Creative Coding Spring 2025

Week 1

Course overview & logistics:
syllabus; schedule.
Content introduction: Intro to course.
Class information: questionnaire.
Intro to Unity (1-31)

Readings + Videos:
VR Typography
Screen by Noah Wardrip-Fruin
The Virtual Frontier by Angela Riechers
Jeffrey Shaw, The Legible City, 1988-91.
CC Student Past Projects CAVE2 Projects

Assignment 1

VR Presentation

Week 2

Class VR presentations
Team Formation
VR Project Introduction and Discussion

Concept Presentation

Readings + Videos:
Unity 3D Essential Training by Adam Crespi/ Ch. 1, 2, 4

Assignment 2

VR Project Proposal

Week 3

Proposal Presentations /Unity VRE,import/export/assets

Readings + Videos:
Unity 2021 Essential Training by Emmanuel Henri (1-4)
CAVE2 IMMERSES SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS IN THEIR RESEARCH – LITERALLY!
CAVE2 Informational Video

Assignment 3
VR Project Proposal Revisions

Week 4

CAVE2 demos /CAVE2 Unity template /Peer Review
Download Unity template for CAVE2 Environment
CAVE2 Unity Tutorial

Readings + Videos:
Unity 2021 Essential Training by Emmanuel Henri (1-4)

Assignment 4
Unity Assets / Scene

Week 5

VR Typography - from Illustrator to Unity / Team presentations / Team worksessions
How to import 3D type into Unity
Collaborative Development in Unity

Readings + Videos:
Maya Essential Training with George Maestri (1-4, 5-12)(optional)
UV mapping tutorial -cracker box (optional)

Assignment 4
Unity assets / scene revisions

Week 6

Intro to Scripting

Readings + Videos:
C# for Unity Game Development course 1-4
V.O.T.E. video - theater and VR by Jeff Nyhoff
Object Exercises video by Jeff Nyhoff, some of the earliest exercises in Stanislavski's "method."
How theatre vocabulary and technique can be used in designing using experiences: Stanislavski's "Magic If" video by Jeff Nyhoff

Assignment 5
VRE scene aesthetics

 

Week 7

Improv

Readings + Videos:
V.O.T.E. video - theater and VR by Jeff Nyhoff
Object Exercises video by Jeff Nyhoff, some of the earliest exercises in Stanislavski's "method."
How theatre vocabulary and technique can be used in designing using experiences: Stanislavski's "Magic If" video by Jeff Nyhoff

Assignment 6
VR project basic Interaction (2)

 

Week 8

Interaction, Color, Components, Instantiate
Collisions, Transformations
Peer Review

Readings + Videos:
Particle Systems video
exercise
Unity 3D Essential Training by Adam Crespi/ Ch. 3, 7, 8, 9

Assignment 7
VR project interaction (4)
 

 

Week 9

Teleport, Collisions, Parenting

Mouse_Keyboard to CAVE2 Wand Input
Guide for running Unity in CAVE2

Export for CAVE2 Testing
Audio Editing

Readings + Videos:
Basic Audio editing
download audacity
Spatial Audio in Unity
Unity 3D Essential Training by Adam Crespi/ Ch. 10

Assignment 8
Final Interaction (6)/ Audio

 

Week 10

Test 1 in the CAVE2 / Team worksessions

Assignment 10

Test 1 revisions

 
Week 11

Testing 2 in the CAVE2 / Team worksessions/ Peer Review

Assignment 11

Test 2 revisions

 
Week 12

VR Project Exhibition in the CAVE2

Assignment
VR Project Documentation
SIGGGRAPH Posters/ Student Research Competition / April 24
Content Documentation Guidelines are bet from CHI Student Design Competition Submission

 

Week 13
CAVE Photo Session / Team worksessions

Assignment

SIGGGRAPH Posters/ Student Research Competition / April 24
VR Project Documentation

 

Week 14
Team worksessions

Assignment

SIGGGRAPH Posters/ Student Research Competition / April 24
VR Project Documentation

 

Week 15

Final Review

Assignment

UIST Posters/ HCI International Student Design Competition
HCI International Student Design Competition
VR Project Documentation

 

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