1. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 2007 Building a Virtual World Erik Brisson ebrisson@bu.edu

2. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 20072 Designing a Virtual Environment General Issues –Theme / story / message –Audience –Physical space / venue –Available technology –Development constraints

3. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 20073 Designing a Virtual Environment Design Issues –Overall design vision, visual/aural theme –Kind of space (interior, exterior, etc) –Navigability –Scale –Methodology –Tools

4. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 20074 Landscape Plans Used without permission from: http://www.medwaycoopbank.com/main/color_landscape_plan.jpg

5. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 20075 Landscape Plans Used without permission from: http://www.smartdraw.com/examples/preview/index.aspx?example=Residential_-_10

6. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 20076 World as set of simple objects

7. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 20077 Grid on ground plane

8. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 20078 Top-down view

9. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 20079 Plan drawing – on graph paper

10. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 200710 Add axes for Cartesian coordinates

11. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 200711 Plan drawing – on graph paper

12. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 200712 Specifying horizontal quadrilaterals Horizontal square (x0,y0) = (2,2) (x1,y1) = (4,2) (x2,y2) = (4,4) (x3,y3) = (2,4) On ground (height h = 0) hquad,x0, y0, x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, h hquad, 2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 0

13. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 200713 The description file hquad, 2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 0 vrect, 2, 5, 4, 5, 2 vrect, 4, 5, 4, 7, 2 vrect, 4, 7, 2, 7, 2 vrect, 2, 7, 2, 5, 2 vcyl, 0, 2, 0.5, 3 vcone, 2, -5, 1, 2 vrect, -1.5, -3, 0, -3, 2 vrect, 0, -3, 2, -1, 2 vrect, 2, -1, 0.5, -1, 2 vrect, 0.5, -1, -1.5, -3, 2 hquad, 2, -5, 4, -3, 2, -1, 0, -3, 2

14. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 200714 Project workflow hquad, 2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 0 vrect, 2, 5, 4, 5, 2 vrect, 4, 5, 4, 7, 2 vrect, 4, 7, 2, 7, 2 vrect, 2, 7, 2, 5, 2 vcyl, 0, 2, 0.5, 3 vcone, 2, -5, 1, 2 vrect, -1.5, -3, 0, -3, 2 vrect, 0, -3, 2, -1, 2 vrect, 2, -1, 0.5, -1, 2 vrect, 0.5, -1, -1.5, -3, 2 hquad, 2, -5, 4, -3, 2, -1, 0, -3, 2

15. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 200715 Texture mapping – the cylinder

16. BPC: Art and Computation – Summer 200716 Texture mapping – the cone?