This week was the start to 3D graphics. We learned a little bit about the Utah Teapot. "The Utah teapot or Newell teapot is a 3D computer model which has become a standard reference object (and something of an in-joke) in the computer graphics community."-Wikipedia. The Teapot is not easy to make becuase of all the curved surfaces it has.
We made an ice cream looking figure. We used 2 spheres and an upside cone shape.
This is the code I used
On Tuesday, we were introduced to a program called Alice. Someone described it as a "3D version of Scratch." Here is a little picture of a 'taste' program.
We could add objects, change the background colors, move the camera around, adjust the lighting, etc. in this program.
On Wednesday, we were using a different 3D program. The program is called "Sketchup." We were to make 'cool houses.' I started playing around with the program and made a basic looking house. Now, I am working on making a replica of my own house. Here is my basic looking house:
On Thursday we created a model of the solar system. I first made the Earth. Here is the 'Earth' in a picture
I then added the Sun to create a more "realistic." I also made the Earth orbit and rotate around the sun. Here is a picture
Here is the code I used to create the Earth orbiting around the Sun.
On Friday, we made models of a ball bouncing on a flat surface using Python. Here is a picture of what we did. We had to make the ball bounce a couple of times and make the ball slow down each time it bounced. That was gravity simulated to our ball.
Here is the code we used:
