minute speech on how important an avatar is...

This is an 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  

Class 4 Assignment 7 "Meshmoon Exploration"

In 5 different virtual worlds exploring together with the Virtual Goats. 

This is an 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  

Class 3: Exploring the Virtual World Framework (VWF)

Grassylands:

Middle East (first shop shows how the image renders in a new world)

Control room:

Meshmoon and VWF are very similar in feel, but consider that one runs off the hardware directly, and the other through the browser is why they are so different. Immediately after launching VWF, my computer started to squeal as the fans got louder and louder to compensate for the extra heat my processor was putting out. It was thus pretty evident to me that the worlds being rendered in VWF are on my computer and not on a server. 

In comparison to Meshmoon, the graphics are actually quite more sophisticated. The ground is textured, and instead box shaped navigable areas, the ground is contoured throughout. I feel like if VWF ran natively on my mac as a local piece of software, It would blow Meshmoon out of the water. Its severely limited by the fact that it has to run through the browser even though they are both supported by the OpenGL framework. 

This is an 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  

MIDTERM #4 (Meshmoon sefie)

Changing my avatar in Meshmoon to a robot:

Here we are testing the camera control pane to make a selfie:

My postcard:

This assignment was also to familiarize myself with the mesh moon and more specifically, change the orientation of the camera to face myself. This is an 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  

Class 3: Entering Meshmoon Virtual Worlds

Initializing:

In the tractor landscape:

Way to go mesh moon:

Back at it!

Above the map:

Look at that attention to detail:

This assignment was to familiarize myself with the mesh moon interface and see what the 3D experience with this software is all about. Very neat stuff. This is an 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  

Class 4 Assignment (GIMP exporting pt 2)

Back in GIMP with the redeye fix file.

GIMP offered many file formats to export as

The PNG Export was buggy for me after numerous tries:

Here's a quality .jpeg export of the image

And here's a .gif export. There is significantly more artifact and grain in the .gif colorspace and exposure latitude and it shows. 

This is an 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  

MIDTERM #3 (multiple image formats)

 Original ball.TIF in GIMP

 Exporting as a .JPEG

Exporting as a .GIF

 Exporting as .PNG

Here we were testing the different export methods and the options that go with them in Gimp. With an image of resolution that is this poor, it is difficult to see the differences in format. This is a midterm 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  

MIDTERM #2 (cat w/ text)

Original photo:

 Editing the text after making a rectangle shape.

Ready for export!

Final export:

In Gimp we were exploring the tootles that allow you to create text over an image. Additionally, we created a shape layer beneath the text to make it stand out.

It is a midterm 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  

MIDTERM #1 (red eye)

Here's the original photo in GIMP

Next we use the dropper tool to find a color code of a pixel at the edge of the red eye

 We next apply this color to the paintbrush and change the radius to much the eye. Then, we can start filling the eye in.

 To make this image realistic, I next dropped the radius of the brush and changed it to white. I then added to dots to emulate a camera flash reflection.

Zoomed out, looks good

Final product:

This midterm shows how to manually remove redeye from an image using gimp. The tools it offers were more than enough to fix this image. It is a midterm 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