DXARTS 441 - 3 Space 1: Computer Modeling and Environments

SCHEDULE

[9/26] A little of everything to get you started!

[10/1] Reading & Lab Time Due - _Introduction[LINK] & _Intreface[LINK],

Work through Hammer & Nail Tutorial up to page 69 (pg 19 of the pdf) MUST BE DONE BY CLASS ON WEDNESDAY

[10/3] Continue Hammer & Nail Tutorial/Troubleshooting in Maya

[10/8] Homework One Due: Context
[10/10] What is a Polygon?

[10/15] Modeling continued... Reading Due: Simon Penny on VR
[10/17] Homework Two Due: Content

[10/22] Reading Due: Art of Maya, Modeling Chapter

Intro to VRML and the Cortona viewer.

Intro to Nurbs Modeling.

[10/24] Reading Due: Excerpt from, "Virtual Art" by Oliver Grau (On Ereserves Site)

Nurbs modeling continued...

[10/29] Reading Due: (useful for project) Cognition and the Visual Arts (On Ereserves Site)

Project One Due: World View

[10/31] MEL scripting

Additional Resources: Excerpts from Complete Maya Programming (On Ereserves Site)

[11/5] Introduction to lighting,Reading Due: Art of Maya, Digital Cinematography Chapter, pages 151 - 167

[11/7]Reading Due: Local/Global in Mathematics and Painting (On Ereserves Site)

Reading Due: Maya and Photoshop (On Ereserves Site)

[11/12] HOLIDAY!

[11/14] Crash course on advanced lighting, intro to shading and rendering.

[11/19] Homework Due: Illume

[11/21] Reading Due: Visual Knots: Concerning Geometry and Visuality in the Work of Marcel Duchamp (On Ereserves Site)

[11/26] Reading Due: Stereo Photography Tutorial (On Ereserves Site) and History of Lenticular (On Ereserves Site),
Additional Resources: World of 3D (On Ereserves Site)

[11/28] Homework Due: Surface / Reading Due: Synthetic Cubism (On Ereserves Site)

[12/3] Reading Due: Spatial Augmented Reality and Four Dimensional Space or Spacetime? (On Ereserves Site),

[12/5] Work on final project.

[12/12] Project Two Due: Augmented Virtuality - Critique in room #105 from 8:30 - 10:20