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DAI 575 Design
of Virtual Worlds - Jane Veeder, Instructor
Online Resources
10/24/03 Update
Design of Virtual Worlds Class
Web Sites
http://userwww/sfsu.edu/~jkv4edu
(hub for this site)
http://dai.sfsu.edu/vworlds2003s
http://dai.sfsu.edu/vworlds2002/compilation
Transmedia Sources
Films to rent: Existenz,
13th Floor, Strange Days, Being John Malkovich, Minority Report (Interactive
information board in Police Lab)
Web3D Technology Sources
Note: The use of any
of the players requires that you expand the memory allotment for your
browser program as large as comfortably possible
www.mindavenue.com
Browser Plugin for WIN/Mac. MindAvenue makes Axeledge (WIN/Mac OS X) Web3D
authoring program which will be our primary software resource.. Download
free browser plugin and access user support materials. Software is available
via www.journeyed.com as well as the Mindavenue site Store.
www.wings3d.com
Wings3D opensource and free polygon mesh editor. Note that the tutorials,
early-version manual, and other user support information including user
and developer forums, are all on the Web site, not in the software. Runs
on both Windows and MacOSX
www.vizx3d.com
VizX3D: Good low-cost basic modeling, animation, VRML/X3D authoring program
for WIN, free trial copy on web site
www.www.anark.com
Makers of Anark Studio - Web3D/2D authoring program. Includes 3D motion
graphics capabilities within a 2D, channel-structured paradigm
www.mediamachines.com
X3D (successor to VRML and compatible with XML) Browser Plugin for WIN
www.wings3d.com
Wings3D opensource and free polygonal modeler
www.modelsoftinc.com
MeshBase, 3D polygonal editor useful for modifying and polygon resolution
reduction. Download 60 day free trial
www.parallelgraphics.com
VRML Browser Plugin: Cortona VRML Client for WIN and Cortona MAC (v1.0)
for Macintosh
Several quality authoring tools for WIN.
http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/main.html
Atmosphere is an Adobe authoring product for creating "3D stage sets"
for virtual worlds.
www.shout3d.com
No browser plugin needed, uses Java3D on both WIN/MAC
Inexpensive authoring tool for WIN
www.trapezium.com
Source for Chisel, a VRML validation, geometry reduction, optimizer program
for VRML
www.quantumlynx.com/micromouse/
Source for Accutrans file conversion utility
www.pulse3d.com
Browser Plugin: WIN/MAC
Free Pulse Creator authoring tool for WIN. Fees for non-educational publishing.
Emphasis is currently on interactive corporate training via web3D.
Virtual World Design Sources
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/AHWA/Meetings/2000.CIHA/index.html
click on "Ancestors of the Historical Aspects of Virtual reality
and its Contemporary Impact"
by GRAU,Oliver
http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/580
IBM IBM's Realplaces Design Guide. Fascinatingly practical design guidelines
for online virtual 3D environments as workplaces.
Web3D Information Resources
www.cube3.com and
www.cube3/sfweb3d/
Larry Rosenthal's site which includes site for the SFWEB3D Group which
meets monthly at the DVGarage, 785 Market Street, Suite 200, downtown
SF.
http://web.mit.edu/jhmurray/www/HOH.html
Resource site for Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace,
by Janet Murray. Many links to related sites. Valuable.
http://web3d.about.com/
http://3dgraphics.about.com/ (3D graphics and virtual reality)
One of the About.com sites, features frequently updated information on
technology and industry related to all forms of 3D graphics, including
Web3D, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and online virtual worlds.
JOIN THIS LIST TO RECEIVE WEEKLY NEWS, REVIEWS, ARTICLES, AND NEW SITES
Sign up at: http://3dgraphics.about.com/gi/pages/mmail.htm
www.web3d-fr.com
French Web3D online newsletter. Some features are in English. Interviews
and Articles section has links to project sites. Also links to free resources
like 3D models.
www.virtuworlds.com/3DEZine/
Online magazine for 3D virtual worlds. Contains news about industry developments,
information about software, reviews and tutorials.
www.web3d.org
The site of the Web3D consortium, a group of companies and individuals
developing the next generation of VRML, X3D. Click on "Web Links"
for relevent sites.
www.web3droundup.org
An event showcasing Web3D appearing at a number of conferences during
the year. Combination Gong Show and Iron Chef, it features 5 minute Do-it-or-die
demos by companies developing either Web3D technology or content. Click
on the SIGGRAPH 2001 "Presenters" list for links to companies
producing either web3D technology or content.
www.macweb3d.org
Information source and download links for VRML and other Web3D applications
which run on the MacOS.
www.3dgate.com
3D magazine now lives only on the web. Frequently updated information
on 3D graphics applications, hardware, and software.
http://kb.hitl.washington.edu/onthenet.html
Virtual Reality resources on the net, project of the HIT Lab at University
of Washington. Frozen in 1999.
