Category: NSF CyberGRID

CyberGRID – NSF-Funded Virtual Collaboration Environment

Introduction CyberGRID began as an independent study for professor John E. Taylor of Columbia University’s civil engineering department.  At the time that I approached professor Taylor he conducted a yearly class that involved doing collaborative design projects with 4 other universities around the world.  This collaboration was facilitated via online classrooms in Second Life, a well-known web-based […]

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3D Character Design

Summary: This model was initially designed to be part of a custom character database for my CyberGRID project. Developing an entire custom character database of this level of detail posed to be a very time-consuming endeavor.  Thus, the project turned out to be a terrific learning experience on 3D character modeling and texturing, but we […]

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