Form Z Animation

Here is an PDF tutorial of how to make animation

using the Wexner Center model. (or find the FormZ file at Ellen's machine)

Animated Gif

How to create animated gif or morphing stuff.

Form Z QTVR

How to make a QTVR object movie or panoramic movie from Form Z

Panoramic

Quick guide on making movies and panoramic picture.

Form Z to VRML

Check this page or go directly to

http://www.cda.ucla.edu/caad/Class_Notes/VRML_f/sessionVRML.html

Form Z Exploded

http://www.cda.ucla.edu/caad/Class_Notes/Modeling/fmz_session/FormZ_Session.html

Form Z

Crash course on Form Z by CMU students

http://www.arc.cmu.edu/courses/48-460/digital/formz1.html.

Official Form Z web site (check the support / resources page, many good tutorials there).

http://www.formz.com.

PhotoShop

An introductory class on manipulating pictures.

http://www.cda.ucla.edu/caad/Class_Notes/Painting/Photoshop_Folder/Photoshop.html

Official PhotoShop Tutorials

http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html

QTVR

Utilities to make Panoramic pictures. Using QuickTime Virtual Reality

http://www.livepicture.com

http://www.pictureworks.com/download/index.html

Tutorial on Quick Time Virtual Reality

Tutorial on QTVR

Webbing

Activate your Web Publishing

http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/start.html

Authoring Web pages

http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/author.html

Moving Files

http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/publish.html

HTML

Getting Started

http://courses.washington.edu/arch370/winter00/lesson.html

Detail Tutorial

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html

Hyper Text Mock-up Language Quick Reference

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/

Color Codes 

Color Reference in Hex Code Red-Green-Blue

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group

http://www.mpeg.org

QuickEditer Movie Editing

http://wild.ch/quickeditor/index.html

More Form-Z

Getting into it Form Z Tutorial

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~arch222/tutor/INDEX/FormZindex.html

A short history of Form Z

http://www.formz.com/web_site_2000/content_pages/about_us/about_company.htm

Lighting and Texture

http://www.cda.ucla.edu/caad/Class_Notes/RZ_Folder/Lights.html

http://www.cda.ucla.edu/caad/Class_Notes/RZ_Folder/RenderZone.html

VRML

Virtual Reality Modeling Language Introduction

http://staff.washington.edu/larryg/Classes/Rvrml/zz-vrml.html

Quick and Easy Site Model building with Photographs as texture maps

http://www.cda.ucla.edu/caad/Class_Notes/VRML_f/sessionVRML.html

VRML Plugin

Cosmo Player

http://www.cosmosoftware.com

Intervista WorldView

http://www.intervista.com

Web 3D Service Downloads

http://vrweb.vdigm.com/vr_pds/

Computer Associates (CAI) downloads

http://www.cai.com/cosmo/

Shareware Downloads

http://www.download.com

http://www.tucows.com

Flash

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/

RTF software and documentation

http://www.dubois.ws/software/RTF/
http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm

a document format that can be opened and used by most word processing programs

http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/site_help/rtf_hints.htm

a little Flash tool for designing a house and basic 3-D walkthrough

http://www.smallblueprinter.com/

History of Mapmaking

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/maphis.html

How to make a map

http://griots.tripod.com/vista/map_making.html

ARTIFICIAL-SIGHT RESEARCH

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vision.html

What can blind people see?

http://www.rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fctsheet/poster.htm

A drawing program for the visually impaired

http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/ic2d/

What are cellular automata?

http://cgi.student.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/d95-aeh/get/lifeeng

http://life.csu.edu.au/complex/tutorials/tutorial1.html
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/AI/alife/al-ca.htm

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/AI/alife/al-autom.htm

animated models

http://flying-pig.co.uk/

Museum of Automata

http://www.cabaret.co.uk/

OpenGL Overview

http://www.opengl.org/
http://www.sgi.com/software/opengl/

The Structure & Function of Eyes

http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bsci111b/eye/supplemental.htm

The Logical Approach to Seeing 3D

http://www.vision3d.com/3views.html

3-D eye exercises, games, puzzles

http://www.vision3d.com/

How Vision Works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/eye7.htm

An essay on the ideological and technological conditioning of our ways of seeing both art and the world

"Ways of Seeing"
by John Berger, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1991

A comprehensive account of the biology of vision

"Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing"
by Margaret Livingstone, New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2002

this book is a collection of pictures or diagrams that help the reader see why a particular mathematical statement may be true, and also to see how one might begin to go about proving it true

"Proofs Without Words II: More Exercises in Visual Thinking"
by Roger B. Nelsen, Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, 2000

A book talking about Visual Thinking

"Visual Thinking"
by Rudolf Arnheim, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969

"Visual thinking for architects and designers : visualizing context in design"
by Ron Kasprisin, James Pettinari, New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995

A movie about collecting images so that blind people can see

"Until the end of the world"
a film by Wim Wenders; Australian Film Finance Corp., Warner Bros Warner Home Video, 1992

"At first sight"
by Irwin Winkler, 1998

Visual Thinking Tools

http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/VisThinkTools/start.htm

Visual Thinking Definition

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~design/ART/NAB/visthnk1.html

Visual Understanding in Education (VUE)

http://www.vue.org/

Puzzle World contains information about many of the finest handcrafted mechanical puzzles in the world.

http://www.johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/

Puzzle Museum

http://www.puzzlemuseum.com/

Ultimate Puzzle Site

http://puzzle.dse.nl/index_us.html

If you're looking for some models to fold, you've found the right site.

http://www.origami.com/

The British Origami Society

http://www.britishorigami.org.uk/

What is Origami?

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/origami.htm

Digital Tangram

http://www.cs.uu.nl/~markov/kids/tangram/

This site features history of Tangram, puzzles of the month and other Tangram related articles and stuffs.

http://members.aol.com/sth777/page00.html