1. CREATING IMMERSIVE ART WITHOUT A PROGRAMMER: The first year for CANVAS, A Virtual Reality Environment for Museums Rose Marshack - Nicholas Duchnowski - Abby Watt Jennifer Jackson - Hank Kaczmarski Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

2. CREATING IMMERSIVE ART WITHOUT A PROGRAMMER: The first year for CANVAS, A Virtual Reality Environment for Museums Krannert Art Museum The Integrated Systems Lab at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

3. CAVE™ Technology C AVE A utomatic V irtual E nvironment Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

4. CANVAS Gallery C ollaborative A dvanced N avigation V irtual A rts S tudio Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

5. CANVAS Gallery Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

6. 3D Stereo Viewing Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

7. CANVAS Gallery Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

8. Creating Art with Programming Requires knowledge of: C++ or Python OpenGL Syzygy Distributed OS Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

9. What is KAMScript? Simple scripting language Built with C++/OpenGL Requires no programming experience Open-source Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

10. Example Scene Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

11. Creating Art with KAMScript This scene is created with 33 lines of KAMScript code. Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

12. A History of New Crayon Land (2007) Nicholas Duchnowski Sumi Land (2007) Nicholas Duchnowski

13. What is an Icon? - Gallery Created by University law professor William Van Hagey no programming experience first-time user of KAMScript Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

14. KAMScript Variations MiXTAPEStry (2006) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Duke University Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

15. KAMScript Variations Trees You Can’t Climb (2006) John Jennings Damien Duffy Nicholas Duchnowski Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

16. User Experiences User Difficulties unfamiliarity with the 3D coordinate system running KAMScript on the CANVAS unfamiliarity with scripting commands User Successes Van Hagey’s Gallery freshman discovery class Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab

17. Acknowledgements We would like to thank Kathleen Harleman, Benjamin Schaffer, Jim Crowell, Camille Goudeseune, Jim Farrar, Debbie Carrier, George Francis, David Weightman, and Robin Douglas for their support. http://canvas.uiuc.edu/KAMScript Krannert Art Museum Integrated Systems Lab