Summer Internship Report

Adity Mutsuddi

Weeks 1 and 2

• Linux• Maya Export• Blender Tutorial• HTML

Week 3

• Hallway modeling

• Re-do model with greater accuracy• Paper Presentation

Week 4

• Objects

• Textures

• Bugs

Weeks 5 and 6

• Hallway modeling– Completed Hallways

– Alignment and Walls

• Open Scene Graph– Keyboard control

– Adding Segments with movement

– Texture Mapping

• Problems

Hallway Models• Complex

• Simple

Weeks 7 and 8

• Open Scene Graph– Endcaps

– Merging of codes

• Thesis Work• Summit Meeting and Demo

• Aliasing

• Weird lighting effects

• Flickering “green stuff” on the floor

• Viewpoint

RayTracing

• Frustratingly fun!

Switch software ?

• Blender

• OSG

Research issues• Recalibration

• How do humans respond when biomechanical speed is not equal to visual speed?

• Space• Effect of space on human perception of distance /speed…so

we have varying width hallways

• Environment• Hallway – Parking Space - Warehouse

• Geometry• Effect of geometry of graphics on human perception of

distance/speed…so we have complex and simple

Experience

• Great!!• Achievements

– Exposure to some graphics hardware issues– Blender/OSG– Thesis Work– RayTracer– Linux– Exposure to Object-Oriented Programming

• Fun things:– Walking on Treadport and being pilots– Hiking– Cooking