Commercial Online Virtual Worlds
www.virtualworldsreview.com
(names of and links to many online virtual worlds, reviews, etc.
www.there.com
- (WIN only) New (2003) online 3D virtual world (online chat, activity,
games site)
www.secondlife.com - (WIN only) New (2003) online 3D virtual world (online
chat, activity, games site)
www.toontown.com - (WIN only) New Disney-themed online 3D virtual world
(online chat, activity, games site)
www.worlds.net - (WIN only) 3D online community
www.cybertown.com (WIN only) 3D online community
www.activeworlds.com (WIN only) - oldest online virtual world. Has an
Eduverse supporting educational application worlds focused on topics such
as language learning and virtual PTA.
Free Assets
Sounds
http://www.altavista.com and narrow your search to "MP3/Audio"
www.a1freesoundeffects.com/noflash.htm
www.soundcentral.com
www.soundamerica.com
www.moviewavs.com
www.dailywav.com
www.cartoonwav.com
3D Models
http://shape.cs.princeton.edu/search.html
www.turbosquid.com
www.avalon.viewpoint.com - public domain models and textures
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~dproc/ - 3DS objects
http://www.dreamsandmagic.com - textures and objects
http://www.3dlinks.com/ - links to similar 3D graphics sites
www.3dbuzz.com - news and links to 3D graphics companies
and google "free 3D models"
Web3D Related Companies and
Projects
www.planet9.com - using game technologies for urban simulatio (SF)
www.manyone.net - developing a network of online expert information (SF),
aiming to be the PBS of the WWW
www.there.com - There Studios, makers of There, online virtual world (Menlo
Park)
www.lindenlab.com - makers of Second Life, online virtual world (SF)
www.vcom3D.com - Vcom3D, makers of simulation-based character e-learning
applications including signing characters
www.planet-earth.com - navigable geophysical databases
www.3dna.net - 3DNA, product for spatial organization of data. Free download
of player and sample world
See the
Showcase section of www.mindavenue.com
http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu - Advanced Computing Center for Art and
Design at The Ohio State University. See the Gallery > VRML Gallery
www.igda.com - International Game Developers Association
www.igda.org/sanfran/ - San Francisco local chapter of IGDA
Virtual Reality, and Web Art Project Sites
Steve
Wilson's 2002 Book Information Arts site
Go to bottom of page and click on "Artists Works Links" and
then click on categories of Virtual Reality and Web Art.
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson/
Recomended: Sheldon Brown, Maurice Benayoun, Jeffrey Shaw, Michael Naimark,
Benjamin Britton Rebecca Allen, Char Davies, Andy Best and Merja Puustinen,
Perry Hoberman, and any artists using the CAVE.
Sheldon Brown,
UCSD
http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~sheldon/index.html
Rebecca Allen, UCLA
- Bush Soul: Travelling Consciousness in an Unreal World
http://emergence.design.ucla.edu and http://www.design.ucla.edu/home.html
then click on People> Faculty > Rebecca Allen > Research and
Creative Work (Bush Soul piece, etc.)
Electronic Visualization
Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
(Virtual Reality research and graduate work; bridge program between engineering
and art; Developed the CAVE, 3-sided room and the Immersadesk, large immersive
panel)
http://www.evl.uic.edu/home.html
Go to Art>VR, then look at individual works and associated papers.
You can also go directly to Papers>Art for a listing.
Marcos Novak
Virtual Archtecture (VRML works)
http://www.centrifuge.org/marcus
Beyond Manzanar -
VRML Art Work
http://web3d.about.com/compute/web3d/
www.rhizome.org - portal for web art, jobs, information, exhibition
Virtual Reality / Augmented
Reality Research Sites
Electronic Visualization
Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
(Virtual Reality research and graduate work; bridge program between engineering
and art; Developed the CAVE, 3-sided room and the Immersadesk, large immersive
panel)
http://www.evl.uic.edu/home.html
Go to Art>VR, then look at individual works and associated papers.
