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Crysis Town Hall Map

The only real thing about Town Hall is the walls that are holding it together. Being completly underground the walls and ceiling is what is keeping the ground from caving in on us as we travel to and from the town hall station. Walls in a sense are simple, easy and not detailed at all, but however basic walls are they are essential to keeping a building upright in allowing people into or out of buildings. The pathways people everyday are regular and consistent. On public transport most chose the same carriage, same seat if they are able, get off and chose the easiest route for them to exit. What happens when that pathway is gone and you are only left with a chose pathway to exit? What happens when you reach the top only to find you are blocked from actually leaving the station? What happens when you retrace your steps only to find that you are no longer able to go back the way you came?


I understand that as I have included very little in my crysis model as my concept did not give me the right to not model everything in town hall. I have modelled all parts in solidworks and have included the files for them as well. I also would like to note that in my assembly for the model in solidworks I only included the stairs so that I would be able to make sure that they fit in properly. Everything else is included in seperate parts files.

SolidWorks Models

Here is the link to my Solidworks, CGF, Max and all other types of models or goodies that I needed for this assignment. My apologies Vinh that it is on Filefront as I know that MediaFire is your preference but as I was trying to upload it that particular site it was telling me that there were failures. But I did try and download from filefront and it appeared to work.

http://www.filefront.com/14862049/z3292471.zip

And here is the link to my crysis map:
http://www.filefront.com/14867903/z3292471.cry

Research Project

With this video I wanted to explore the differences and ease of use when using the sketchup to crysis and the solidworks to crysis workflows when you have simple, complex, linear and curvilinear shapes. With this research originally I wanted to prove that Solidworks to Crysis was easier and a better program to use in order to model for Crysis, however in my opinion my research took me another direction in that I found sketchup was not only easier to do but that it was the better program to do it in as it had less details that could go wrong, or if there was something that went wrong it was an easy fix and not something inexplicable that would pop up again later on.

Basic Model Crysis Images

Installation Test

This is what I wish to accomplish with my installation. Wherein you are able to enter a space/ stairwell/ level/ escalator, but after you pass through you are no longer able to exit to turn around and go another way.

Reflection On ARUP Lecture

The lecture from Steven Bull from ARUP was insightful in the sense that it developed ideas about how interactive research is progressing in the real world. Both Dubai and China have started their own Eco cities in which they have researched transportation and movement through-out the whole city. This seems to completely mirror the fact of how in our current project we are refelecting on the movement through town hall station.

Multiplayer Test

Weird Happening When Moving "Door"

This is what happened when I tried to make a fence a door in my map. Not really relevant but interesting so I thought I would capture it and share.

LightHouse Particle Effect

Realism

Realism and how it relates to my town hall model. With my model I wanted to explore how people flow through the station in accordance to getting from platform to platform and using the stairs. I find the different way people use the stairs within a station at different periods of time interesting. I believe this focus would make me focus on the stairs and escalators being real. The concept I would like explore with my model is the concept of What happens when stairs can't get as easily or at all from point A to point B?
How I would express this in the model would be to insert installations at the head of the stairs or on the stairs. What questions I hope to answer by stimulation as of now would be:
1) What happens to crowd movement if there is a row of people standing at the top of the stairs blocking all but one persons way?
2) What happens if the ticket barriers were placed on the stairs instead of on the concourse?
3) What happens if the stairs were still there but were missing half of the walkway in different patterns all the way up (or down) them?
4) What happens if instead of having an escalator going all the way down to platform 4,5 and 6 you have to take it down to 1,2 and 3 and then switch to another escalator?

Research

On going to town hall we decided the best way to obtain information about it would be to go in a large group and have each and everyone of us working on getting dimensions for geometry, light and sound. Once there we had planned to divide up into smaller groups to tackle different areas of the station. One group on each platform as well as one group on the concourse.
The methods we had decided on originally to gather dimensions through walking along the platforms counting steps and multiplying by the size of our steps. Smaller details we had to measure by eye, as well as try to sneakily measure them as we were being watched completly by CityRail staff.
To record for later observations we had decided to take pictures in order to accurately measure material and light. However, before we had even entered into the station (gone past the barriers) we were called out for taking a picture. From then on we had to sneak pictures in order to not get in trouble anymore. We also found the evacuation plans helpful for were stairs and escalotors end up on platforms but had to distract flag guards from watching us take pictures because they would always seem to hung where the flag guard was standing.

Measuring

Light: Sight, Reflection, Camera
Sound: Video Recording
Materiality: Feel, Image Captures, Comparison
Geometry: Tape Measure, Laser Measure, Ruler, Image Capture With Reference Measurements, Architectural Plans
Interaction: Survey, Observation, Contacting Cityrail for ticket barrier information

Model into Crysis

File Links

Sketchup Ramp Model:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=44e55044704d4892bdbc19db07a3b19f

Crysis Environment Map:
http://www.filefront.com/14449817/NSnowee-NissaBettess-3292741.cry/

Final Video Documenting Explosions

150 Words

Observational Documentaries are used to test, trial and draw conclusions from a hypothesis using film as a medium to record what happens. In exploring porosity in my environment I decided that an observational documentary would be the most logical in presenting my ideas, as I like the viewers am curious as to the results of my experiment will be and will draw my conclusions from the facts that are presented to me in the documentation. Like all observational documentaries however, my conclusions are biased in what the film maker is trying to get across as their arguement.
In using the observational documentary I plan to first lay out a question in which I hope to answer using short abrupt clips of explosions. Using the clips I hope to help make the viewer come to the same conclusion that I have, which I share at the end. I then plan to place a clip after my findings that provides complete evidence to which I have just proved the answer to my question. I chose to use this method of experimental science because I felt I had a question that I wanted answered and I was out to prove my hypothesis on it. I believe I have achieved this.

Vegas Movie

Week 3- Pickable Object

Third Week Task

Explosion 3

Explosion 2

Explosion One

Explosion Hypothesis

My hypothesis for the reaction of the buildings when a grenade is thrown is that the direct area near where the grenade has landed will explode and make an impact around that area. I don't believe that in a larger building it will do much overall damage and the building will still be standing. However I imagine that it will make at least some damage in that immediate location.

First Week Clip

Test Environment In Crysis