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 | Aug 24, 2018 | AR, Opinions, Thoughts, VR, XR
Altered Perception Expanding on the initial writing of ‘Discerning the Natural from the Virtual in Extended Reality Applications’ I really dug into researching the idea of reality in other disciplines. What I kept encountering was the idea of perception...
by Neil Christensen | May 15, 2018 | Opinions, Thoughts
Expressive 2018 Our lab administrator Katy Etemad suggested submitting a paper to the Expressive 2018 conference. It is an extension of SIGGRAPH and was looking for Meta papers in art and technology. I wrote a 10-page summation of my current thoughts on my research...
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...
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