Greetings from NYC

I'm a little concerned to see several people didn't post to their blogs. NO POST NO CREDIT

The glass apple cube goes underground to an amazing apple store!







-- Posted from my iPhone

IMD I (Thursday and Friday)

You will need to complete the following activities over the next two days:

1. Open you castle file and save it with a new name. Open the renamed file and add texture to the model. Make sure you use the mapscaler modifier to scale the textures you have applied. Don't go nuts with bold color. Make sure the amazing geometry you created is not overpowered by texture.

2. Complete and post your audio activity from earlier this week.

If you have extra time add texture to your robot model and post rendered images to your blog.

TO RECEIVE CREDIT YOU MUST MAKE A POST ON THURSDAY AND ANOTHER POST ON FRIDAY SHOWING PROOF OF WHAT YOU DID IN LAB. Screen cap or render your work and post at least one image. Write a two to three sentence description of what completed.

IMD II (Thursday and Friday)

You have three activities to complete while I'm gone:

1. Complete the low poly character tutorial packet. The tutorial is also available in the Max help menu. You will need the blue reference images above for the project. These are saved in the public/students/fitzer/low_polygon_modeling folder.

2. Complete the Audio reading / questions post here:
http://imdatswca.blogspot.com/2009/09/imd-i-audio-production-basics-part-1.html

3. Post a rendered image of your chess set on your blog.

TO RECEIVE CREDIT YOU MUST MAKE A POST ON THURSDAY AND ANOTHER POST ON FRIDAY SHOWING PROOF OF WHAT YOU DID IN LAB. Screen cap or render your work and post at least one image. Write a two to three sentence description of what completed.

IMD I - Get Your Robots Ready!

This will be the last day for robot construction. Tommorow we start adding textures.

IMD II - pro textures, mental ray, and scale.

Get ready for notes, there is a lot to cover!

Look at the following examples of the mental ray rendering engine in Max

Frosted blue and clear glass 1 side of reflection

Frosted blue and clear glass 6 sides of reflection


Mental Ray Daylight on white standard texture

Audio Production Basics part 1

As we start working with audio production we need to look at the basics of sound theory. Please read the following article:

http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/01/

(there are several pages) Answer the questions in a word document, then post the questions and answers to your blog.

Add an audio diagram page to your table of contents in your composition book, you will draw several diagrams and illustrations in this assigment.

This assignment must be posted to your blog BEFORE FRIDAY

You will need to use google to answer question 4 and 5.

1. What range of frequencies are detectable to the human ear?

2. Define Audio

3. Audio production involves what four elements of audio?

4. List 10 careers in audio and list a local company for six of the career fields

5. List three careers that need to have an understanding of audio production concepts

6. A person rings a bell and another person hears the sound. Draw a diagram (in your composition book) of how this sound is created, transmitted, and received by a human

7. What is a waveform

8. Is sound two dimensional or three dimensional?

9. How do variations in sound pressure correlate to a waveform diagram?

10. Illustrate (in your composition book) the difference between wavelength, amplitude, and frequency.

11. Diagram (in your composition book) in phase, 180deg out of phase, and different wave and how they interact.

12. Define transducer

13. Define amplifier

14. Define signal processor

15. Diagram (in your composition book) the 3 part model as described in the article.

IMD I - Happy Monday

Today you will have lab time to work on your robot model. I will be grading blog and castles today!