Static-Image Interface Using Shockwave Flash
Random Text Assembly Demo
Adding Sound to Virtual Worlds
Animation Examples
Assignment 6
Results from Assignment 5
Testing Single-Image QTVR Export From Bryce
Producing No-Pano Worlds
Demo: Navigating a Virtual World Without Panoramas
Jessica's Animation Example
Dealing with Troublesome (Windows) Panoramas
Advice on the Final Project Proposal
Samples of Bryce/QTVR Panoramas
Don't Use the Single-Image QTVR Export in Bryce!
Shooting a Panorama in a Bryce Landscape
Assignment 5
Results from Assignment 4
Samples of Bryce Landscapes
Creating Landscapes in Bryce
Assignment 4
Results from Assignment 3
Useful Tips for Working in Bryce
Samples of Bryce Objects
Building and Shooting Objects in Bryce
Assignment 3
Making Scenes
QTVR/HTML Template
Assignment 2
Stitching panoramas
Using the discussion list
Sample panoramas
Assignment 1
Syllabus
Readings and Assignments
REVISION 1 - September 15
| Sep. 15 | Holtzman, ch. 2
Assignment 1 due |
| Sep. 22 | Turkle, chs. 1-2: "A Tale of Two Aesthetics" and "The Triumph of Tinkering" |
| Sep. 29 |
Hayles, ch. 10: "The Semiotics of Virtuality" (photocopy) Hayles, ch. 11: "What Does It Mean to Be Posthuman?" (photocopy) Assignment 2 due |
| Oct. 6 | Turkle, ch. 4, "Taking Things at Interface Value"
Johnson, "Bitmapping: An Introduction" (photocopy) Screen Wax: Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees Assignment 3 due |
| Oct. 13 | Turkle, ch. 5: "The Quality of Emergence"
Keep, "The Disturbing Liveliness of Machines" (photocopy) Explore WAXWeb in class Assignment 4 due Presentations by Elka Phillips and Wendy Queen |
| Oct. 20 | Derrida, "The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing" (photocopy)
Proposal for Final Project Due Presentation by Jessica Furé |
| Oct. 27 | Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" (photocopy)
Assignment 5 due Presentation by Louise Penberthy |
| Nov. 3 | Turkle, ch. 6: "Artificial Life as the New Frontier"
Presentation by Margee Morrison |
| Nov. 10 |
Bolter and Grusin, "Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation" (photocopy)
Presentation by Sara Friedman |
| Nov. 17 | Bolter and Grusin, "Mediation and Remediation" (photocopy)
Assignment 6 due |
| Nov. 24 | Class does not meet. |
| Dec. 1 | Ryan, "Cyberspace, Virtuality, and the Text" (photocopy) Nunes, "Virtual Topographies: Smooth and Striated Cyberspaces" (photocopy) Demonstration: animation in Bryce |
| Dec. 8 | Baudrillard, "Simulacra and Simulations" (photocopy)
Demonstration: object movies |
| Dec. 15 | Final Projects Due |