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Explanation of the Prototype

Since the Gundam customiser (creatively named Custom Gundamiser!) is designed as a downloadable, external application, an interactive website prototype did not seem so appropriate. The following are screenshots that illustrate the steps a user would take in order to customise a Gundam using the Custom Gundamiser application, focussing mainly on the generative aspects.

There are four main areas in which a Gundam model kit can be customised. Thes… Continue

this is a random post.

i was just working on assignment 3. you know how i was thinking that having already made a 3D gundam model in Maya last year would make things easier for me? Don't get me wrong, it certainly does. I think this task might have been quite impossible without it...

BUT i was making some renders - by that i mean LOTS - for my screenshots, and it actually really made me appreciate how much easier it would be to have a generative system do it for you! i have to sit here manuall… Continue

so, i've pretty mcuh decided that i'm going to make a non-functioning prototype, so some fancy screenshots of my Lego-Digital-Designer-esque Gundam customiser. I have never been more glad that chose the same subject matter for my 3D modelling assignment last year!

the way i am going to do this is reuse the Maya model i made last year, take screenshots of me tweaking some of the edit points, and changing colours and textures, etc. and photoshop them to look like screens of my application. If i h… Continue

well, i thought about it. and at first i wasn't sure how emergence might work with my gundam application, and i'm still nor quite sure... but anyways, here's my example!

so i consulted the almighty research tool google, and typed in "emergence design examples" and this came up:

http://emergence.design.ucla.edu/

It is basically a software system - a CG environment - called (funnily enough) Emergence.

It offers a whole virtual environment,… Continue

some catchup:

this was last week's tute on Evolutionary Context Free.

I tried using my own Context template, but i don't think there were quite enough varying parameters to make anything interesting. they still looked pretty much the same after a few tries.

So i just used the demo.

the circled ones are the ones i chose as "parents" of the next generation.

I started with this....

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