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better version：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtjFRxtdYck

research tutorial：

I haven’t use outclass research link to do my tutorial video. But I have looked through a lot, then I decided to make a tutorial video that demonstrate how to export model from sketch up to sandbox and using flow graph to make entity act as we expect to. Its basic tutorial for people who doesn’t know flow graph and don’t know how to export model from software to other software.

This tutorial video is divided into 4 steps: play up installing and using, creating new environment in sandbox, adding entity to sandbox and using flow graph. The play up plug-in tool is important when we try to export model to sandbox,  and  also the path.

（to be continue, by the way, hope you enjoy the tutorial）

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BRIEF:
In this video I had three themes: moving entity, rotating entity, glowing entity. All of them connect with analysis engine. Light intensity from pachube feed is express through glowing entity, the flowgraph allow us to get the data for analysing.
moving entity is a way to show how space changes when the light changes position and people goes through.The higher intensity of the light, the larger space people will fill in.Low light intensity in the night without natural lights will make the space around light invisible.
rotating entity creates odd shape of the shadow also divide the light in odd shape, which makes the space have inconstant shapes.
By analysing the moving entity's average velocity， the data will be collected and visible for viewer to see.

map file to download：http://www.gamefront.com/files/20978807/3369341_Exp2.zip

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demonstration1:

DEMONSTRATION2:

EX2-WEEK3-INDEPENDET STUDY

1:visualizing of bible

the visualizetion depiets all 1189 chapters of the bible as a bar graph along the bottom of the illustration， the length of each bar are proportional to the number of verses in the chapter.

 2:a visual history of united states senate

this graph is telling us the information of united state senators in the history and using different colour to represent different party and it is easy to tell when the different parties has greater power in the policy。

3:race to the moon 

This detail map explains the story of this constest in a clear and informative manner.

demonstration of my analytics engine

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for conclusion, my discussion with Fei Feng Yan, my ex2 will focus on the relationship between space and light, I'll express the feed by using opening space with lights which the space between lights and people is shorter, the intensity of the luminous of the light is higher, which is that through a inverse way to express my understand of the feed.

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RESEARCH LINK:
1：http://www.moddb.com/groups/cryengine-2-developers/tutorials/cryengine-flowgraph-tutorial
a very detail introduction about flow graph and how to use some simple methods.

Analysis engine brief：
The feed that I have found is about the relationship between space and light which the lit floor is depending
on amount of people. And the analysing by the flow graph shows how distance changes when the character moves around the map, it also connect to the space,the space can be changed by the moving restrictive walls or the intensity of the light.

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flow graph with comment ：

part1：

 part2：

analysis video：

flow graph link：

1：http://freesdk.crydev.net/display/SDKDOC2/Setting+Up+a+Simple+AI+in+Flow+Graph

this website is a tutorial which describe how to make an AI character walk and through this process to analysis AI.

2：

image source

this picture shows how the flow graph work when we are doing flow chart analyzing,

EX2-WEEK1-INDEPENDENT STUDY

"The sense of space is created using light. The number of people entering and leaving a room directly correlates to the floor area which is lit up. As more people enter the room the lit floor area increases. As more of the floor area lights up the concept of a larger space is created."

SWOT analysis:

Strengths:

The description of this feed has great expression of the relationship of space, light and people.

Weaknesses:

without the arrangement of the luminous intensity of the light, it's hard to work out how the luminous intensity of the light effect the space and this pachube feed could have more attention to the relationship between light and space, and do not explain to much about space and the floor area connect to each other.


Opportunities:
The way to take advantage of this feed is party with increasing amount of people. The requirement of space when the amount of people increase would exceed, and after analysis the relationship between light and space, then we can control the space by changing the luminous intensity of the light.
like in a concert:

image source:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Zdravko_%C4%8Coli%C4%87_concert_-_Spaladium_Arena_-_light_show.jpg

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FLOWGRAPH

average speed of moving entity

CLEAR VIERSION OF ASSIGNMENT1

ASSIGNMENT 1 -FINAL SUBMISSION

sketchup model：

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=fccdd5ba557bd49cc98282cb54af09bc&result=4

play file

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20766553/Quarry.zip

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SORRY, BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET USAGE IS OVERLOAD, SO THE FINAL SUBMISSION WILL BE LATE FOR A FEW MINUTES

WEEK5-INDEPENDENT STUDY

I am going to using two mods combine together as my final machinima documentary. One mod is my original one and the other one is set quarry as crysis environment. By combining these two mods, my inspire ideas are from Paul Virilio's concept of "pure war" and my Pachube sensor, and two flowgraph tutorial videos. Watching through this documentary will express my definition of real time environment war - defending and recapture.
"“A MUTATED FORM OF WAR THAT EXISTS IN A PURE STATE OF PERMANENT PREPARATION FOR AND ANTICIPATION OF ACTUAL WARFARE.” when the first time, our homeland was attacked by intruders, it is must be the time for us to pick up weapons and defending our homeland to avoid beyond number damnum. From the first clew of war, we have to have prepared for long time, called anticipation of actual warfare. A sense of  holy and inviolable should be conveyed by the music and the determination to retrieve the territory also called up to rouse viewer's anger to fight by the destroyed homeland, and this kind of impression is the primitive, simple and everlasting goal of pure war.
The documentary mode was used to record and pass the goal of the war, to identifying with viewer strongly, however, my mode didn't create a strong warfare atmosphere but at the end of mode, when the enemies fall down one by one, the future is tied with fighting so tightly together

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description:

To express my inspiration from Pachube feed and Paul's concept of " pure war", I have to mention that a war isn't only contain about human beings, that is why I choose a feed about cow house, there are three graphs which shows the temperature under man-made interference and natural behavior. 

In my point of pure war is all about desire,and it's all base on nature - land, so my environment had dead animal's body, they dead innocently  because our desire. From pachube, " datacenter" graph show when time gets longer, the instability is more distinctly, so I change the texture of piano in order to entertain and make the entity more interesting than default one.
All in all, the connection between my installation and pure war is productively and the damnify is beyond number.

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inspire idea:

"“A MUTATED FORM OF WAR THAT EXISTS IN A PURE STATE OF PERMANENT PREPARATION FOR AND ANTICIPATION OF ACTUAL WARFARE.”

To go through Paul Virilio's concept of Pure War and have a inspired model, the concept above is the definition of Pure War, different people got different inspire idea, there is an anticipation and eternal actual warfare, and in this case I have to consider about the observational and protective of the model, this model is a two-wall observation desk with tubes in the upper for observation and protection, and there is one v shape table to  express the final goal of a pure war.

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WEEK1-INDEPENDENT STUDY-PACHUBE.COM FEED

https://pachube.com/feeds/34297

description: this is a feed I found from pachube.com which is about cow house temperature, this location is in Austin and also a indoor exposure. This feed provide the information about temperature in different location and hour, it is a inspire feed that from the graph, the information is useful and practical, in my point, a good feed should involve the natural factor not keep in the  constant temperature.