You can also go directly to Papers>Art for a listing.
California Institute
For Telecommunications (joint research between State and Industry including
virtual reality along with all sorts of telecommunications projects. Research
facilities at UC Irvine and UCSD.
http://www.calit2.net
Rebecca Allen, UCLA
- Bush Soul: Travelling Consciousness in an Unreal World
http://emergence.design.ucla.edu and http://www.design.ucla.edu/home.html
then click on People> Faculty > Rebecca Allen > Research and
Creative Work (Bush Soul piece, etc.)
University of Michigan
Virtual Reality Laboratory (Football coaching simulator)
http://www-vrl.umich.edu/
Columbia University
Mobile Augmented Reality Systems
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/projects/siggraph2001-etech/
MIT Media Lab (click
on Research)
http://www.media.mit.edu/
Georgia Tech (Conceptual
Design Space), Atlanta
Interaction, useability, 3D and immersive environments design
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/virtual/CDS/
...and back up to "virtual/" to see listing of other research
projects
Human Interface Technology
Laboratory, Univ of Washington, Seattle
(Augmented Reality research and study)
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/onthenet.html VR
Resources Page
Institute for Simulation
and Training (Polyshop)
Military and law enforcement training
http://www.vsl.ist.ucf.edu/
North Carolina State
University (Virtual Environments Lab)
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/design/
Go to Design Research Lab then click on Project, then Vision Dome.
Stanford's Center
for Design Research (Telepresence Projects)
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/telepresence/VSEL.html
University of Alberta
(JDCAD)
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~graphics/vrlinks.html
University of North
Carolina (Graphics and VR Research)
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/ProjectIndex/CompGraphics.html
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/office/ Office of the Future Project
(videotape)
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~us/ Virtual Ultrasound/Laparoscopy Project
Virtual
Pet Sources
Nokia N-Gage:
http://www.n-gage.com/en-R1/gamedeck/
http://www.n-gage.com/en-R1/gamedeck/ngage_qd/techspex/index.htm
http://www.n-gage.com/en-R1/games (long list of mobile games, screen shots, etc.)
http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/0,,016-1412,00.html
http://www.n-gage.com/en-R1/support/NGageQD/userguides.htm (you can get a .pdf User Guide and look at the diagram of the display, and other information)
Mobile Games:
http://www.mophun.com/main_games.php?sid=e227687b6f98a5efcba25c6fcdc83afc
http://www2.mascotcapsule.com/Catalogue.asp
Some Research Links (from Google: virtual pet and voodoo, voodoo doll,
virtual voodoo doll):
Virtual Pet:
http://www.neopet.com/
http://www.virtualpet.com
http://www.virtualpuppy.com/
http://www.metapet.net/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Toys/Virtual_Pets/Tamagotchi/
http://www.mimitchi.com/html/tindex.htm
http://www.maniform.com/stuff/hamster.htm
http://www.adoptme.com
http://www.virtualhorse.com
http://www.talkingbuddy.com/index.html
http://www.froggyville.com/pickapet.html
http://www.LDW.com/lpp/index.html
Voodoo
Doll:
Bernadette voodoo doll:
http://www.wired.com/animation/collection/stalling_arcadias/bernadette2/
or http://www.slip.net/~arcadias/
http://www.wired.com/animation/archive.html?bernadette=1
http://www.slip.net/~arcadias/
http://www.voodooshop.com/products/dolls/
http://www.pdacity.com/apps/details.asp?AppID=60
http://www.t0.or.at/vvv/vvv.htm
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/voodoovince/firstencounter.htm
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Abuse_20Me_20Doll#1018463229
http://www.jars.com/classes/jresout.cgi?resource=225
http://thesims.ea.com/us/support/question74.html
Some Games Sources
• http://www.nintendo.com and search on “Nintendogs”, click on “play movie”
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20041110/falstein_01.shtml
Article “Natural Funativity” by Noah Falstein, Gamasutra game portal feature
Article “Meaningful Violence” by Henry Jenkins III and Kurt Squire http://www.educationarcade.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=40&page=1
and any other writings in the list at:
http://www.educationarcade.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=listarticles&secid=12
Tropical America by OnRamp Arts http://www.educationarcade.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=21&page=1
