Marissa Johnson
From MHCGraphics
Hey everyone! I'm Marissa and here's the wiki.
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[edit] Quotes
- "Now if you don't mind, I am somewhat preoccupied telling the laws of physics to shut up and sit down."
-Giants in the Playground
[edit] Who I am and Where I'm From
- Well besides my parents, I'm from Massachusets somewhere near the coast. My hobbies include computers, manga, and planning world domination with my friends. I chose this computer course because I enjoy making pretty pictures, but lack the basic talent to draw stick figures. While this usually doesn't matter I would prefer to be able to create some sort of art no matter how it is accomplished.
- I'm a sophmore Asian Studies major who hopes to someday be an effective part of the workforce (I try not to mention the world domination thing too often)
[edit] I like kittens
- One of the few things I enjoy more then pretty pictures and talking with my friends is cute, fluffy things that are unutterably adorable. They are amazing and should be worshiped. The power of the cute cannot be thwarted and will always overcome any obstacle no matter how large, mean, or sarcastic it is.
Feel the cute!
[edit] Going that extra mile...
- ... of yarn. Last fall I was looking for a hobby and ended up teaching myself how to knit off the internet. So I knit a lot (I do not have a problem) and enjoy making fun, warm things no matter the season.
[edit] Lab Projects
[edit] A Simple Model
Here is a trio of flowers made of simple shapes and colors.
[edit] Working with Custom Objects
This one is a bit more complicated to make, but just a simple to look at. Be sure to check the caption.
[edit] Modeling with Realistic Materials
Here are two different views of my scene. The first one is looking straight on...
[edit] Surprise...I guess
Here is the camera/lighting model. The scene isn't very interesting, but the materials are nice and the lights are good practice.
...And the second one looking on fom an angle.
- There isn't really that much to say about the model. I tried to create pillars that were as realistic as I could. I added a lot of extra lights in order to bring out the white and light gray colors that the scene was made of. The vase and table were random, I just thought that a long line of pillars might look boring and decided to add stuff. Nothing in the scene that I made was created with anything more compicated then simple shapes and differences. The teapot is there because it looks nice.
[edit] Replication
- Here I repicated two rows of flowers within a concrete walkway. I made this out of simple shapes with the replication being the most complicated part of the programming.
[edit] Bezier Curves
- I used the bezier curves to create the spounts of water in the fountain. Next I put in a random add funtion to place the spounts of water inside the scene. The rest of the objects were created mostly with lathe. I did add two panels to the scene in order to create a backdrop.
[edit] Animation
- This movie involved the rotation of a single spout of water around the y axis while at the same time growing larger. Most of the model and scene remained the same as that in the Bezier curves model. One interesting problem that we had in lab was that when the "spout" object was put into the sprayWater program it rotated 90 degrees around the x-axis. There was no obvious reason for it to do so and the mystery remains unsolved. In the end the spout was rotated back -90 degrees.
My movie, Click to see
[edit] Final Project
Here are a few early shots of my final project.
[edit] Now my final images for the class...
- This has been the culmination of a few of my projects as well as exploring new areas. I started with the patch mesh'd hills and the appropriate slope to create a horizon. I added in the fountain and some flowers from previous labs, making use of the 'random' function. Any and all materials I either made myself or borrowed from my own previous labs. For most of the smaller pieces, like the wall, birds, and clouds, I made in separate windows in order to be able to experiment faster. The wall I created myself with multiAdd and far too much math. The clouds are scaled spheres put together and grouped. The birds I made with extensive use of bezier'd curves.
- Now the clouds have started to move a bit to the right and the birds are flying away into the distance as the fountain continues to shoot spouts of water randomly. The path also is made almost solely of bezier and is made to look as if it is disappearing into the distance.
- Here the clouds are almost completely out of sight and the birds are beginning to vanish into the distance as the fountain runs. The lights have also been dimmed in an attempt to give the impression that time has passed.
