Mitchell McKenna - tagged with 3d http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com Taking the Plunge http://mitchmckenna.com/post/15526/taking-the-plunge

When a young man's ideal marriage proposal is put in jeopardy he is forced to dive into unknown waters to salvage his plans...

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Wed, 27 May 2015 16:12:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/15526/taking-the-plunge/taking-the-plunge
JohnnyExpress http://mitchmckenna.com/post/14411/johnnyexpress

It's 2150 There are all sorts of Aliens living throughout space. Johnny is a Space Delivery Man who travels to different planets to deliver packages. Johnny is lazy and his only desire is to sleep in his autopilot spaceship. when the spaceship arrives at the destination, all he has to do is simply deliver the box. However, it never goes as planned. Johnny encounters strange and bizarre planets and always seems to cause trouble on his delivery route. Will he be able to finish his mission without trouble?

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Thu, 08 May 2014 18:44:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/14411/johnnyexpress/johnnyexpress
Halifax Mooseheads Pre-Game Show http://mitchmckenna.com/post/14322/halifax-mooseheads-pre-game-show

A 3D projection mapping show projected onto the ice surface at the Halifax Metro Centre in round two of the 2013/2014 QMJHL playoffs.

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Thu, 10 Apr 2014 02:12:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/14322/halifax-mooseheads-pre-game-show/halifax-mooseheads-pre-game-show
3D Display - Re-Imaging (Three.js & Leap Motion) http://mitchmckenna.com/post/12583/3d-display-re-imaging-threejs-amp-leap-motion

Robbie Tilton (check out his website - awesome design) created this cool video that looks like it's straight out of Minority Report or Iron Man using three.js and Leap Motion.

Using threejs I created a 3D scene and rendered four unique camera angles to reflect off of a plexi glass prism. It creates the illusion of a 3Dimensional volumetric display in it's most crude state. I also attached my Leap Motion to start controlling the globe with a simple point of the finger.

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Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:24:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/12583/3d-display-re-imaging-threejs-amp-leap-motion/3d-display-re-imaging-threejs-amp-leap-motion
Plankton Invasion - Web Series http://mitchmckenna.com/post/11044/plankton-invasion-the-web-series-the-north-sea-crab

I came across this web series after I had a seen the 850 Meters trailer by Joeri Christiaen of THURISTAR had worked on a previous web series called Plankton Invasion.

The series takes the serious subject of Climate Change through a different angle : Three plankton specimen - two soldiers and a scientist - are sent ashore to start operation “Global warming”. There are billions of them and they need more space, meaning more water. They are fighting for their species’ supremacy, by all means possible – minuscule means that is – to fuel Global Warming, drown all land… and rule the world.

There doesn't seem to be an order to the series, and the other's aren't quite as polished as this one, but there's a couple other good episodes called 15 Degrees and John Quichotte.

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Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:08:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/11044/plankton-invasion-the-web-series-the-north-sea-crab/plankton-invasion-the-web-series-the-north-sea-crab
Rise of the Guardians - Trailer http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10993/rise-of-the-guardians-official-trailer

It seems like a conversation you have as a kid at the lunch table "What if Santa, the Easter Bunny, The Sandman, Jack Frost and the Tooth Fairy were super heroes?! And they had to fight the Boogieman?!", only it looks like this conversation happened among adults and pitched it for a movie. They wrapped up some big names for the parts; Chris Pine, Isla Fisher, Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law and Dakota Goyo. It's a pretty neat twist on childhood stories, and the trailer for the animated movie looks pretty awesome.

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Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:27:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10993/rise-of-the-guardians-official-trailer/rise-of-the-guardians-official-trailer
A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked. The Story Behind Corning's Vision. http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10782/a-day-made-of-glass-2-unpacked-the-story-behind-cornings-vision

See how Corning's highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world. Take a journey with our narrator for details on these technologies, answers to your questions, and to learn about what's possible -- and what's not -- in the near future.

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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:17:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10782/a-day-made-of-glass-2-unpacked-the-story-behind-cornings-vision/a-day-made-of-glass-2-unpacked-the-story-behind-cornings-vision
Mozilla Tilt: A New Way of Visualizing the DOM http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9881/tilt-hacksmozillaorg-demo

Tilt represents a new way of visualizing a web page. I can it being a great tool for new developers to understand the DOM and the box model in particular. This tool creates a 3D representation of the document, with the purpose of displaying, understanding and easily analyzing the DOM. It is a firefox extension using a WebGL implementation to provide a rich user-experience, fun interaction and useful information, while taking full advantage of 3D hardware acceleration.

The implementation consists of a Firefox extension containing a 3D representation of a web page, as both a fun visualization tool and a developer-friendly environment for debugging the document's structure, contents and nesting of the DOM tree. Various information besides the actual contents will be displayed on request, regarding each node's type, class, id, and other attributes if available.

Read more at blog.mozilla.com/tilt/.

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Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:20:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9881/tilt-hacksmozillaorg-demo/tilt-hacksmozillaorg-demo
TRON: LEGACY - Daft Punk's "Derezzed" http://mitchmckenna.com/post/8610/tron-legacy-daft-punks-quotderezzedquot

TRON: LEGACY hits U.S. theaters on Dec. 17, 2010 in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D.

