{"id":42,"date":"2013-01-18T17:12:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/?p=42"},"modified":"2013-02-06T18:48:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:48:23","slug":"assignment-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/2013\/01\/18\/assignment-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we are going to create realistic virtual environments we first need to understand the environments around us.\u00a0 <strong>Choose an active environment that you would like to study<\/strong>, maybe a coffee shop, the union, the mall, your room, etc. and <strong>describe this environment<\/strong> in such a way so that someone else could create a virtual representation of it.\u00a0 The representation need not be a recipe to make an exact duplicate, but rather should be a <strong>description of attributes needed to<\/strong> <strong>recreate the<\/strong> <strong>\u201cfeel\u201d of the environment<\/strong>.\u00a0 You just need to describe the environment itself, not the actions taking place (think PI and not Psi).\u00a0 <em>Please write this up via sentences and paragraphs as opposed to a bullet point list.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Things you should include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What kind of objects are in the environment (chairs, tables, books, etc)<\/li>\n<li>How are these objects placed (neat, messy, randomly, etc)<\/li>\n<li>What kinds of ambient sounds are naturally occurring in the environment (buzzing fluorescent tubes, computer fans, etc)<\/li>\n<li>What kinds of colors and textures are present in this environment (wood grains, magazine covers, plastic labels, etc)<\/li>\n<li>How is the environment lit (sun light, floor lamps, overhead fluorescent tubes, etc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Also at the end of your write up I would like you to single out what characteristic you believe would be the most difficult to model and briefly explain why.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This assignment is not meant to be difficult, but is an exercise to get you thinking about what factors you need to account for when making virtual scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Please write up at least <strong>1 page<\/strong> worth of information (4-5 paragraphs) but you can do more if you feel like it.\u00a0 This assignment is to be done<strong> individually<\/strong> (almost all other assignments will be done in groups).<\/p>\n<p>Send me an <a href=\"mailto:kbponto@wisc.edu\">email<\/a> with the assignment either being the content or as a pdf by <strong>2\/10\/2013 at 11:59pm<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we are going to create realistic virtual environments we first need to understand the environments around us.\u00a0 Choose an active environment that you would like to study, maybe a coffee shop, the union, the mall, your room, etc. and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/2013\/01\/18\/assignment-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/ds501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}