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Encompass Editing Video

Encompass is an immersible 3D environment to grasp the building blocks of all 3D computer-generated graphics. It allows the user to create a 3D scene using basic shapes such as triangles and rectangles that make up all large 3D models. A cybernetic system results that guides the user’s actions with instant feedback. The ultimate goal is to create a palatable scene and allow the user to embrace the ability of digitalization of real-world objects that is similar to those used in professional composition software. What is different, however, is that very little knowledge is necessary to start this process and the results are immediately visible. Encompass is furthermore based on free-to-distribute libraries for the JAVA programming language is therefore free to share and reproduce.

Download documentation: MiniProject2_JansChris.pdf

Download code: MiniProject2 JansChris.zip

Trolleybot Jun 2, 2011

The Trolleybot automates a simple household object that is non-threatening and easily-controllable by remote control. It may come in a variety of sizes, from the miniature prototype model that can be used on the tabletop to distribute paperwork at a business meeting or the salt shaker at the dinner table, to the heavier trolly model that may be used to house a home theatre system for easy positioning around the house or patio. It can add value to any home through a multiplicity of designs and applications. Especially the elderly and infirm can benefit from the basic Trolleybot tray model that will transfer meals or other heavy objects between rooms with minimum effort. The Trolleybot illustrates that technology can add value to many lives without being constricting to the user.

Full Documentation and code: http://www.digitalarts.wits.ac.za/wiki/index.php/File:Miniproject4jans.zip

 HUDC1. 3 March 2011. WYSIWYG. Using Bourriaud’s relational aesthetic, coming up with a post-optimal object which does not conform to historic presumptions of object design. The use of wood (“bucky ball blocks”) and binding wire (“superflexy”) allowed for easy construction (“wireframe”) and wrapping paper finish (“texturing”). Bucky balls point to a tenet of universal object design which resemble atoms and molecules. Superflexy is satiristic with the intention of bringing attention to the fact that using your hands to design is easy and anybody can do it. The wireframe concept indicates that the design is still up for review and only designed using the available tools (bucky balls and superflexy). The “texture” give the object a shiny veneer which indications that this is a prototype and the final materials for contruction is to be decided (most likely aluminium).

Full Presentation hyperlink: https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ARJ6KOq1oC3pZGZ6djM4aHpfM2R4NWIyemNn&hl=en&authkey=CPb7rIQI

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