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Pottery
Client:
Center of Science and Industry, Columbus, OH
Staff:
Peter Carswell, ACCAD
Traci Temple, Department of Design
Students:
Hanning Chen, Graphic Design, Department
of Design
Wayne Huang, Programmer, Department of Electrical
Engineering
Proposal:
A redevelopment of the Digital Pottery interactive
kiosk originally produced by ACCAD for the popular international
travelling exhibition, Liquid Visions, 1993.
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Watch
Digital Pottery Movie (19.6 Mb)
Rationale:
The original Digital Pottery program was written
in C using UNIX and the graphical interface Motif platforms.
The 2001 project code was rewritten in C++ run to on Windows
2000 platforms. This transition resulted in greater portability
of the kiosk, ease of use and maintenance, and cost savings.
Plan:
The project features:
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A new interactive user interface
. Sophisticated texture mapping on the models
. Increased sizes of contour control points
. Increased resolution of the interactive models
. Improved the lighting quality and control of the models
Results:
The Digital Pottery kiosk exhibit was placed on exhibition
in January 2002. A holiday version of the software, Design
an Ornament, was completed in November 2001 for the COSI
Christmas exhibition. This version included 3 holiday ornaments,
and holiday textures for user creativity.
The process of developing an inviting animated interface with
high-resolution models for user manipulation served as a model
for derivative projects and usability research for a variety
of academic and professional kiosk proposals.
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