Article “Asymmetric Warfare: The Game” by Luke O'Brien, SF Weekly, 4/13-19, 2005
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2005-04-13/news/feature.html
• Art/Education/Training/Etc. use of Game “Mods” using Unreal Fantasy and other game engines. http://www.selectparks.net/
• Machinima.com – using game technology to make linear cinema
Game Play/Design Theory
• Game Ontology - Mateas
Games Research and Studies
• Games Studies – games as cultural content worthy of study http://www.digra.org
• Game Literacy – importance of literacy education as with other media forms
• Games technology and the mind, example: Continuous Partial Attention (CPA)
Game Design Discourse Sources
< see previous lectures and reading assignments for Online virtual worlds and The Real and online resources links >
Surrealism Links The Dada Server - http://www.smalltime.com/dada.html
The History of Surrealism, artists, examples - http://www.surrealist.com/
The History of Surrealism, artists, examples - http://www.bway.net/~monique/history.htm
A small virtual gallery of artwork by a number of noted surrealist painters. - http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Surrealism/index.html
An illustrated history of the surrealist movement from 1919 to 1939. - http://www.rit.edu/~dxf6067/surrealism/
Bibliography of Surrealism, including Women in Surrealism - http://www.madsci.org/%7elynn/juju/surr/bio/surrealist-bio.htmlSelected Surrealist Painting - http://biddingtons.com/content/pedigreesurreal.html
* The Surrealist Server - http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/juju/surr/
* The Exquisite Corpse Server - http://bluestem.hort.purdue.edu/ecs/
Andre Breton: What is Surrealism - http://www.skepsis.ch/lyrik/spuren2/breton/breton2.htm
Joan Miro, Surrealist Painter - http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/juju/surr/images/miro/miro.html
* Interactive Collages of Images and Excerpts from Breton's Poetry (click on the Hat) - http://www.paraethos.com/
A Sampling of French Surrealist Poetry - http://www.alb-neckar-schwarzwald.de/surrealism/surrealism.html
* The Virtual Dali - wonderful Flash-based gallery, bio, etc - http://www.virtualdali.com/
* Anaglyphs based on Dali's Painting - http://www.3d-dali.com/
S.F. Cacophony Society - http://www.zpub.com/caco/
Mad Scientist Network - http://www.madsci.org
The Surrealist Movement in the United States - http://www.surrealism-usa.org/
Related Interaction/Interface Development works of Andruid Kerne:
http://ecologylab.cs.tamu.edu/combinFormation/about.html http://ecologylab.cs.tamu.edu/
http://sigchi.org/chi97/proceedings/short-talk/ak.htm#U9
3D
Animation and Graphics Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_computer_graphics
Explanations of basic principles of 3D graphics
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/toc.htm
SIGGRAPH Hypergraph Computer Graphics Education Materials
Especially valuable: Sections on Animation (Camera and Character Motion), Color, and Lighting.
SIGGRAPH Quarterly Issues
****May 2001 Issue - Article: The Nuts and Bolts of Animation
Feb 2003 Issue: Education and VR Technology
May 2000 Issue: Web3D RoundUp
more at the online archives: http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter
http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~pacshop/lab/lab.html
Virtual Lighting Design Lab - good representations of the effects of combinations of key, back, and fill lights
http://www.3drender.com/light/chapter1.html
[digital] Lighting and Rendering, recommended book by Jeremy Birn
http://www.schorsch.com/kbase/glossary/index.html
Lighting Design Glossary
http://www.schorsch.com/kbase/resources/fun.html
Fun with Light - non-digital interactive learning
Principles of Animation
Comet Cartoons - Explanations and QT movie demonstrations of good and bad examples
About.com Glossary of Animation - Explanations and animated demonstrations
SIGGRAPH - QT movie demonstrations
EVL Univ of Illinois - Explanations and illustrations
SF Chapter of the International Animated Film Association (other links here)
About.com / Animation - Informational resource on many aspects of animation
Book: The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion, and Internet Animators -- by Richard Williams
Book: Timing for Animation -- by Harold Whitaker, John Halas
Book: Cartoon Animation (The Collector's Series) -- by Preston Blair
Book: The Animation Book : A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to 3-D Animation -- by KIT LAYBOURNE
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