{"id":456,"date":"2015-11-19T12:49:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T18:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2015\/?p=456"},"modified":"2015-11-19T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T18:49:45","slug":"space-elevator-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2015\/2015\/11\/19\/space-elevator-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Elevator, week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Individual Efforts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryce: Learned how to animate with lerp in Unity, and learned about agents and npc scripting. Cleaned up assets for elevator entry scene and began to model it with different lighting and shaders. Experimented with reflection probes and custom materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liang: Wrote a draft of the plot, trying to bridge the visualization with narrative. Searched for resources on how to communicate scientific topics to a general audience. Compiled research on energy, genetically modified food, and pollution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trevor: Set up some data in GIS and created a few test visualizations (below). Found reliable sources for data on topography, pollution, deforestation, and population. Learned about texture mapping in Unity and played around with tutorials for the software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accomplishments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Started our visual storyboard. We have some presentations on science communication to reference. We continue to grow out information about the environmental topics we want to communicate. We have rough draft scenes for both the elevator entry and the space view. Learned how basic animation works in Unity. Found reliable global data for all of the environmental effects we will visualize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Possible population representation, made with ArcGIS and Illustrator:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2015\/files\/2015\/11\/population-viz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-457\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2015\/files\/2015\/11\/population-viz-300x149.png\" alt=\"population viz\" width=\"362\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2015\/files\/2015\/11\/population-viz-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2015\/files\/2015\/11\/population-viz.png 859w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Possible deforestation representation, made with Photoshop:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GlMATOTfi6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problems:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve realized that the story we use for the VR will be very dependent on the level of interaction the users have. Thus we\u2019ve decided to focus on the key concepts that we want to teach the users instead of the narrative that surrounds it. Once we have those facts and interactions, we can then focus back on the narrative and we may build the story around that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Global data is obviously a large-scale process, and regular computers can\u2019t handle it on the scale we need. We may need to save the more intricate mapping visualizations for supplemental screens on the side instead of for the actual globe in our VR model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There needs to be a visual storyboard developed. We don\u2019t really know what our project might look like in VR due to using the CAVE, can we use it? Timing is an issue that is becoming apparent, we need to consider how long interactions and visualizations may take. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For next week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Continue modeling environments<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Continue creating data visualizations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visual storyboard completion<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientific communication:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What information we want to teach the users<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Key talking points in these categories<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Agriculture usage<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Projected population\/growth rates<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deforestation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pollution<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Effective ways of informing public about scientific concepts and ideas<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual Efforts: Bryce: Learned how to animate with lerp in Unity, and learned about agents and npc scripting. 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