Barry Scott - Art/3D page

Here's another one! There are a two more down below.

WELCOME TO MY 3D PAGE

I have been working with 3D software since I first found windows95.
I have worked or experimented with most of the major players in 3D apps.
I work for myself in Caligari Truespace.
I have always fould it to be the most intuitive of the products,
and Caligari products have always supported VRML* output,
and I do love the idea of 3D on the web!

I have used 3D applications for a variety of things, modeling for work and for art.
*VRML= Virtual Reality Modeling Language.

Virtual reality on the web,
Keeping you informed
While living in Washington D.C., I was working on building the Woodley Park Metro station in 3D, to start a web site that would instruct people on how the metrorail system worked. I was going to provide VRML content, so they could see every step of what was required, before ever stepping into a station. One thing the people of the capitol knew, was that tourists were usually in the way in the metro stations... trying hard to figure out how the whole thing worked.
I was hoping to later incorporate the entire Metro system, in a plan for a virtual Washington D.C. site.
I had to put the whole project aside when 9-11 happened, we don't want to instruct the wrong people, do we?
xenophobia is not healthy.

Project visualization

I have always used 3D to visualize projects I am about to undertake.
The example here is a door that I was going to faux paint in the neighborhood.
In a case like this, the ability to give the client a 3D rendering of the job before starting always helps to land the job, and make the client feel more comfortable about what the outcome will be.
This is especially true when dealing with extreme color or textural changes that the person is apprehensive about from the start. In this case, the client was very used to looking at the door as it had always been painted... in black and red.

Product or Object visualization

I have produced MANY models for product visualizations, including exploded views and animations of product movement.
Included in this type of working with 3D is where I place architectural rendering, most likely the largest use of 3D applications I have seen to date. I have created virtual amusement parks, a variety of temples and garden gazebos, furnishings, jewelry, and a miriad of other creations.

..... and sometimes, it's just for art, or fun!

... now, don't act suprised, I already told you these were here.

really, this is the last one.... but you want to look anyway, don't you?

VRML and X3D
3D worlds to wander in.

STEP ONE,
get yourself a CosmoPlayer or a COMPLIANT browser for VRML.
I bring up CosmoPlayer because it WORKS!
Let me know if you run into anything else that does, as I have seen little that works as well.

Look!
Here's some now!

Here is the beginnings of my 3D gallery for those who are interested in the concept of a 3D web.
For now it goes to my paintings, and to the main photography page.
I have built in the 2 new levels for the gallery areas,
These can be reached by bringing up the viewpoint list on the left (at least in the CosmoPlayer control.).
This is being written in VRML 2.0, soon (hopefully) to be expanded into the newer X3D format.
If you do not have navigatable 3D content in the box below,
you probably do not have a 3D browser.
It works like your HTML browser, only you surf in 3D, not 2D.
Please feel free to download CosmoPlayer to view the current content. I will keep you updated as good X3D players arrive.
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How to move around...
Click and Drag the pointer,the further you drag, the quicker you move.
Drag up to move forward, down to move backward, right to turn right and left to turn left.
Feel free to explore the various buttons on the console, you have now entered the world of the 3D web.
Try to get to the new levels!
Soon links to all images will be on the VRML site, as well as the HTML!

This experiment is called VRMLbox.wrl
I was trying to work out behaviors for objects.
Still working on that.

Let me know what the mechanisms are, I am having trouble figuring out the programming after all these years.
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This is my 3D colorball.wrl.
I just made the ball in Truespace with extruded text
booleaned with a sphere.
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