Announcements

• Late submissions will be presented today.
• Reminder: Faculty observation today. Thanks for turning your cameras on for a bit!
• Reminder: Policy on project lateness. Turning in a project late is better than not turning it in at all!
• Audre Lorde: Notes from a Trip to Russia

Agenda

• 3:10
  • Quick Technique Updates
    • Terrain color (with updated ElevationTest04 and color file)
    • Wrapping texture around a sphere, with a Sun STEREO satellite and Hyperwall example
  • MORE Project 3 Presentations and Critiques
    • Everyone can share their screens today.
    • For each presentation, I’ll ask for two audio comments and lots of chat comments. Please limit your comments to MOOD, INFO, and AUDIENCE.
• 4:50 Break 
• 5:00 
  • New datasets on the 3DVE Data Sources list
  • Manhattan CityVis Tutorial
    • Get Prof’s tutorial files here
    • Optional: download QGIS and/or the original data for NYC Building Footprints
    • Reference: Maya’s page on Displacement Attributes
  • MeshLab + Molecules. Note Prof’s Youtube playlist on Coronavirus vaccines (all videos are from respected journals, medical orgs and news outlets).
  • “WandaVision Is The Matrix From the Machines’ Perspective” (Slate) 
  • Blockchain Explainers
    • Article about Beeple artwork sale (WaPo, shared by Franky)
    • ACM Article (more technical, by CS folks)
    • WIRED 5-level explainer video (bigger-picture, by humanities folks). Note this section about “hype.”
    • Blockchains Use Massive Amounts of Energy—But There’s a Plan to Fix That (short article from MIT Tech Review)
    • For those of you who use Git and Github, blockchain “distributed ledger” concept is similar to concepts of distributed version control.

Assignments

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.
  • If you haven’t already, install Unity before next week’s class.
• Conceptual Stuff
  • Take a look at Part II of Semiology of Graphics, and then take a closer look at the section “The Retinal Variables” (the pages labelled 60-97). While the text is kind of dense, the pages are mostly graphics.
• HAVE A GREAT SPRING BREAK!! 🌳🐣🍭⛱️🌳🐣🍭⛱️🌳🐣🍭⛱️

Announcements: Extra Credit

• Check the Projects + Extra Credit page for more EC options. If any of your projects are late, I strongly encourage you to submit extra credit work.
• 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.
  • Challenge: can you import a molecule into Maya with its color? If so, send a screenshot to Prof for EC!