Glass panel
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I am trying to come up with the easiest way of replicating a dialog box that will be displayed on a glass panel. I don't know if I should just draw it as lines in SU or import .png images of what I want. It would be similar to what was used in Ironman or in Minority Report. If anyone has suggestions that would be awesome.
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I reckon youd probably be best of drawing it in a graphics package and saving it as a .png image. This would allow you to keep the trasparency fairly easily and would be a lot easier than drawing it in SU.
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Amo,
Is this what you're trying to do?
First I made the panel with a transparent window in it. Then make it a group. Then I made a second face and pasted a texture onto it and made this a group as well. Now you can edit the second face with any image you want without changing the original panel.
Tom
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I think the most simple and effortless way is just to use ordinary images and turn down the opacity a bit - this will create a very basic effect like the glass panels in those movies.
(this is just a very quick test of the effect. the people are from 3D warehouse)if you want a more realistic effect, you should consider using a render engine to get some reflections on the glass panels (indigo is my favourite - amazingly powerful and for free!). but therefore you need to model the surroundings rather detailed to get satisfactory reflections.
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Thanks for your input. I still have some time before this will happen, since my thesis hasn't technically started yet. I am getting the mindless things that I want in my project out of the way right now.
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what is your thesis about? is it about new computer-user interaction ore something? would love to hear some more about it
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My thesis is a 21st century / new age architecture school. I am using UCONNs campus as the site location even though I go to school in RI. I am using new technology that changes the way that architecture students/architects will design and present their ideas. The major part of the design is the studio space and the review spaces. Both are going to be using the "Multi-touch displays that Jeff Han has developed. These will be used for drawing the designs in AutoCAD, SU, Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. so there is the feel of the old school way of drawing but with a modern and technological twist.
In the review spaces the walls will be these screens so the students only have to attach a thumb drive or a newer type of storage device and display there projects digitally while looking like a print out. The displays being interactive will allow students to blow up sections for more clarity or rearrange them in any way they want. The other part of the review is going to be a room that the students can upload there 3D model to and it will project it on the walls as if you are walking through the building when it is built, the other option was to have a holographic model displayed that the student can spin around or interact with during the presentation.
The reason I posted the question I did is, I am going to have this keypad I came up with next to the doors in the building. But, mostly on the studio doors since they might become a room that each student has by themselves. So, you will need a password or code to open the door. The other idea I came up with is a bracelet that you have to wear to enter the building, otherwise the main doors will not open for you. But the first part might change from the keypad to that being linked to the bracelet you are wearing (similar to an ID card at college.)
Let me know what you think, plot-paris.
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oh, what a wonderful topic
this is exactly what I have been dreaming of for my whole studies (I am afraid I will graduate before such a wonderful high-tech school is established).the use of multitouch displays is in my opinion the logical next step for achitects - combining the many advantages of a computer with the precision of using a pen (have you ever tried to write your name with a mouse?
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I dont know if it is possible already, but the perfect solution would be a screen that can distinguish between a hand and a pen (thus hand input being used for navigation and access of menues, while pen input creates geometry - so its very much like real world use of hands and pens...). I bet you would be less tense after a day's work too.the use of large displays instead of paper plots for presentation (and revisions) would be a great improvement. not only because you save a lot of paper (and money) but because you can embed 3D models in your pdf-plans (surely you would use pdf for small file size and documentation).
the bracelet is a good idea too. you could enter the university premises as well as pay for your lunch in the cafeteria or access your personal uni-network account (with additional password, fingerprint or retinascan for more security)...
oh dear. I could go on for hours (if I didn't have to work
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This sonds like a pretty sweet topic to work on. How realistic does your idea have to be? are we talking decades in the future or a decade?
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Thanks. There isn't a time span that it has to be inside, I am trying to find improvements for the field starting in school where most of it starts anyways. I am envisioning that since this kind of technology just got developed/ing that it wont hit the market for 5-10 years (my guess.) I have been trying to come up with security issues since the building would be extremely high tech and a lot of expensive gadgetry, but I wanted to stay away from retina scans and that sort of thing at least for the main entrance being that I don't want there to be a lag time for doors to open in front of you. This way as the students/teachers etc. can walk up to glass sliding doors and not have to wait for them to open. Which is why I came up with the bracelet, similar to key fob technology that I have seen buildings use to enter a main door but this will allow them to send a signal to a sensor that will either open the door or keep it locked. The entrance I want to look as if it is a solid piece of glass and you get close to the doors and they slide open, and with a set behind so no stragglers can follow you in. The second set will close if someone tries to get inside without a bracelet.
I'll attach part of my document if you want to breeze through it sometime. The only big part I haven't come up with a great solution for is classrooms. Unless they become a tutor style class or one on one with the professor in your studio "room." But I still have a lot to think about, for most of the building. I have been shocked that no one at my school has done this kind of project. I originally wanted to base it on my campus but it kinda of got shot down by my thesis adviser.
p-p where do you go to school?
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Not quite what Amo was envisaging, but it's a step closer. Enjoy.
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