Assignment3- Final Submission

This campus guide gives a brand new experience of navigating and facilitating different aspects of campus without the user actually having been to the places. Augmented Reality is used to maximize the multimedia interaction, enhance the outcome of knowledge participation and eventually substitute the traditional 2D campus map guide. The narrative of the installation has been logically planned out, users can simply follow planned out sequences on the board to know better of certain spot.

http://uploading.com/files/7382552m/3284041_YiZhang.zip/

Assignment3- Selected buildings and environment

These are the selected 4 buildings in more detailed construction with surrounding environment.

Red Centre

Faculty of Law

Roundhouse

Chemical Science Building

Assignment3 - Marker Disposition

3D Scene1:

First Middle marker: overall campus

First 6 surrounding markers: Names of selected buildings

Scene2(remove the first sets of surrounding markers)

First Middle marker: overall campus

Second 6 surrounding markers: selected building in highlight& the direction

Scene3: (remove the first middel marker, and second sets of surrounding markers one by one)

Second Middel marker: no information displayed

Third 6 surrounding markers: isolated building in larger scale with information of this building

Assignment3 - Trees

After experimenting with different types of trees in different scales both with and without the campus layer on, I found it is probably the best to show detailed, relatively large size trees without campus layer.

Instead of moving the marker to show the complete road, I've animated the road in motion, in that case, object can have large scale with more details without worrying some parts may not be seen if the marker is moved out of camera view.

Assignment3- Campus road and trees

Problems:
The lighting condition is not desirable in the red centre lab, it is too bright and uneven. However, the 'trees and road' layer did seem to appear on campus layer relatively well despite the bouncing of the model due to the marker not being flat on ground.

Next step:
Finish constructing all the trees and arrange them into one layer with campus road .

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The original tree I was using has too many polygons, and it has taken a lot of time to place them onto the right places, so I replaced it with a low polygon tree found in google warehouse.

Trees lost their texture and all became black after imported into 3dsmax and viewed with BuildAR. I think this is probably due to the resizing of model from its original scale, the amount of detail is not visible in such a small size.

Assignment3 -Development

At this stage, I have successfully imported the Cad file of the campus into 3DS Max, which didn't take much time as far as the level I'm concerning. I created a simple marker for the campus and tried out in BuildAR. The result is satisfactory--the texture is right, the orientation is correct, the added text is appearing. However, The embedded animation is not appearing.

This rendered animation shows the building (red center in this case) being highlighted.

In this video, I had Assigned the highlighted building into another marker and showed it when needed. However, I still couldn't get animation to work like in 3ds Max. Anyone out there know how to do it? Also, it is very hard to put the highlighted building marker on the right spot, it probably needs to be adjusted both in 3ds max and buildAR

Things to do:
1. Make a solid base for making it easier to put everything on it in right position.
2. Continue modeling the selected buildings using different techniques (I'm still thinking if the photosynth reconstruction will really work, or I should just use the model and add more details into it)
3. Collect important information of each faculty and manage to put them into animation (display the information)
4. The campus model itself does not have any plantation, I think it will be nice to model the trees and show environmental aspects of the campus
5. Create different markers and arrange them into a logical way

Assignment3- Concept Development

(google map)

The highlighted blue area is UNSW campus, which will be one of the fundamental components in my project, and the red highlighted spots are my selected buildings which I will be reconstructing. I was fortunate to get the base model from Jeremy, so my focus will be on how to represent the UNSW campus guide in a creative and logical way.


Buildings to be reconstructed:
Round House, Law Library,Chemical building,Red Centre, Quadrangle buildings and Main library.

Path of Direction:

1, Round House


2, Law Building

3, Chemical Building