Transparopticon

Urban Planning For Purdue SL Community Virtual Architecture (Fun Draft)

tjrogers — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:43:26 +0000

I scoured the internet for a good map of how BM space is organized. I found this hand drawn map that is pretty cool. The original link is here.

Just to give an idea of the spatial scale of Burning Man…Here is an overlay of the Playa on top of Purdue. The “Man” being more or less centered in Academy Park.

: Burning Man Over Purdue Campus (Context Test)With Central Purdue Campus Cut Out255 Meters X 255 Meters (65,025 Meters Square)Framed Workspace Context

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: With Central Purdue Campus Cut Out

: 255 Meters X 255 Meters (65,025 Meters Square)

: Framed Workspace Context

: Ortho Top View Design Layout

: In Google Earth (Top View)

: Front View Entrance

: Ortho Front View

: Academy Park NorthEast Top Angle

: Isometric Perspective View

: Rear View

: Ortho Rear View

: Main Entrance (Shows Scale with Human Models)

: View out Towards a Looking Prism Tower

: High Roof View (Note Human Model on Right Brown Roof for sense of scale)

: Ortho Side View (a)

: Ortho Side View (b)

Media Display Prism (SnowFlake Lounge Demo in Google Lively)

tjrogers — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:23:54 +0000

I have been waiting for the “next” web 3D virtual world tool following Atmosphere & Second Life.
http://people.envision.purdue.edu/~tjrogers/

Though camera/geometry precision and self-building is not yet present, I had fun for a couple hours making my first room (based on my Media Display Prism Framework) and streaming six of my research-related youtube videos onto a virtual lively TV. Fun! Just in time to integrate my son Tristan’s first avatar into the mix.

The computer I used to capture assets for this video didn’t have the chutzpah to capture at very high frame rates, but I did the best I could given the available resources. There are a few video overlays to make up for some ugly spots, but overall, this exercise proved to demonstrate conceptual components of the MDP framework. I am even considering looking into using Lively as a platform for my dissertation–but that needs a lot of looking into.

Tristan Jade

tjrogers — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:35:03 +0000

Born Thursday, June 26th 2008 (3:23 pm). Weighing in at a hefty 9 pounds 3 ounces and 22″ tall. And remember, even though it’s too late to send him a prenatal email, you can still send him a post-natal email. You might have to wait a few years before he responds though… http://people.envision.purdue.edu/~tjrogers/tristan_jade/PrenatalEmail.html

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

tjrogers — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:57:37 +0000

Wow, wonderful work!

I [semi-regular hexagonal prism] Life

tjrogers — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:44:56 +0000

Did I happen to mention that I…

Visualization, Problem Solving, Attention, Transparency, and Power of Perspective

tjrogers — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:56:07 +0000

While doing some research on the transparent society, and the power of perspective I discovered this interesting GoogleTechTalk with Daivd Brin and Sheldon Brown.

It’s called “Third Millennium Problem Solving” and has some interesting coverage of topics. I have indexed the topics I responded well to, but this talk may provide some curious insights to others in our area who are interest in the role of visualization, attention-aware systems, and host-empowered methodologies that are coming down the pipe.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=g74qdM8Kgdw

05:00 The Transparent Society & Exorarium (Gaming/educational/educational museum setting)

06:00 Progress in Visualization:
-Lenses (telescopes/microscopes)
-Discovery of Perspective
-Printing Press

06:30 Visualization tools provoke Crises of Progress

09:00 How Modeling Techniques fit in to all of this…
both scientific visualization and games require
modeling techniques that are better at creating
worlds for modeling objective and subjective realities.
(Vision, Memory, Attention)

27:00 Importance of the Augmentation of Vision, Memory, and Attention

32:30 The Real Digital Divide (Asynchronous Realm vs Synchronous Realm) [of course my interests are in the future of the Synchronous Realm]

38:00 Fascinating Special Effect behind the scenes…

40:00 The Attention Economy and online issues such as prioritization effects

61:00 Pericles’ Experiment…Democracy

64:30 Daring to “Smart Ass”

66:00 It’s not Hap-pen-ing!

69:50 “Honeypot attractor states” & “blind spot distractions states”

70:00 “methods to orient their attentions better online according to
prioritization factors that mimic prioritization factors of real
life.” “A schematic to demonstrate the effects of orientation.”
“A generalized thing that goes out to a myriad hosts.”
“Generalized suite of Host-empowered methodologies.”

75:30 Lenses did exist in Roman times but they did not cause the shakeup in vision.

78:30 Inferiority complex with Rome…
They had additional Toys…
Perspective so Rocked the Intelligensia of Europe–Romans didn’t have this.

80:40 Original slide…Problem solving tools and looking for gaps in those
problem solving tools. Biggest gap: Helpoing the people to be
self-organizing, robust SmartMobby Resilient citizens.

83:00 Google provides a pre-conscious (analogy of human mind) for our civilization
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Brown_%28artist%29

CGT 581R Final Proposal: Development of Spatial Abilities and Learning Environments using Nested Perspective Projections

tjrogers — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:24:39 +0000

Final Proposal

Presentation Slides

(Blue Sky) Attending Purdue Classes in Real-time in Google Earth?

tjrogers — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:52:13 +0000

LargeImageLink

PDF Slides of my CGT_581R Proposal Presentation

tjrogers — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:34:14 +0000

Mohler, J. L. (2006). Computer Graphics Education: Where and How Do We Develop Spatial Ability?

tjrogers — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:26:59 +0000

Mohler, J. L. (2006). Computer Graphics Education: Where and How Do We Develop Spatial Ability? Paper presented at the Eurographics.