This week I volunteered at the IROC 2013 and spent majority of the time as a referee. It was a blast; here are some of the shots I was able to get in between events. I took hundreds of photos and will upload more when I can. Here is a link to some of my photos: http://www.3dteachers.com/2013/12/international-robotic-olympiadiroc-2013.html
So what does this have to do with 3D? My students have been doing some really cool experimenting . . . I will be sharing it soon. ~Cornell
Now I have been using Maya for over 10 years and I am still a hardcore Maya junkie and have no plan of switching. With that, every few years I give Blender a try and haven’t really been impressed, maybe because of my comfort level with Maya; I can navigate the interface with my eyes closed – literally. If you are not familiar with Blender . . . It is a free open source 3d modeling and animation application.
Check it out: http://www.blender.org/
Check out this Blender demo Reel, pretty impressive for an open source application.
It is a very simple, interactive, algorithmic, geometric web-based painting program. Enough said . . . Check it out.
My fun attempt . . .
Watch "A Day Made of Glass" and take a look at Corning's vision for the future with specialty glass. It is very cool!
OMG! Check out this Industrial Design concept video: Hankook Tire: The Future of Tire Design. VERY COOL!
Encourage your students to compete!
GOT GAME? Contest Details
Middle and high school students are invited to compete in our 2013 Spring
GOT GAME? competition.
Games must be completely original and created using
Game Maker or Game Maker Lite on Windows or Mac. (The Lite version is available as a FREE download!)
http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/windows
or
http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/mac
Prize Information:
The following prizes will be awarded for each division:
2nd Place
3rd Place
Submission Deadline:
11:59pm on
May 31, 2013
NO LATE SUBMISSIONS!
Winners will be announced
June 17, 2013
and the winning games will be posted on our website!
Students who have completed our GAME:IT course in school will have the skills they need to design a great game!
Check out our website for information on how you can offer GAME:IT in your high school!
Questions? E-mail
~3DTeacher
Download the vHelix plugin for Autodesk Maya http://www.vhelix.net/
The plugin is available for the 64-bit versions of Autodesk Maya 2011, 2012 and 2013 under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It is currently not available for other versions of Maya and not for the 32-bit versions. The plugin might work with other versions of Maya but that has not been tested. If you are interested in using the plugin with another version of Autodesk Maya, you will need to download the source and compile the module for your system.
The plugin is hosted https://github.com/gardell/vHelix The files hosted there are updated regularly with fixes and new features, but might also suffer from regression.
Installation instructions at the github repository are given in the given on the first page of the repository at https://github.com/gardell/vHelix or directly at https://github.com/gardell/vHelix/blob/master/README.md. The instructions contain a brief description of the organization of the files and how to enable Autodesk Maya to use the plugin. The links below point directly to the binaries required. Along with the binary versions below are some brief installation instructions as well.
Orbotix have created a new Sphero augmented reality plug-in for Unity, as well as making a new Sphero AR SDK available on Github – the world’s largest open source code sharing community.
This means that developers can simply insert their 3D models and create games/apps around them – all using the Sphero ball as a physical moving AR marker. There are already augmented reality games/apps available, such as Shaky the Beaver, launched in November 2012. << More >>
OMG! Very Cool, you need to check this out . . . keep in mind it is real-time rendering. It still hasn’t reached the other side of the Uncanny Valley yet, but this is real-time, but man they are getting closer. Man look at the eyes. It is better if you turn the voice off . . . Watch the Uncanny Valley, if you are not familiar.
OK, it is no Maya, but very cool . . . where is this technology going to go? This is a web based 3d modeling engine.
This PBS Special is a great video to initiate a discussion on the future trends of the 3d industry and its impact on our society. Honestly, it really gets me thinking about the future and the direction education needs to take. ~Cornell
I am always amazed on the latest innovations in 3d technologies. Check this out, printing live cartilage of a human ear. Wow, 3d technologies are just at its infancy and who knows it future. It might help to watch more Star Trek.
I am always amazed on the latest innovations in 3d technologies. Check this out, printing live cartilage of a human ear. Wow, 3d technologies are just at its infancy and who knows it future. It might help to watch more Star Trek.
Check out some of the inspirational images that CG Architect shared recently. CGarchitect is the leading community of architectural visualization professionals.
http://www.cgarchitect.com/
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