Term 3 Assessment

Significant Concept: Natural Environment and the  impact of the Digital One

Unit Question: How has technology influenced the world around us?

a) What is a collage?

A collage is group of photos that are put into a designed form, the images are put into a a shape that represents a theme. The word collage comes from France and means gluing.

b) What are they used for?

They are used in many modern art forms and can include bits of fabric or snippets of newspapers or magazines. The can convey a theme that will be used to spread awareness of a certain topic and can help gain people's favour for world problems such as global warming or poverty etc. Collages may be used for diagnosing and treating psychological illnesses by making the patients aware of any problems that they may have. Collages can be used to  

c)  What do they look like?

It can be abstract or have a definite theme and might even be in the shape of something that it represents. The collage can take on many shapes.

6)  Design Brief 

I am creating a collage to spread awareness about a certain topic/theme that will represent an issue in the world that has little awareness or the gravity of its situation in the world. I think that the collage needs to spread throughout the internet for people to understand and share.

http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/lao/issue_21/LAO_XXI_McClellan_collage_leadership_education.pdf

Final Reflection

Thank you for the feedback, the reflection was somewhat specific towards the Unity Project. The explanations could use a lot more detail as it was quite brief and could be more detailed. 

Thank you Abdul, the tech fair idea was a good one but it was unfortunate that we couldn't create it in time. I think that i need to add more detail to my reflections in addition to what you have mentioned. It was going quite well until the last few days before the date it was due in. If I was to do this again i would start earlier as to allow time for any failures.

Overall, this project was quite a difficult one to partake in as it required a lot of work to be completed in a shorter amount of time. Starting earlier would have helped

Process and Reflection

The process that we decided to take was going straight to into it and experimenting with the different game mechanics before looking through tutorials. The game itself was going to be quite simple and we didn't know what genre of the game we should make.

We then started looking up tutorials to try and experiment with more complex scripts pulled from the creation of an example project. After trying the scripts out we imported the character models to use along with the animation. It was going well so far...

The process of writing scripts took almost the entire weekend and finally we were ready to test out the game. That's where the problem began. The tutorials were made for a certain example project and referenced a lot of scripts that we weren't using and created a lot of compile errors when the game tried to run. The problems then became worse after we reset the entire world and tried to start again and the entire Unity stopped working and did not let us reinstall. Finally, we couldn't submit the creation as it wouldn't run and the game scripts couldn't compile. I feel that if we could have planned out our design better and started earlier we could have finished it in time or could have started again but we couldn't as there was only a day left.
If we were to do this again then we would start a lot earlier as to have enough time to restart if the game stops working or has glitches etc. Unity is quite a complex game design and professional games require months or even years to create. We didn't go for the Tech Fair due to our disorganised planning and the last-minute starting of the project.

Final Idea

For our final idea we decided to create a professional game using the Unity 3D software or Cryengine 3 depending on whether or not we have the minimum graphics card.

The Unity Software is a game creation software that can be used to create professional games. We have not yet decided upon the genre or the type of game but we will. 

This is the link to the Official Unity 3D webpage. 

http://unity3d.com/unity

Tech Fair Ideas

My first Tech idea is an printer built with with the nxt mind storm. It will print with one marker onto an A4 price of paper. 

Hardware

NXT Mindstorm Lego

Marker

Paper

Software

NXT Mindstorm programming.

Advantages

Can be fine tuned to preference

Disadvantage

Hard to transport

Easily breakable

My second tech fair idea is a professional 3D game built with Unity 3D.

Hardware
Computer

Software
Unity 3D

Advantage
The graphics are very professional
The coding is very easy and is drag and drop.

Disadvantages
The entire process might take a long time

My final tech fair idea is a robotic object mover which will transport small objects around a room.

Advantages
Can be useful

Disadvantage
Might be quite rough and might break.

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