Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

Here is another video of the Arts Metaverse UBC Campus where the avatar travels into a gallery showing the both 2D and 3D of the original textures on Ancient Mayan vases. Dr. Marvin Cohodas is the academic we are working with on this particular project. He has been struggling for years to find a way of showing the students the textures in 3D dimension. This is important because the Mayan vases are being used to record history where stories are being painted onto the vase. It is critical to “see” the art works continuously in 360 degrees rotation rather than starting from one point to another. Many of them have no “beginning” and “ending”. The flat texture scrolls in 2D simply destroys the story line. Modeling the vases and applying the textures on to the 3D objects would be a better solution for the students to visualize the story much accurately...

Thanks to Open Croquet, we are able to bring in high resolution textures and user defined natual light sources.