Sense & Scale | A site to explore cities, machines, and people at varying senses and scales. Updated by Arlene Ducao, with content from classes at NYU, CUNY, and MIT.

3DVE #5 🐫 Project 2️⃣ Coding 💬 Constellations 🌌

Announcements Please be prepared to discuss issues you’ve encountered this week regarding 3DVE. NEW Items in the 3DVE Menu: Data Sources Some of you still need to submit Project 1. You’ll receive a DM today. Agenda 3:10 Project 2 screening. Did you run into any issues? Project 2 troubleshooting Scripting MEL Overview Looking at built-in […]

3DVE #4 🛼 Animation 💫 Scripting 📜

Announcements Please be prepared to discuss what you’ve been up to this week regarding 3DVE. NEW Items in the 3DVE Menu: Recordings Projects + Extra Credit Coming soon: Data Sources New Office Hours link for March-May will be emailed later today. If you heard from me yesterday: please submit ASAP; letter grades are dropping. Agenda […]

3DVE #3: Modeling 🛹 Fab 🏂 More Data 📊

Announcements LAST CHANCE: Please fill out the 3DVE Intake Form. Please be prepared to discuss what you’ve been up to this week regarding 3DVE. In the chat, please share if you have any questions about last week’s assignment. Zoom Agenda 3:10 Welcome to new students, Discord and WhatsApp. Note on missing class and emailing me Notes […]

3DVE #2: Basics🍦🍨🍦🍨

Announcements If you haven’t already, please fill out the 3DVE Intake Form. Please be prepared to discuss what you’ve been up to this week regarding 3DVE. In the chat, please share: Any issues you had installing Maya. Any questions about the First Time Tutorial. Any questions/comments on this past week’s reading. If you’re a new student, […]

3DVE #1 🌚🌞 Syllabus, Software, Intros, Q&As, Maya project and navigation

Announcements Welcome! If you find yourself waiting: Please start filling the 3DVE Intake Form. As we discuss the syllabus and the course, you are welcome to edit this form. Please start making sure you have the required software discussed in the syllabus, including Maya and a 3-button mouse, Unity, Adobe CC, and a decent text editor. […]

3DVE Projects + Extra Credit

All projects are due BEFORE class begins. Projects 1-4 are now at the bottom of this page. Project 5, Due May 20. No late projects will be accepted unless you have an accommodation from the Office of Accessibility. For this project, I would like to see you build on one of your previous projects (1-4). […]

3DVE Data Sources (So Far)

For Project 3, you’ll be required to use data from one of the following data sources. If there’s a data source you’d like to use that’s not on this list, just email the data source URL to Prof D for approval. Textures NASA star maps (good for backgrounds) Sun STEREO satellite and Hyperwall examples Earth […]

3DVE 📼 Class Recordings

Email Prof for password Feb 4: Email Prof for link Feb 11 Feb 18 Feb 25 March 4 (with a 2nd recording from after-class office hours) March 11. Note that the recording goes silent at about 01:20:00 since we go into 1-on-1 sessions at the time. We also did a fast Terrain Tutorial during after-class […]

3D Virtual Environments 🦠🕋🪐🧬 Syllabus, Spring 2021

Hunter College, CUNYMEDP 36500 – 01 (5598), HN 1001FThursdays, 3:10 PM to 6:00 PM01/29/2021 – 05/25/2021Online – Synchronous Professor Arlene Ducao, arlduc [at] mit.edu (temporary)Office Hours: 5:00 – 5:30PM on Wednesdays AND 6:00 – 6:30 PM on Thursdays. I will share my office hours link via email. This course combines practical instruction in 3D environment […]

Making and Manufacturing as Socio-cultural Practice: Book list

Making and Makers To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure by Henry Petroski Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers by Mark Hatch Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in […]