3DVE #7 ? Presentations ? Critiques for Project 3️⃣

Announcements

Observation next week, on March 25. Late submissions will be presented next week.
Next Tuesday: Prof D at upcoming Prison Education Event, sponsored by UAW (labor union)
Terrain Tutorial again next week?
Fisheye camera
New datasets on the 3DVE Data Sources list
Reminder: Policy on project lateness

3:10 Project 3 Presentations and Critiques
- Everyone can share their screens today.
- For each student presentation, I’ll ask two other students to speak: one student will offer a short appreciation and another student will offer a brief suggestion. All students can type additional thoughts in the chat.
- Please limit your comments to one of the following attributes:
  - MOOD: how do the pacing, movement, form, & color establish an environment?
  - INFORMATION: is a narrative or important data clearly conveyed?
  - AUDIENCE: would this animation potentially serve or not serve specific people(s)?
4:50 Break
5:00
- The State of Play Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds: Chapter 7: Virtual Crime and Chapter 9: Virtual Power Politics.
- If there’s time: Terrain Tutorial repeat (links in Class #6), New Data Sources, MeshLab, QGIS

Please take the next week to catch up with your Projects and Reading.

Technical Stuff:
- If you haven’t submitted Projects 2 and/or 3, PRIORITIZE THIS! Submitting the project(s) late is much better than not submitting them at all.
- Install MeshLab. This is a very useful app for converting 3D models.
Conceptual Stuff
- If you still need to catch up on previous reading, take this week to do so.
- Fun, short article on 3DVE and XR: “WandaVision Is The Matrix From the Machines’ Perspective” (Slate)
All Caught Up? Here are more optional exercises:
- Install QGIS. This is a very useful app for preparing geographic files. Try downloading the shapefiles for NYC building footprints and opening them in QGIS. If you prepare this file in black-and-white, you can them use them as a surface relief texture.
- Try downloading the Coronavirus Spike Protein (see the extra credit below to learn more about these proteins), then try using MeshLab to convert it into a model that Maya can read. If you want to learn even more about protein and DNA in 3D, check out new resources on the Data Sources page.

Next week we will do a brief session on molecules. You can prepare by watching Prof D’s Youtube playlist on Coronavirus vaccines and sending Prof a few paragraphs about what you learned.
Check the Projects +Extra Credit page for more EC options.