Minecraft for History & Culture

We see from this news story that our world is changing.  Now you can enjoy landmarks all over the world on your computer screen.  This starts in Denver CO with a group of students creating a replica of Old Fort Bent.

Hopefully this will inspire students around the world to do likewise so we can all enjoy culture and idea's with each other. 

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal athttp://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc  

Discovering Bent's Old Fort

At the La Junta High School and Junior College in CO meet once a week to recreate a historic landmark in their town called Bent's Old Fort.  They are doing this using the immersive education program.  This way others around the world can enjoy the historic monument without leaving the comfort of their own homes.

The project is estimated to take about 2 years total.  Once the students learn how to build the fort in Minecraft they will then build it in Autocad 3D.  This is really cool because it will change the way people view the world.  Soon I will be able to climb the eiffel tower without even leaving my house!

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc   

Class 3: Exploring the Virtual World Framework (VWF).

I found that VFW was very slow on my computer.  It also took very long to load each world and in some cases I wasn't able to load it at all.  The graphics were average not any better then meshmoon.  However I did like how it was web based rather then loading it onto your computer.  Also in VFW you didn't have an avatar your name just came up as a caption.  I didn't really like this because it took away from the real life experience. 

This is me navigating in the bz flag demo, navigation was pretty easy using the arrows and the graphics weren't all that great. 

This is me attempting to enter the Afghan Village,  but my computer remained like this for 5+ minutes, this also happened with the grassy terrain demo.

After restarting my computer twice and waiting for 20 minutes this showed up trying to enter the command center.  I guess my computer just isn't cut out for this stuff.

Midterm 4

This is Midterm 4 - Taking "selfies" in Meshmoon. It is a midterm exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://immersiveeducation.org/@/bc/

This is my greeting card! I used the navigation tool at the bottom right of the screen to navigate and have my avatar face forward. 

Class 3: Entering Meshmoon Virtual Worlds

Me hanging out in the "Beneath the waves" world

Me touring the "German Fire Fighting Museum"

Me walking in a winter wonderland! in "Winter landscape"

Red Eye Image Formats

This is Class 3 Assignment  - Red-eye image formats. It is a midterm exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://immersiveeducation.org/@/bc/

redeye.gif

redeye.jpg

redeye.png

I don't really notice a difference between the png and jpg formats.  However the gif format seems to be lower quality, it almost looks like a painting. 

Midterm 3

This is Midterm 3 - Saving photos in popular web formats. It is a midterm exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://immersiveeducation.org/@/bc/

This is the picture as a GIF

This is the picture as a PNG

This is the picture as a JPEG

I  this assignment I exported the same image in different web formats.  I did this simply by adding a .gif,  .png, and .jpg to the end of each picture name before I exported it.