The Unity 3D Engine: Building Interactive Scenes Using GameObjects Unity is a powerful development tool that can be used to create interactive 3D Scenes quickly and effectively. Unity uses the rendering pipeline to display graphics and in this report I will outline the phases of the viewing/rendering pipeline and attempt to explain how transformations inside unity are calculated and displayed to the user. The viewing pipeline is the name given to the steps involved in the displaying of a 3D scene as a 2D raster representation. The viewing pipeline uses 3D polygon rendering in order to calculate the necessary pixel values, 3D polygon rendering involves the colour and lighting of all of the polygons in the view of the camera being calculated and then every surface generates a ray which is traced back to the camera. The stages of the viewing pipeline are as follows: 3D geometric primitives – the scene is created from geometric primitives. Usually triangles are used to achieve this as they exist on one plane. Modelling and transformation – The local coordinates are converted into 3D world coordinates this is where transformations made in unity are taken into accounmt. Camera transformation - The 3D world coordinate system in transformed into the 3D camera coordinate system, using the position of the camera as point (0, 0, 0). Lighting – the scene is illuminated using newly calculated lighting and reflectance values. Projection transformation – The 3D world coordinates are transformed into the cameras 2d view, in order to calculate the perspective sizes of objects at different distances to the camera the X and Y coordinates of every vertex must be divided by the Z coordinate of its own primitive. Clipping – all primitives that ar... ... middle of paper ... ...ses a gameobject to move at a high speed along the vector of the player cameras direction. As well as movement the bullet would need to collide with other game objects meaning a collision detection function would usually have to be written. However for the purpose of simply stopping the bullet when it collides unity has built in physics components that can be attached to the bullet gameobject in the inspector panel such as a rigidbody. Unity contains many components, the rigidbody component allow gameobjects to be affected by physical forces such as gravity or wind. Unity also comes with built in character controller components which offer basic functionality for various game types such as first person shooter. These basic components give the opportunity to build upon them using additional scripts in order to save the time it would take to create them from scratch.
...rlapping figures, relative positioning from the ground line and also the illusion of making parallel lines join somewhere far away in the distance.
The vision system integrated into the console provides viewing of the surgical field via a 3D image. It features a tiny telescope, which is placed inside an incision in the patient’s body. The telescope takes images from two points, which are relayed back to a console so the surgeon has a 3D image on-screen while he operates (Fig. 3).
Three dimensional motion capture requires more than one camera to create depth in the motion being performed. A good example is eyesight. If someone where unfortunate enough to only have one eye they would be unable to see the 3-D depth in motion. Having two eyes allows for depth in motion when seeing, which is similar to the idea of using two cameras in order to fully capture the depth in motion. One of the few techniques discovered and used in 3-D motion capture is Direct Linear Transform (DLT). Using the idea that, images from the cameras are determined by their placement to discover their distances, equations could be formed and used. Test subjects wear reflective markers to allow the cameras to follow their movement and motion through space. These reflective markers are placed on certain joins and parts of the body the researcher would like to study. The reflective markers ca...
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...ossessed with three dimensional attributes. The optical effect may be explained by the fact that the human eyes see an object from two viewpoints separated laterally by about six centimeters. The two views show slightly different spatial relationships between near and near distant objects and the visual process fuses these stereoscopic views to a single three dimensional impression. The same parallax view of an object may be experienced upon reflection of an object seen from a concave mirror." (http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4229761.html).
iii. empty space that was extended out into the audience and it could be viewed from three sides
Definition: The computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors.
What was the first Disney Movie to come out? It was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. To make this movie Disney ran into a slight problem. Sure, it was easy to animate animals, but humans? To solve the problem, they filmed live actors doing exactly what the characters would do. This would work, but there was still a problem with the size of objects and losing things in the foreground when the camera zoomed. The solution ... a multiplane camera. In this camera, instead of many layers of artwork, there would be two, the foreground and the background. This made zooming in and out easier.
A. Line – An irregular soft line is used to establish the eye level/horizon in background between the sky and the field. The diagonal lines define the field and are in an opposite direction of the diagonal lines that define the trunk off the tree in the middle of the picture. The diagonal lines in the field, the horizon line, and the edge of the painting create a linear perspective.
The visualization part refers to the computer generating visual, auditory or other sensual outputs to the user of a world within the computer. This world may be a CAD model, a scientific simulation, or a view into a database. The user can interact with the world and directly manipulate objects within the world. Some worlds are animated by other processes, perhaps physical simulations, or simple animation scripts. Interaction with the virtual world, at least with near real time control of the viewpoint, is a critical test for a 'virtual reality'.
Shapes are two- dimensional surfaces such as circles or squares, and forms are three-dimensional shapes like spheres or cubes. A concave form has a pushed-in surface like the inside of a bowl and a convex form has a raised surface like the outside of a bowl. When you are looking at shapes and forms, the shape that you see first is called a figure or positive shape and the area around it is called the ground or the negative shape. The natural curves in different objects, such as trees or clouds are called organic shapes. Geometric shapes and forms are precise and regular such as cubes, pyramids, and circles. A free-form is an irregular invented shape or form that has qualities of a geometric form or an organic form.
Animations is one of the most developed fields in multimedia and design, used in many areas of industry, most especial in the film industry, advertising and promotion, education and also in the game industry where they creates a lot of game using 3D animation. 3D animation consists of varying properties of a 3 dimensional scene defined in numerical quantities. A 3D model can change properties such as position, rotation, shape and surface style. An animated 3D scene is defined by the change of these numerical properties through time. Apart from 3D objects, a scene contains a camera (point of view) and lights which can also be animated. In order to create an animation each of the 3D scene needs to be rendered to create a frame. However, people are not been alert on how it started and what bring it to history. In this chapter, it will show a short brief of 3D history, techniques used and it evolution from 2D to 3D and also the storyline definition.
I’ll talk about perspective first. Perspective is all about the relationship between the objects in the piece of art you’re trying to create. Once you start to truly understand how perspective works you’ll be able to move around the
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“X-Ray Vision / Depth Perception: When AR system was being built, one of its main agendas was to allow users to view objects which have been obstructed by real world objects. This was achieved by showing the position of the obstructed object. However such a system had its own problems. First of all, the alignment of virtual object...