Nice Weekend

Finally finished setting up in west. I had my room reassigned into West and had to move everything from H-quad. Really enjoying it and getting better sleep, should help me with my studies. I've been doing a lot of thinking and self observation lately. I really notice how I take on different personalities and emotions when talking to certain people. I also noticed how much anxiety really controls me. It's also so easy to make excuses when I'm facing fear, but for some reason I make that excuse a truth to me and completely ignore the fact that I'm avoiding it. Social anxiety is such a problem and I'm interested in trying different things to overcome it. Many people say that the only way to conquer fear is to face, and I believe that. I'm trying to get myself out more and trying to meet more people. Sometimes it's a little hard to socialize here though, a lot of people just sit in their rooms with their doors closed. Really get's depressing sometimes, but that's why I need to get out and do something with myself. Didn't mean to ramble on, but it's something I've been thinking seriously about.

Hammer Time

Well, later today I will be testing out importing Sketchup models into hammer. Quite a complicated process which involves many steps, but if done correctly we can actually import our models fully textured. The tutorial seems pretty simple to follow and we will hopefully be able to find a quick way of accomplishing this. Wish I had more time to put work into this and my models, but this week has been pretty hectic. Between midterms, projects, programming assignments, and my new room assignment, I've had no time for anything. I have to move out of my building this weekend and that's going to be an annoying process. Well let's hope for the best and pray that we don't run into errors during the exporting process.

Abstraction

This is my abstrtact stuff

Textures

Here are some textures i put together in windows movie maker

Touch Screens

We were talking about how we can edit the way that children learn.. i think it would be cool if the child's desk was touch screen and the teacher can read w.e. the children right, perhaps it shows up on the board. I know the droid uses heat sensors to have a touch screen. I also found these 2 links that show how to make a touch screen table or touch screen whiteboard for a decent price
http://current.com/technology/90058495_how-to-save-money-and-get-a-cool-interactive-multitouch-display.htm
http://current.com/1tk624c

Small House

this is the start of my house still needs some work but i figured id get on it

greenhouse transparency

the link didn't work before...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gVa6-UYNJ4