ViaeGlobi-UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley.pptVIP

Granada 2003 CS285 Designing Viae Globi (Roads on a Sphere) Carlo H. Séquin University of California, Berkeley Inspired by Brent Collins Gower, Missouri “Hyperbolic Hexagon” by B. Collins 6 saddles in a ring 6 holes passing through symmetry plane at ±45o = “wound up” 6-story Scherk tower Discussion: What if … we added more stories ? or introduced a twist before closing the ring ? Closing the Loop “Sculpture Generator I”, GUI Base Geometry: One Scherk Story Hyperbolic Slices == Triangle Strips Pre-computed -- then warped into toroid Brent Collins Hyper-Sculpture: Family of 12 Trefoils Brent Collins’ Pax Mundi1997: wood, 30”diam. How to Model Pax Mundi ... Already addressed that question in 1998: Pax Mundi could not be done with Sculpture Generator I  Needed a more general program ! Used the Berkeley SLIDE environment. First: Needed to find the basic paradigm ? ? ? Sculptures by Naum Gabo Pathway on a sphere: Edge of surface is like seam of tennis- or base-ball; ? 2-period Gabo curve. 2-period “Gabo Curve” Approximation with quartic B-splinewith 8 control points per period,but only 3 DOF are used (symmetry!). 4-period “Gabo Curve” Same construction as for as for 2-period curve Pax Mundi Revisited Can be seen as: Amplitude modulated, 4-period Gabo curve SLIDE SLIDE = Scene Language for Interactive Dynamic Environments Developed as a modular rendering pipelinefor our introductory graphics course. Primary Author: Jordan Smith Based on OpenGL and Tcl/tk. Good combination of interactive 3D graphicsand parameterizable procedural constructs. SLIDE Example: Klein Bottle Final Project CS 184, Nerius Landys Shad Roundy SLIDE Example Bug’s Life Final Project CS 184, David Cheng and James Chow SLIDE as a Design Tool SLIDE originally a modular rendering tool. Later enhanced to serve as a CAD tool: Spline curves and surfaces Morphing sweeps along such curves 3D warping module (Sederberg, Rockwood) Many