mid valley ar

yesterday christine held another AR meeting, this time it's about mid valley. so... we had some ideas but they are just too mainstream. so, christine asked us to do group mind mapping, which allows us to write anything that comes into our mind with a given word on the mind map. and this is our result:

This is the mind map we did, it's messy and not constructive before filtering wordss.

These are the filtered words from the mind map, which are unusual words that is linked to mid valley.

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Back to the rigging part, luckily i've checked the tutorial before proceeding, as the tutor used another method to rig instead of the first method for the finger rig/hand rig. i guess it's not easy to rig something, especially a good and advanced one.

oh finally the arm rig is done!

ok, just the arm rig, you still have the hand rig to do. although the rig is attached to the arm, but i think the rotation axis of the FK arm rig is wrong but nevermind... it's kinda late to fix it now. now i know the importance of orientating the local rotate axises. anyway, i will proceed to the hand rig and see how that turns out.

yesterday night i came across some fun stuff at 9gag, and this is one of them. Koreans seems to have a helper to clean the chalk board but it will be expensive to install such robot in schools.

and this is in the air port of miami, they made the windows colourful so it would never be the same old window again! the sunlight which shines through the window projects rainbow onto the corridor, and visitors will never look at the corridor the same way like they used to

First Post

This is a log of what I have done for the last friday.

I am still rigging the arm following the tutorial I've downloaded but it seems the tutor himself did some mistake and I've followed up until where he made the mistake. Then I followed his steps in correcting the rig, but I am not sure if the arm is rigged the way I made it to.

It is somehow confusing because there are two arm rigs, an IK and an FK arm rig. I am not sure what does FK arm rig do, but I am guessing its for convenience of animating the arm later on. Still trying to explore this kind of advanced rig tho.

As for the last Thursday, the important event that is worth writing it here is the idea sharing for Augmented Reality application for Mc Donald's.

Alex suggested we could create an app for ordering which generates QR code after you've picked your menu and scan it at the Drive Thru station to quicken the ordering process at Drive Thru stations. The app also calculates the grand total you need to pay, thus you can prepare the money needed to be paid before you order. Li San also gave a similar idea to Alex's. Vincent, he had a similar idea but with a little change of it. He said the Drive Thru should have a kiosk with a touch screen, and folks without a smart phone to generate QR code still could order their food and with that it can solve the communication problem which exist now, due to the fact that McD is using microphone and speakers to take orders from customers. Li Shin added on that rewards can be tied to this system with point collection whenever they purchase through this method.

I gave a total of 5 ideas, which all of them are less business mechanism based or rather they are fun based. First idea is the make the cup filled with water with characters swimming in it whenever smart phones read markers on or in the cup, or make a surprise for lucky customers to win away freebies using this method.

The second idea is to make collectibles - in this case a cup cushion, with illustration of McD characters on it. This way, we can use it as a cup cushion and view a digital sculpture using smart phones. 2 in 1, not a bad deal eh? CJ also mentioned a similar idea, which is to collect points thru the collection system.

The third idea is to make McD's newspaper ad in a marker form, this way McD can save space and money whenever they advertise on newspapers. Moreover, the size of the ad can be adjusted in the digital space (I think it's possible tho)

The fourth idea is to make an app, I called it the look-a-like. Whenever a smartphone's camera is pointing at a person's face, they make them look like a McD character according to their facial features.

The fifth idea is to make balloons be detected as a Big Mac in smart phones, be it a hot air ballon, helium ballon or birthday balloons during birthday parties. However, I thought it would be cool if a flash mob wearing a shirt with marker walking down the street and ask passerby's to view them with smart phones, it would be cool to see Big Macs walking around the street in the screen.

I think that's all I have to say...