Announcements

• Please be prepared to chat during 1-on-1s today.
• Please create an account on USGS EROS. You don’t have to share your email or any other personal info to make an account. We will play around with this today.
• A Poem: A Litany For Survival by Audre Lorde
• WHY ARE WE DOING THIS CODING STUFF? See my new “Teaching Philosophy” section in the syllabus.
• Observation on March 25

Agenda

• 3:10
  • Digital Universe and Constellation Vis
    • Constellation Jams: Steps to get from stars.speck and constellations.speck to Ursa Minor and Orion constellations in Maya.
  • 1-on-1s. I’ll speak with each of you 1-on-1 while you work on your project. If you need or can provide help on the tech topic, you can pop into a separate breakout room. If you help another student and they verify that you significantly helped them, you get 1 pt of extra credit added to your overall grade.
  • Fisheye camera
  • Terrain Tutorial
    • You can start with Prof’s example Maya files
      • If you want to get new terrain elevation data: USGS Earth Explorer > GMTED2010
      • Adjusting Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) in Photoshop > Level-adjusted Tiffs
      • Old yet handy tutorial on connecting a texture as bump and displacement map
      • Adding clouds through Fluid Effects
• 4:55 Short Break (since most of today is freeform)
• 5:00 Wrap-up

Assignments

• Technical Stuff 
  • Project 3 is due before class next week. We will prioritize a more formal critique in the first part of class, in which I’ll ask each person to critique one other student’s work.
  • Please create your own terrain by going through the surface relief section of the Maya manual with a DEM. You can acquire a new DEM from USGS Earth Explorer or use one of the level-corrected DEMS from class. You can also can add a simple fluid by importing a fluid example.
• Conceptual Stuff
  • Getting back to the reading: Please finish reading one or both of the following from The State of Play Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds: Chapter 7: Virtual Crime or Chapter 9: Virtual Power Politics. We will prioritize this after project critique next week.

Announcements: Extra Credit

• Check the Projects +Extra Credit page for a running list of EC options.