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Finished Final Year Project

Simon — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:29:54 +0000

Presented in the last half hour of the first day… Here are a couple of photos I took while waiting after setting up in the middle room of Babbage floor 2.

The DVDs ready for submission:

Project Update

Simon — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:50:22 +0000

A typical picture update of the project from both aspects, the 3D and the physical interface.

Digital Atmosphere

Terrain Spikes

Testing the spike generator for visual feedback on the terrain:

Pulse Rate Sensor

Sensor in the Handle

A Slightly Better Video

Simon — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:00:04 +0000

Thanks to Alan for pointing me in the direction of CamStudio, a free video capturing software for your screen, which I have used to produce a slightly better video of my project’s 3D world.

Running both the software and DirectX at the same time was a bit tricky, slashing the FPS from around 120 to 40 but it’s better than using my camera to take a video of my laptop screen!

The water can be manipulated from any point, but for now it is set to only ripple from the centre. When I produce a final visualisation the position will vary, of course based on biofeedback influence.

Water Motion Preview

Simon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:27:20 +0000

Since still images don’t quite demonstrate the effects going on in the 3D side of my project, I decided to take a video recording of the liquid as well. It’s not great in terms of quality and could have been composed more fancifully but gives you an idea.

Experimenting with HLSL

Simon — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:13:53 +0000

After quite a lot of effort, adding, swapping and killing code I’ve started to get away from having HLSL turning everything a shade of utter grey.

The screenshots show my water mesh which will be one of a few features of this virtual environment which responds to biofeedback data from the avatar’s user.

Avatar Model

Simon — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:32:44 +0000

My Initial 3D avatar model idea mocked up in 3D:

The idea is to represent a more traditional aesthetic of meditation, providing a connection between the project and the field of biofeedback’s origins.

Also the development of the environment and the terrain mesh:

DirectX Coursework 1

Simon — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:12:01 +0000

Since I thought the fish looked a bit odd without its limbs I’ve decided to post another screenshot, this time of it actually running in DirectX and with the animated parts:

(Only after I took this and put it online did I notice the comments in the background…)

3D Fish is ready for DirectX

Simon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:28:27 +0000

A quick screenshot of my fish as a microsoft .x mesh file ready to be used in DirectX. The tail and fins are deliberately missing as they are separate models to be animated.

Fish Modelling (Part 2)

Simon — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:08:05 +0000

Here is a preview of just the fish body with no fins or eyes. The first image shows the already tubular shaped box before I modified the side view, and the second afterwards.

The fish body in three dimensions:

Modelling Fishies

Simon — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:20:59 +0000

So for my first Programming project I’ve decided to model a fish with moving fins as opposed to the ‘flying thing’ suggestion. But in order to do that I’ll need to make a DirectX fish model…

Here to help are my own goldfish, who it turns out are annoyingly camera-shy.

A good reference and tutorial for making a fish from scratch.