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Virtual navigation system.
The Virtual Navigation System for CMSI, started in fall 1996, involves designing and developing a computer-based exhibit for the entry hall of the museum at which patrons can participate in an electronic interactive multi-media walkthrough of the facility. Research directions include human interface issues, modeling, rendering, animation, and interconnecting with multiple media resources. The first part of this three phase project included computer visualization assistance for both the building and the new exhibits. The individual exhibits and the elements of the building have been modeled and rendered in preparation for the second phase. As a part of the research, we are exploring user responses to navigation protocols and metaphors of navigation. A future element may be developed to allow Internet connectivity.
Visualizing urban interventions.
This project with the City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning, is to provide a 3D computer database and time-transient visualizations of the existing and proposed urban conditions surrounding three transit oriented districts. The first phase involves modeling and visualization of the existing urban fabric extending one-quarter mile from each of the three rail transit station locations. The visualizations will include current conditions, followed by time-progression visualizations at regular intervals over a period of the next few decades, illustrating the likely results of current planning guidelines. This project is a collaborative effort with Kate Diamond and Robert Harris, begun in fall 1996.
The design and visualization of a single-family residence in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The design and visualization of a single-family residence in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This project includes the use of the WWW as a method of communication to a distant client and visualization work which included three-dimensional design, color analysis, and digital photomontage. The work is placed on world-wide web pages and discussed through electronic mail. The initial design phase and early visualization of this project is completed. The project is expected to be built in the beginning of 1997.
MOCA exhibit animation for Angelil/Graham Architects.
Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm involved modeling, rendering, and animation for the Angelil/Graham exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. The site included a rail station, post office, and several multi-story housing units. This exhibit and publication is traveling to four museums across the country. The architecture project has been built.
Helping artists visualize their creations.
A visualization project for the Barcelona Olympics, this project involved simulation of traveling through an existing high-speed automobile tunnel with specific interest giving to showing a proposed mural on the side walls of the tunnel. A part of the study included working with the artists, the Latino Mural Collaborative (Wayne Healy and Roberto Delgado) and Ronald Rose to discover and demonstrate to themselves the effects of seeing the mural at high-speed and at a sharp angle at eye-level inside a car. This was intended to help the artists make changes and improvements to the mural and to demonstrate to the funding agency how the mural would be perceived. October 1992.
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