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3D Design, Commercial Architecture and Walkthrough Animation Presentation Digital Virtual Reality Design

Reverse Engineering a Transmission Tunnel: After hand fabricating a transmission tunnel for the 1923 T-bucket, it was reverse engineered to produce one with an improved shape and to be able to mass produce small quantities. The model was scanned using a handheld scanner reading 26000 points per second. The point cloud was used to develop a CAD solid model to be used as the math model for CNC machining the styrofoam pattern. The machined pattern was used to layup the fiberglass mold.

Google Tech Talks March, 24 2008 ABSTRACT Yang Li – RESEARCH SCIENTIST Pervasive or ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) applications can support people’s everyday activities in the physical world by leveraging advances in sensor technologies and computing infrastructures. Designing ubicomp applications is challenging because our everyday activities are more complex, dynamic and less structured than the tasks supported by traditional desktop computing. Ubicomp design is difficult, time-consuming, and requires a high level of technical expertise, especially with sensor technologies. To address this, I created a set of rapid prototyping tools and frameworks. My early work with Topiary introduces high-level abstractions, such as maps and scenarios, for designers to easily model location contexts and specify location-based behaviors. Topiary also allows a design to be tested in the field via a Wizard of Oz approach, without deploying a location sensor infrastructure. My recent work is focused on activity-based ubicomp prototyping, a process for enabling long-term activities (such as keeping fit)—a larger unit for design than the tasks that are the focus of traditional design. To support such a process, I created ActivityDesigner, a system that allows designers to create functional prototypes of ubicomp applications based on field observations, and easily deploy and test these prototypes in situ. Speaker: Yang Li – RESEARCH SCIENTIST Yang Li is a research associate in the Computer …

ZBrush was used to create Yoda as a rapid prototype model. For more information, please visit: www.criteria-systems.com

This talk is about reverse engineering a proprietary network protocol, and then creating my own implementation. The talk will cover the tools used to take binary data apart, capture the data, and techniques I use for decoding unknown formats. The protocol covered is the RTMP protocol used by Adobe flash, and this new implementation is part of the Gnash project. By Rob SavoyeFOSDEM (Free and Open Source Development European Meeting) is a European event centered around Free and Open Source software development. It is aimed at developers and all interested in the Free and Open Source news in the world. Its goals are to enable developers to meet and to promote the awareness and use of free and open source software. More info at fosdem.org

Who cares about which game you like more, which circumstance w/ powers would you want? I think most people would pick Alex for sheer “bad@ssitude”, but Cole would work great in the “real world” where you’d be the only super person, but let’s look at how each was created and what YOU would be if you chose their “origin.”

(! SPOILERS ! SPOILERS !)

Cole got his power from the ray sphere, a device which absorbs bio-energy from thousands of nearby people (killing them and causing a huge blast radius of damage, killing more people), and puts that power, in the form of electricity, into Cole.

Alex was a doctor of genetics that unleashed a deadly virus, but was immediately shot and killed. His freshly dead body fell on top of the virus, which took over and copied Alex’s body done to the genetic level, so it “thinks” it is Alex, with no memory. The character is a virus wearing the genes, body, and personality of a dead man.

Cole can use electricity for top human speed, climbing, strength and overall athletics, but Alex is Hulk-strong and durable. Both have rapid healing, but Alex can shapeshift, absorb the mass of others into himself, taking their abilities memories and looks. Alex can change into a humanoid with a tank shell, blade arms, claws, or a shield arm. Cole can shoot lightning, absorb and generate electricity, bind people with electrical “rope”, heal physical damage, absorb the memories of the recently deceased, electro glide (Alex can glide too), send a wave of electricity which damages as well as throws everything in its path up in the air, and he can throw timed charged electric grenades.

Anyway, if you pick Cole, you’d have to kill thousands of people, but if you chose Alex, you would not be YOU. You’d wake up with amnesia, with your personality but no clue who you were, a virus inside the shell of your former self.

I gues you could detonate the ray shere near a huge prison, or in a country that is a USA enemy. And I guess you could record hours and hours of video tape, recordings and journals to give your self after you are killed and exposed to the virus in an airlock to keep it contained just to you. that way when “you” wake up with no memory, your recordings could reorintate you to your new life.

Whatever, pick one and say why…

This video shows and describes the operation of the Z-corp 310 printer. It is fully functioning part with ball bearings!

3D Design, Commercial Architecture and Walkthrough Animation Presentation Digital Virtual Reality Design

I enjoy working with electronics, and i am going to Wentworth for electronic engineering in September, but i would like to work on cracking the ps3, and i was wondering if reverse engineering was part of the curriculum or if i would just gain the knowledge needed then figure the rest out, or whats up?

3D Design, Commercial Architecture and Walkthrough Animation Presentation Digital Virtual Reality Design