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TRON: LEGACY is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin Flynn (Oscar®- and Golden Globe®-winner Jeff Bridges), a man once known as the world's leading video-game developer. When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn's Arcade—a signal that could only come from his father—he finds himself pulled into a digital world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years. With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-or-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe—a universe created by Kevin himself that has become far more advanced with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape. Presented in Disney Digital 3D™ and scored by Grammy Award®-winning electronic music duo Daft Punk, TRON: LEGACY hits U.S. theaters on Dec. 17, 2010 in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D.

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Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:20:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/8610/tron-legacy-daft-punks-quotderezzedquot/tron-legacy-daft-punks-quotderezzedquot
Sony 360-Degree Display Prototype http://mitchmckenna.com/post/7885/sony-raymodeler-a-360-degree-autostereoscopic-display-prototype

Sony's 3D ambitions don't end with 3D TVs and the PS3. This cylindrical concept can be viewed from all angles, and will be at Tokyo's Digital Contents Expo this Thursday. The prototype is about 10.6-inches tall. It only supports a 24-bit, 96 by 128-pixel stereoscopic color image right now, but you don't need glasses to see the 3D effect. I just hope this can bring us one step closer to hologram-like TVs.

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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:47:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/7885/sony-raymodeler-a-360-degree-autostereoscopic-display-prototype/sony-raymodeler-a-360-degree-autostereoscopic-display-prototype
TEDxEdges - Open Titles http://mitchmckenna.com/post/7708/tedxedges-open-titles

“Glass pieces and particles come slowly together to form the TEDxEdges title, the same way people and ideas come together at the TED talks,” says main title designer Filipe Carvalho about his opening titles for the 2009 Lisbon TED event. Great choice in soundtrack and beautiful render too.

Check out an interview with the creator over at watchthetitles.com

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Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:33:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/7708/tedxedges-open-titles/tedxedges-open-titles
Minority Report Computer Interfaces Are Coming http://mitchmckenna.com/post/7495/john-underkoffler-points-to-the-future-of-ui

Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?

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Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:51:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/7495/john-underkoffler-points-to-the-future-of-ui/john-underkoffler-points-to-the-future-of-ui
Cool video game control from Omek Interactive http://mitchmckenna.com/post/7372/cool-video-game-control-from-omek-interactive

Techcrunch writes that Omek Interactive could blow Microsoft's Project Natal out of the water http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/06/omek-interactive-project-natal/ Here I meet co-founder and CEO Janine Kutliroff and get a short demo.

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Thu, 06 May 2010 23:02:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/7372/cool-video-game-control-from-omek-interactive/cool-video-game-control-from-omek-interactive
Tron Legacy Official Trailer #2 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/6655/tron-legacy-official-trailer-2

Coming to theaters 2010 in Disney Digital 3D.

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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:17:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/6655/tron-legacy-official-trailer-2/tron-legacy-official-trailer-2
Cross The Line http://mitchmckenna.com/post/6310/cross-the-line

"Don’t Fear Change. Cross The Line". A Short Clip by Dutch Design Agency Categorie 1.

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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:57:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/6310/cross-the-line/cross-the-line
50 Android Games In One Video http://mitchmckenna.com/post/6206/50-android-games-in-one-video

Smartphones such as Android devices have created many new opportunities for game developers. To help developers get started and catch the Android wave, Google™ and The Game Developers Conference are working together to provide complimentary Android phones to qualifying mobile game developers.

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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:25:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/6206/50-android-games-in-one-video/50-android-games-in-one-video
Sneak peek of new Adobe Photoshop CS5 technologies http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5800/sneak-peek-of-new-adobe-photoshop-cs5-technologies-wwwcs5org

The video shows a selection of features that are being developed by Photoshop Labs, including Painter-style brushes, a new warp tool and more. Do you see the 3D elements that have been thrown in? The wire frame, the joints (the kinematics!), the simulation of a paint brush's tip... it's really quite crazy.

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Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:37:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5800/sneak-peek-of-new-adobe-photoshop-cs5-technologies-wwwcs5org/sneak-peek-of-new-adobe-photoshop-cs5-technologies-wwwcs5org
Ataque de Pánico! (Panic Attack!) 2009 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5579/ataque-de-panico-panic-attack-2009

The world is under attack from gigantic ungainly robots plodding slowly through the streets vaporising civilians as they go. Well I for one welcome our intergalactic robotic overlords. Come on in, have a cup of tea and a sit down. Just don't explo...

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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:43:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5579/ataque-de-panico-panic-attack-2009/ataque-de-panico-panic-attack-2009
Projection on Buildings http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5482/projection-on-buildings

NuFormer Digital Media develops high-skill 3D video mapping projections. These 3D projections are custom-made to fit any specific building and are exposed by a battery of powerful projectors.

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:58:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5482/projection-on-buildings/projection-on-buildings
Pigeon: Impossible http://mitchmckenna.com/post/4967/pigeon-impossible

Plot: A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.

Pigeon: Impossible is a marvelous CG animated short by Lucas Martell. This was Lucas’ first attempt at animation, taking him 5 years to create the film.

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:26:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/4967/pigeon-impossible/pigeon-impossible