Tabletop and Lots of Stuff

Went to Blick's to get a re-stickable adhesive to enable switching graphics in our phicon's internal support. We then went to East Bay Depot to see if they had anything useful. We found an Apollo 11 video and purchased it for $1. We went to Cobel Glass and got estimates on the size and price of an octagonal glass top. After consideration of this, we are leaning towards the use of acrylic as our tabletop material. It will be 1/2 - 1/3 the weight and about as strong and similar in price without the risk of shattering.

Stephen worked on figuring out how to do video texturing in the Shockwave 3D world. Since DART's video actor is clunky the attempt was made to use Flash video instead and map the SWF to the Shockwave 3D object (or plane). DART could not do this in realtime. Stephen also found some clues to getting the DVCam to work as a bridge on the PC, thereby reviving the possiblity of our previous intentions.

With Andrew Cho's help, Song rigged her horse model to a skeleton. Next week animation will be tackled.

We established where and how we will hang our projector during our test phase in the Grad Lab. Mounting hardware was purchased to place the projector on the ceiling. The projector we got has vertical and horizontal flip modes as well as mounting points allowing us to hang it upside down and correctly orient the image. It also has distortion correction features.

Gavin confirmed that we could use the department's microphone stands at table bases for our mini-exhibits.