Sorbonne virtual reality workshop

presented by Tim Portlock timportlock@yahoo.com

Oct 19th and 21st 2003.

What is Virtual Reality?

• real time vs linear media
• www.evl.uic.edu/cave

Virtual Sorbonne and Virtual Montmartre project.

• Cultural heritage and education.
• The process for creating these two projects

The process for creating a typical virtual environment.

Creating images and image processing.

• photography/scanning.
• image processing.

3d modeling.

• creating geometry.
• adding texture to the geometry.

Graphics Engine

• placing the textured models in the 3D space.
• applying interactivity.

Using Adobe Photoshop to process photos for use in a real time environment.

• Selection tools.
• Adjusting color and contrast
• Layers and combining images.
• scale,skew and rotate
• sizing an image.
• file formats

the following images are examples of what we images that will be processed during the workshop.

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