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Category Archives: 3D

NMC Symposium for the Future in Second Life

21 Oct Filed under 3D, Education. No comments.

2009 Sym­po­sium for the Future IT is time for another Vir­tual Sym­posia by the NMC (New Media Con­sor­tium). The sym­po­sium will com­pose of sev­eral diologs on push­ing the enve­lope of tech­nol­ogy and the poten­tial impacts on issues of global sig­nif­i­cance. Specif­i­cally the top­ics will cover … Read More →

Experimenting with Blender Software

Sculpty: with or with out salt? Using Blender

14 Aug Filed under 3D, Building Tools, Buy it, Education. No comments.

As I have com­plained about before, I find myself get­ting more and more aggre­vated with build­ing the FIT cam­pus. I have torn down so many build­ings and amphithe­aters try­ing to find the sweet spot between func­tion and design. Many of the edu­ca­tional sites are great in offer­ing free­bies … Read More →

image courtesy of siggraph.org (http://www.siggraph.org/s2009/galleries_experiences/emerging_technologies/details/?type=etech&id=143)

Virtual World Floors? Watch where you step!

10 Aug Filed under 3D, Building Tools, Education. No comments.

I have been try­ing to fol­low the feeds com­ing out of the SIGGRAPH 2009 con­fer­ence and came across a post dis­cussing a sur­face devel­oped that can be walked on to sim­u­late var­i­ous ground con­di­tions like ice or leaves. The visual and audi­tory feed­back seem to be enough … Read More →

Second Life in 3D!!

1 Jun Filed under 3D, Education. No comments.

The Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan 3D Lab  has devel­oped a Sec­ond Life viewer with stero­scopic sup­port.  This allows the viewer to see SL objects in 3D!!!! Wow.  The viewer has not yet been made pub­lic, but I know I’ll be line to check it out.  The lab offers … Read More →