Modeller 32

With Modeller 32, you can create a version of yourself in a cartoon or digital version,

You can set up the software so you change the characteristics
of the initial character or you can upload pictures of yourself and
transfor a version of youself







You can see the color skin or you can change that.










You can also change the sex of your charachter and select a different race characteristics








On the next 3 pictures you can see how I changed the same woman playing around with all the different options the
problem gives you.

Sunday April 13th

TODAYS CLASS IMAGES where taken at splenda's world.

In this world we found a pool that had a diving boar from where your avatar could jump and dive. What I found very fund was the fact that you could select the way you where going to dive, and there where very profesional diving jumps. On the left you see my avatar jumping from the blue board.





On this image, my friend is just about to jump, all you had to do is to right click on the tip of the board and then click dive and select a mode.

MAYA

The homewor for todays class, was to download and check some of the maya tutorials. Maya is an

"Award-winning Autodesk® Maya® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution. Because Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (application programming interface), or one of two embedded scripting languages. This, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D tools, means Maya enables you to realize your creative ideas."

source: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=7635018&siteID=123112



Even though I had already experimented other similar software (3dmax), I found MAYA also very complex because you are not working with just one dimension, but to make your objects real you have to pay attention to every side, position, depth width and in many cases movement.



On the left, I was watching one of the first tutorials












3d buzz is a website that contains tutorials and forums to learn different softwares including MAYA








After I had read the basic readings I decided to start building something, so I selected a tutorial where you are supposse to build the image on the left.






I first started by building the base of the building









Then I created one little box and then a column and duplicated the
little box and place the copy on top of the column










I did not finish the tutorial, but I had already learned and experience how to start building, and this is what I got... I will
continue the next sunday

GOGGLE EARTH 2

Later on during our class, we had the opportunity to explore more Google Earth
and below you can see the other images I shot during my class










When you are navigating around the globe in google earth you see different Icons, that you can click and different information or files pop up. Some of the icons are linked to information posted from nonprofits that help those areas. For instance I went to Africa, and there are a lot of organizations such as WWF to help animals and others to help people that have their links to information to alert and inform the people about animals or people that live in those areas. I even found journal of a scientific that have been studying the monkey on the picture below -->





According to the pop up window, this person have been following and studying that monkey since it was born, and it gives you information about it and pictures.









I dont think geography classes can be boring anymore, as they use to be, I love to see the 3d image of the globe it is fun, very impresive and real.

The potential Google earth has is huge, not only for finding places, but for teaching, or for communicating.

GOGGLE EARTH

Google earth is a virtual globe on the internet that thanks to satellite images can show images of different places around the world.








With a simple move of the mouse you can zoom in or out your interested place. You can also introduce an exact address and it will take you there.

















When you get to the place you want, camera icons, indicate that there are picture files that you can open,












and if you want to get more information about the place, you can even open the wikipedia link.












Right Now the last addition to the software is the google sky, which allows you to navigate throuout the sky.

The potential, or not, for "addiction" in both SL and WoW

It is amazing, but I do think both games can be addictive, and unfortunatelly kids are more
vulnerable to this addictions than adults and it should be classified as a psychiatric disorder, just because then people would be more carefull about how much videogames they loved one played.

If I have to select one, I would say Second Life has highest posibilities of being more addictive than the others because i believe it is a game that would be more apealing to everyone, at least I found it more appealing, it is fun, and I dont have to kill weird creatures. Also I noticed that there is people who have stores, and live from Second Life.

1) Second Live vs. World of Warcraft

after have played Second Life and WOW, the major differences I found where 3.

The First difference is flexibility. In my opinion Second life is more flexible, in the sense that you can create your own character, your own environment, or land. In contrast, in WOW you select from list of races, and you can in a more limited way, personalized your character, but you are not completly free of creating a totally new character. Also you have to play in a world it is already developed, and you dont have the ability of creating your own or modifying the one that already exists.


The Second difference is the final goal of each software. In Second life, the goal is socialization. It is like a chat, where you can meet people around the world, in contrast with WOW you are not competing, to get the gold, or you are not trying to get to the end of the game. In contrast WOW is a game, you are competing and you want to kill the most and complete every level to get the gold or complete the game.

The third difference is the similitud with reality. Second Life is really a second life, the activities are activities common to everybody, it is easy to understand and it is more likable, because we all know how to live and almost the same rules of life are the rules of second life. In contrast in WOW you are doing something you would probably never do in real life, kill for example...


At the end, I liked SL better, and I believe more people will feel more confortable with it.

WOW

Last week I was playing a Computer name call World of Warcraft, also known as WOW, To start you need to sign in and create your character, and select your race, your sex, and a lot of other physical characteristics...
I selected to be a Dwarf as the rest of my classmates and my name is MariaP. I found this game's graphics more impresive, than Lord of the Rings, they really paid attention to details, and every land I visited was very well design, and developed.




While I was playing the game I had to encounter different creatures, and on the right image you can see one of those moments.









I met some friends who where playing together, and they were actually very funny because they were different races, but were going everywhere together








This is an Image on another time when I killed another creature.

I find very interesting who this new computer games are not only games anymore, they are a new way of network.. you can find people and then form groups and play within their team. I did not have the oportunity to play with my classmates but I found some great people who made me part of their group and tought me some tricks.

What is ftp? and How it Works?

1) What is ftp?
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. According to wikipedia FTP is "a network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network, such as over the Internet". The way I see it is that FTPs are folders located at specific locations on the internet where you can upload and save files depending on the capacity of the folder. Since this folder is located inside the network of the internet, everybody with a computer, with internet conection and sometimes with a username and password can have access to this folders.

2) Why use ftp? One of the most popular methods to transfer data are emails, but most of the time, you are limited because they can only transfer few and small files. The size limitation is one of the reasons why many people prefer to use FTPs. With an FTP folder, you just copy and paste your files, and the size limit does not exist. In addition, any other person, anywhere in the world with access to a computer and internet conection can find the folder and copy and paste the files into his or her computer.

3) What type of application do you need to connect to an ftp server? There are many ways to connect to an ftp server, if you have a pc and windows, you can just type on your browser the address of your ftp server, for example on the image below I typed ftp://ftp.taxicreative.com/ internet explorer:

It will pop up a window and you have to introduce your user name and pasword...when you get in you will see all the subfolders and files saved there. The Second way to access an ftp server is by using a ftp program, such as winscp, fetch, etc, there are many... and you just download them and introduce the ftp address, your user name and address and a two windows will show the ftp folder on the right and the files of your computer from where you can drag and drop or copy and paste on your left. 4) what connection information or credentials do you need to connect to an ftp server? You just need your host address, or your ftp address - ftp://ftp.yourhost.com/ and most of the times a user name and password