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Happy Halloween!

2007-10-28T23:15:00.000-05:00

Salad Fingers pumpkin by Casey Lee

Seed of Life pumpkin by Keith Simmons

The South Wedge Digital Ripple

2007-08-15T00:00:00.001-05:00

This Wednesday is the culmination of the South Wedge Digital Ripple Project. This is the second phase of the Rochester Digital Ripple first taught last summer.

This summer, 17 Rochester City and Monroe County youth are building a wireless mesh network for the South Wedge Area of Rochester. Art for Everyone developed and taught a full curriculum for the program. This year, our students learned entrepreneurial skills for writing business plans, conducting web consulting, and innovating in technology.

- Keith Simmons

Picasa Test

2007-08-07T23:45:00.001-05:00

- Keith Simmons

Collaborative Wiki

2007-02-27T11:59:00.000-05:00

I've most recently been working on the Hamamatsu Rochester Collaborative Wiki. I was hired RASA to coordinate a collaboration between Rochester students and students in Hamamatsu Japan. Hamamatsu is one of Rochester's sister cities, a program initiated to promote world peace through citizens' actions.

The wiki uses Project Sycamore's backend with some tweaking to some of the scripts.

- Keith Simmons

ITartist.com Demo Reel Cutscenes

2007-01-21T04:40:00.000-05:00

This video shows off the 3D models in my portfolio at http://ITartist.com. These short scenes will serve as cutscenes for my comprehensive demo reel. All artwork by Keith Simmons.

Ibis in the atrium

2007-01-11T13:14:00.000-05:00

Here's some eye candy from my blender experiments. Not sure why I chose 5-fold symmetry, but 5 pentagons arranged as such create groups of 2 and 3 (all prime numbers). Note the shadows on the ground and the ibis on the coffee mug (it moves a bit):

QuicktimeVR Atrium

2006-12-30T14:04:00.000-05:00

The following QuicktimeVR movie was created using blender3D and makeCubic. The metallic spheres are synthetic and rendered by blender. This is in the IT atrium at RIT.

-Keith Simmons

Third week at the Planetarium

2006-12-29T18:54:00.000-05:00

Planetarium Third Week

These photos were from a presentation at the planetarium demonstrating dataton watchout software. I was able to get behind the scenes afterward to help break down. This could be coupled with my spherical reflection ideas for the planetarium.

Planetarium Job Update

2006-12-24T01:59:00.000-05:00

Planetarium Job Continued

I uploaded photos of our new test setup including a 6 computer cluster, 6 projectors, and a relocated projection sphere. The cropped pictures of the reflective spheres can be put directly into blender as angMap environments.

I made two demo videos to demonstrate the 3D mapping mentioned above:

Blender 3D Ibis Animation

2006-12-22T02:55:00.000-05:00

I created a more stylized render of the Ibis I spent about 6 months modeling. This bird was created in blender 3d and demonstrates character rigging with armatures and weight painting for proper skin behavior.

Planetarium Job Begins

2006-12-15T23:39:00.000-05:00

On December 15th, I started working on a projection system for the planetarium in Rochester, NY. I took some pictures of our test setup: a 14' diameter hemi-sphere made of canvas, a few dell, projectors, and a handful of people. Here I am trying to project onto a mirrored ball to map to the inside of the hemisphere.

Planetarium Job Begins

ITartist.com Blog Created

2006-12-14T13:09:00.000-05:00

I've finally created my blog. Posts about working on the planetarium and my blender 3D stuff are coming soon.