Meshmoon Avatar - Class 4

Here is the avatar configuration screen in Meshmoon - here, I have changed my avatar to "Hiphop" dress

This is my group before we changed our avatars

And here we are after changing!

Meshmoon Exploration - Class 4

Here are some screenshots of my team exploring the virtual worlds:

Class 3: Entering Meshmoon Virtual Worlds

Here are a few screenshots of the Meshmoon virtual world by Miser, "New Beginnings". In this world, there are a few other avatars, in addition to some tents and Humvees.

Class 3: Exploring the Virtual World Framework (VWF)

In this assignment, I am exploring 3 different virtual worlds through my browser. All of these worlds are located on the Virtual World Framework, or VWF. The VWF contains several different demo worlds accessible to the public to highlight the capabilities of applications which can be used for workplace collaboration, education collaboration, and many other things.

Overall, while the VWF demo worlds were interesting to explore, there was a noticeable change in user experience compared to the Meshmoon Rocket desktop application. The web-based virtual worlds were fairly laggy, and the graphics were not quite as good as Meshmoon desktop-based virtual world. Also, due to the fact that the VWF worlds are demo versions, there is far less capability as far as manipulating the world and/or the avatar.

The "Grassy Terrain" world:

The Afghan Village:

The Command Center:

MIDTERM #4

Here are some screenshots of my avatar in Meshmoon:

Here, I customized my avatar. He is in a flying pose right now...

This is my avatar in the virtual enviroment.

My avatar is sitting here - I was able make a "Greeting Card" by switching the view to "Target Mode" and using the arrow keys to rotate 180 degrees.

Here is my avatar looking out from the deck

Finally, here is my avatar looking from outside at the room he was just in

This is my avatar in the Meshmoon virtual environment. It is a midterm exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Assignment - Red Eye Image Formats

In this assignment, the redeye JPEG photo is saved in GIF and PNG formats to highlight the image quality differences.

The image in JPEG format.

Here is the image in JPEG format open in GIMP.

Here, the image is being exported to GIF format.

Here is the image in GIF format

Here, the JPEG image is being exported to PNG format.

Here is the image in PNG format.

 As you can see in the images above, the most obvious quality difference is the GIF - the image is of a much lower quality. JPEG seems to be the best, followed closely by PNG. 


In this assignment, the redeye JPEG photo is saved in GIF and PNG formats to highlight the image quality differences. It is a midterm exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

MIDTERM 3

This midterm explores some commonly used internet file types for pictures. In this example, we started with a TIFF picture, then converted it to JPEG, GIF, and finally, PNG.

Here is the original picture in TIFF format.

In this shot, the original picture is now open in GIMP.

Here, I have added my name to the top of the picture. I am exporting the picture to JPEG format.

Here is the picture in JPEG format.

In this shot, I am exporting the original TIFF file to GIF format.

One of the options during the GIF conversion is to add Interlace - this allows the picture to appear in stages as it is being downloaded.

This is the picture in GIF format.

Here is a shot of the picture being exported to the final format, PNG.

Here is the picture in PNG format.

 This is a picture being converted to several popular file formats. It is a midterm exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

MIDTERM 2

Here is the original Samus picture.

The picture is now open in GIMP and ready for editing

Here, a rectangular region has been selected, and will be filled white (BG color).

The white-filled region is now ready for text.

The white filled region now has text that I have input using the Text tool in GIMP.

Here is the finished JPEG with the caption added.

This is an example showing how to add captions to a picture in GIMP. It is a midterm exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc