by Neil Christensen | Nov 4, 2019 | AR, Opinions, Photogrammetry, Rendering, Software, Theater, Thoughts, VR, XR
Thesis Defense After nailing down my thesis in the summer it was time to convene my defense committee. This was more of a challenge than it appeared as committee member schedules needed to be taken into consideration. We eventually targeted November after September...
by Neil Christensen | Dec 20, 2018 | Photogrammetry, Software, Theater, VR, XR
Photogrammetry We have collected a number of objects for our story about Annie Donnelly and her life before & after the massacre. After running a few tests with different photogrammetry software, I’m going to use RealityCapture. It’s a professional...
by Neil Christensen | Apr 10, 2018 | AR, Opinions, Software, Thoughts
Xscape I’ve been doing a lot of R&D for my thesis ‘Discerning the Natural from Simulation in Extended Reality Applications” and decided to make an AR app to demonstrate some of my findings. I used photogrammetry scans of fruit and lit everything...
by Neil Christensen | Apr 3, 2018 | Opinions, Rendering, Software, Thoughts
I’ve been taking a computer science course this semester, CPSC 607 Biological Computation, and I’ve learned by studying nature’s processes we can simulate different emerging systems like ants colonies, swarms and cells. The key is...
by Neil Christensen | Mar 2, 2018 | Opinions, Rendering, Software, Thoughts
I worked with fellow CMD Masters student Natasha Shevchenko to render a Plant Cell in Cinema 4D using Octane. The cell was purchased on TurboSquid and was a native Maya file. We ran into several issues bringing it into C4D, but in the end, exporting out separate...
by Neil Christensen | Sep 29, 2017 | AR, Software
I have spent several hours using the HoloLens and it is a great piece of technology but it has a couple key flaws that makes me hesitate to use it moving forward. It’s a 2 year old device and in today’s tech world that is an issue as new updates are...
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