{"id":5306,"date":"2010-09-21T14:17:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T14:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/?p=6"},"modified":"2010-09-21T14:17:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T14:17:22","slug":"sperm-whale-animation-tests-maya-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/2010\/09\/21\/sperm-whale-animation-tests-maya-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sperm Whale Animation Tests (Maya)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uGnBN2VTlNI<\/p>\n<p>We worked with some Fisheries &amp; Wildlife instructors last year to develop a sperm whale dive simulation in Flash. This was designed to bring their data to life, and give students a deeper understanding of what was happening as a sperm whale dove to great depths, hunted food, and resurfaced. This was delivered as a simple 2D animation, with some limited interaction (which I&#8217;ll post later, if the instructor approves).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecampuspdt\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSoon after delivering the 2D version, PDT started experimenting with a 3D version of the dive that was closer to an fully interactive video game. The plan was to make this game using Unity3D instead of Flash. At the time, we had a student worker, Wes Starr, who was learning to use Autodesk&#8217;s Maya (a popular 3D modeling program). The two videos featured in this post are samples that he generated (output from Maya) so we could seek feedback on the whale&#8217;s motion.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tl&#8211;nNTt4tA<\/p>\n<p>We are still experimenting with the Unity3D version of this simulation (or game), but since the 2D version works &#8211; this notable revision has ended up a low priority project. I thought it would be nice to share these work-in-progress videos. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uGnBN2VTlNI We worked with some Fisheries &amp; Wildlife instructors last year to develop a sperm whale dive simulation in Flash. This was designed to bring their data to life, and give students a deeper understanding of what was happening as a sperm whale dove to great depths, hunted food, and resurfaced. This was delivered as&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/2010\/09\/21\/sperm-whale-animation-tests-maya-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[48,193,228,280,406,419,427,454,470,497],"class_list":["post-5306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animations","category-videos","tag-animation","tag-fw","tag-in-progress","tag-maya","tag-rough","tag-simulation","tag-sperm-whale","tag-test","tag-unity3d","tag-whale"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}