Mary Gates Hall Room 200-something: Undergraduate Research Symposium Posters

VRML file: vrml/mgh_poly3.wrl Textures, source image, and models can be found in the vrml/ directory.

The source image was taken last May by me, in an empty room in MGH, with a Panasonic FX01 digital camera. The FX01 is a strange model, because the previous models in the series were named FX5 and FX7 and such numbers. Logically, this one should have been named FX10, and is indeed called that in some technical documents. Typo?



This image served as our cutout model and as a VRML model. For the cutout, a single box was placed in the middle of the room.



The cutout looked surprisingly convincing through the lens of the camera (same one!).




For the VRML model, I spent hours crafting polygons by hand and sometimes adjusting their points. I wanted the posters to stand out slightly against the windows.



The result was pretty cool. The source image was pretty limiting insofar as a lot of extraneous stuff covered up surfaces and the angle at which the picture was taken wasn't optimal in selecting distinct objects like tables, posters, and walls.





Some textures that the program created follow. I spent no time adjusting their brightness, although that seems like a good idea in retrospect. Overall, this was a fun project. The creation of the artifact was my least favorite part.