DIGM 680 - Proposal Defense Dry Run

DIGM 620 - Week 5 Review

Here is a piece of concept art trying to depict the mass-mortality event. Here juveniles are trapped in a rapidly disappearing pool.

Here is one of the adult specimens that I generated photogrammetrically.

Here is a look at a slab of juveniles from the 123D Catch Desktop Interface.

Dave had suggested I invest a little more time into R&D of the rig to facilitate development down the road. Here I've modeled a very simple Bothriolepis in order to test out some of the properties of the hybrid animation/ontogenic rig.

Here are some rough anatomical sketches. I'm just trying to get aquatinted with all the armor plates and their positions.

Hours:

Meeting with Dave (.5 hr)
Meeting with Stefan (.5 hr)
Attempts to use ARC3D Serive (1 hr)
123D Processing (1 hr)
Concept art (3 hr)
Prototype rig (2 hr)
Readings (3 hr)

ANSP 21818 & 22336 Models

Speed Paintings

DIGM 680 - Week 5

Parry, Ross, ed. Museums in a digital age. Routledge, 2010.

Cameron, Fiona. "Museum Collections, Documentation, and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms." Museums in a Digital Age (2010): 80.

Frost, C. Olivia. "When the Object is Digital: Properties of Learning."Perspectives on object-centered learning in museums (2002): 72.

"...impact of the object may diminish significantly without the surrounding background necessary to understand its origins. "

Huhtamo, Erkki. "On the origins of the virtual museum." en PARRY, Ross: Museums in a digital age. London: Routledge (2010): 121-135.

-Exhibition design as a new medium

-avant-garde artists finding new ways to present art

Gammon, Ben. "Visitors' Use of Computer Exhibits: Findings from 5 Grueling Years of Watching Visitors Getting It Wrong." Informal Learning 38.p1 (1999): 10-13.

-There is no clear ‘average’ time that visitors spend at computer exhibits

-30-60 words per screen

-Restart button always cause problems

-Three modes of computer use/ three modes of behavior

-Purposeful use - people carefully and thoughtfully searching though the software looking for something specific.

-Exploratory - people flicking through pages looking carefully to find out what is there

-Playing - people rapidly moving through the different screens at random to see what happens

Paleo Ontogeny in the News

While the discovery of this new baby Parasaurolophus is really exciting, I was most impressed with the discoverers' multimedia approach to presenting their findings. A dedicated website was set up (http://dinosaurjoe.org/) to house all the content related to the actual discover, the bones, the reconstructions, and the science. They even upload the 3D scanned material onto the very handy p3d.in service that I have been using.

I'd be curious to see what sort of feedback the discoverers received from this  multimedia release.

3D reconstruction by Tyler Keillor


Illustration by Lukas Panzarin

3D model of full skeleton
reconstructed skull

Farke AA, Chok DJ, Herrero A, Scolieri B, Werning S. (2013) Ontogeny in the tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus (Hadrosauridae) and heterochrony in hadrosaurids. PeerJ 1:e182 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.182

DIGM 620 - Week 4 Review

Last Thursday I visited Dr. Daeschler at the Academy in order to begin scanning the specimens. I'm still sifting through the files to access their usefulness, but I think overall it was a successful session. What I didn't realize was how physically intensive photogrammetry can be (see the video below). 

Photoshoot:
11 specimens 
1322 photos
3.85 GB

My setup

Hours:

Concept Art (3 hrs)

Storyboards (2 hrs)

Photoshoot @ the Academy (3.5 hours)

Uploading photos to 123D Catch  (2 hours)