Weekly Schedule
Fall 2011 Course Schedule
December 7: VIST SHOW
Week 15 (Tue.): System Rehearsal for VIST Show
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Week 14 (Thu.): Final Presentation
Week 14 (Tue.): System Rehearsal
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Week 13 (Tue.): Working Session
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Week 12Â (Nov. 15th and 17th) : Working Session
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Week 11 (Thu.): Workding Session
Week 11 (Tue.): Â Video Documentation
- Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- December 1: Final Project Presentation
- December 9 midnight: Blog, Documentation Video, 20 Images
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Week 10: Working Session
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Week 9 (Tue.): Forming teams, brain storming
- Assignment : Project Description, Conceptual Research, Technical Research, Schedule (Due:Â Thursday)
- Portfolio Due: Week 11(Tuesday)
- System Rehearsal (Nov. 29)
- Final Presentation (Dec. 1)
- VIST Show (Dec. 7)
- Blog, Documentation Video, Photos (Due: Dec. 8 )
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Week 8 (Thu.): Beginning of Final Project
Week 8 (Tue.): Project 2 Exhibition from 8pm – 10pm
- Meet in the studio at 7pm
- Pizza time until 7:30pm
- System set-up starts at 7:30pm
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Week 7 (Thu.): Working Session at the sites (8pm-10pm)
Week 7 (Tue.): Working Session
- System Rehearsal in your space
- 7:30 Shanna, Logan
- 7:55 Mike, Oscar, Owen
- 8:20 Stephen, Krista, Rachel
- 8:45 Amy, Laura, Cameron
- 9:10 Sage, Rhiannon, Jarrod
- 9:35 Chris, Brandon, Autumn
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Week 6 (Tue.): Working Session
Week 6 (Tue.):
- VPT Tutorial II By Morgan Jenks
- VPT Sound Control Patch created by Morgan Jenks
- Extending VPT: Serial(Arduino), OSC, Syphon demo by Hwaryoung
- Concept Discussion
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Week 5 (Tue.): 3D Projection Mapping Intro
- VPT Tutorial I By Morgan Jenks
- Box Mapping Exercise: Due 1pm on Thursday (September 29)
- Team exercise (2-3 people)
- Projection mapping creating a mood
- Use at least a couple of boxes (or found objects)
- Create a documentation video that shows the final result (30 seconds)
- Include sound effects to enhance the mood
- Post your video with descriptions on your blog
- by 1pm on Thursday (September 29)
Week 5 (Thu.):
- Box Mapping Exercises: Soothing, Mystic, Rhythmic, Mysterious I, Mysterious II, Anxious
- Project 2 Brief  pdf
- Find a space and experiment with a projector at night
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Week 4 (Tue.): System Rehearsal, Presentation Slides due
Week 4 (Thu.): Project 1 Presentations at Studio A
- Presentation Schedule
- 1. 2:20 – 2:45 Oscar, Amy, Rhiannon
2. 2:45 – 3:10 Stephen, Brandon, Logan
3. 3:10 – 3:35 Sage, Chris, Cameron
4. 3:35 – 4:00 Mike, Krista, Autumn
5. 4:00 – 4:25 Laura, Rachel, Shanna
6. 4:25 – 4:50 Owen, Jarrod - Blog due: September 24
- Next week (3D Projection Mapping) : install VPT 6.0 on your computer, form a new team (3 people max)
- VPT 6.0 Manual
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Week 3 (Tue.): Working Session
- Presentation Brief : pdf
- Studio A visit (two projectors will be installed)
- Presentation Order
- Oscar, Amy, Rhiannon
- Brandon, Stephen, Logan
- Chris, Sage, Cameron
- Mike, Krista, Autumn
- Laura, Shanna, Rachel
- Owen, Jarrod
Week 3 (Thu.): Visit IVC +Â Working Session
- We will leave at 2:20pm to visit IVC
- World Builder : Please watch this video. This can be a future of VR.
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Week 2 (Tue.): Projection techniques, concept discussion
- VIST405_week2_01 (slides)
- Inspirations: Mine control, Knee Deep, Grass, Shadow
- Details for Project 1: VIST405_Project1
- Always document all your process on your blog
Week 2 (Thu.): Stereoscopic display demo, working session
- Active / Passive Stereoscopic displays demo
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Week 1 (Tue.): Introduction, Setting up a portfolio site and or a blog
- Introduction
- Immersive and Navigable Spaces
- Legible City (1988-1991) by Jeffrey Shaw
- Osmose (1995) by Char Davies
- Hwaryoung’s websites http://immersion.iat.sfu.ca/, http://www.bodyinterface.com/VIST405_week1_01_noVideo
- Augmented Reality with Projection Mapping techniques
- Assignments: Set up your portfolio/documentation site(s) and prepare a 1 minute presentation for the next studio (you can use an existing template; Form a team of three people for the first project, “immersive and navigable space”
- Suggestion: When you setup your portfolio or blog, it is a good idea to obtain a youtube (vimeo) account and a flickr account for sharing videos, images, etc.
Week 1 (Thu.): Brainstorming ideas of immersive spaces
- Email your blog address and/or portfolio address to Morgan (mjenks@viz.tamu.edu) as soon as possible
- Assignment: Develop a single concept that you would like to develop for an immersive space, VIST405_week1_02_labexercise and post your concept on your blog by 10pm on Monday (September 5)
- Inspirations (Sorry, no time to show these in the studio. Please visit each link get some inspirations.
- Text Rain (1999)Â by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv
- Knee Deep (2009)Â by Emily Gobeille & Theodore Watson
- Messa di Voce by Golan Levin, Zach Lieberman
- IMPORTANT: You will need to create some relationship between the gestures of the user and the response of the system. This relationship should go beyond simple triggering (on/off). Include the quality of the motion and meanings of the experience in your design.
- DO SOME RESEARCH:Â Research on other projects that are related to yours and navigation movements from movies or books.
- Equipments
- Office Hour on Monday (September 5)
- Hwaryoung is available from 10am – 2pm.
- Morgan is available from 10am – noon.
- Please email us(hwaryoung@tamu.edu, mjenks@viz.tamu.edu)Â to schedule a meeting, by Sunday night.
- Room: C418B or C306A
