Final Presentation

vavo_final.zip (33MB)

Got an error when it was uploading, but it seems to be all there.

final submission – who has done what

Hi all, I have added this as requested so that the tutors/markers know who has done what. I have done this in a broad sweep (i.e. very general/hi-level), so I hope I don’t offend anyone. Please add/update accordingly if I have missed anything or if you don’t agree with the allocations.

Very generally we all worked in the following areas:

James – model making, photography

Moss – model making, photography, image post-processing

Earl – everything except the CG animations and 3d-models.

Neo – CG animations, movie editing and photography.

Hyuck – CG animations, and the 3d-model in the book.

Alicia – photography, image post processing, flash animations and presentation, book assembly.

Gareth – book assembly, photography, model making

Presentation Movie: Earl for the original movie capture. Earl, Alicia for the assembly/video editing. Gareth for the sound track. Hyuck for the crystal CG (Neo also worked on another crystal CG animation, but we ended up going with Hyucks version in the end).

Flash Presentation: James with crawling moss, and Earl with moving plant, as well as the overall presentation Flash file, was all done by Alicia, she is the Flash Queen!

Animal/Plant model portraits: We were all invoved in that.

I would also like to acknowledge Earls leadership role within the team; he was key in organising, and co-ordinating our efforts.

Cheers,

Gareth

music

A couple of websites I know for free music:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/

http://www.opsound.org/

images

http://alicia.zink.net.nz/411/photos/gallery.html

Made a basic gallery of all the DLF photos I have on my HD. I’ve uploaded small versions of all the photos,  but I have the full-res on me. Might be a good way to sort through them for the book.

Implanted RFID chip get virus

Checkout this link at the BBC. A man with an RFID chip implanted get a computer virus in the chip.

Potentials & Reabsorbtion

Potential outcomes for a future where we have an influence on the surrounding environment and in turn our environment influences us. The potentials show the saplings with an outcome of how they can be changed from their original purpose.

In times of unstable health our body communicates  with the surrounding habitat which releases biologically improved spores to increase health & vitality.

The network of consciousness is also strengthed through the connectdness of our DNA & the genetic code of the plant life around us, as seen in the visual output of the cytoscape program pertaining to the human hormones being mapped with the plant genetic code.

Organic Animations

Terrain Files

Hi Hyuck,

I have put a folder ‘hyuck’ on the T: drive. It contains some terrain files I have been having difficulty with. The starting file is wellingtoncc_sketchup.dxf, although there is a version wellingtoncc.3ds, and wellingtoncc.max, which are max versions of the file. I was thinking two things:

1. laser cut contour profiles, or
2. a plaster one where we use the mesh, extrude to surface, so we can cut something out of plaster on the C and C machine.

Let me know if any of that makes sense, otherwise talk to Earl. Are you in over the weekend?

Cheers,

G.

Living Architecture

Our vision of the future is a world where technology has become the translator between humans & their environment. We will be wiser caretakers of the one habitat that we have, this will require working together with everything that shares this world. We dont see ourselves as the only intelligent species worth protecting, but have come to realise that the only smart evolutionary step is working with natures processes.

Our habitats of the future will become fully reactive living environments. Nanotech capable of structuring biological growth will be able to repurpose natural systems to accommodate human needs, while still providing every need of the living environment. Construction processes of the past are obsolete & wasteful, all processes of the modern world will start at the cellular level like natural processes but will be influenced by the nano technology embedded at the cellular level.

Precedence for how we can visually explain our future