Mabel Zhang

I'm a second-year Computer Science major. I hit a lucky star one day and was accepted into the 2008 Cailt2 Undergraduate Summer Scholars Research Program, which runs for 10 weeks with wonderful events and ends with a poster session.

2008 Calit2 Summer Undergraduate Research Program

I'm currently working on the Virtual Calit2 Building under the advisory of Dr. Jürgen Schulze. The objective in the project is to add dynamic elements so that the model is more realistic and can thus provide better experience for demos and experiments conducted in the StarCAVE using the model.

Week 1

3ds Max tutorials

Week 2

Automatic opening doors

Week 3

Some optimization using Max Modifiers like MultiRes, automatic close doors

Week 4 to 8

Elevator

Week 9 to 19

Indoor lighting, sunlight

I will be adding important documentation, results, and screenshots from the project to this and the Calit2 model project page. For now, let's primarily spend time on the actual model since summer is evaporating away and the poster session is approaching.