Second Life

My avatar on second life sitting right at the top of the stairs, in the dramatic lighting environment I created.

Additive Colour - Mixing visible light (primary colours Red, Green, Blue) to create other colours, and together create white. The results influence the way we detect colour with our eyes.

Full definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color


Subtractive Colour - The opposite to additive colour. It involves mixing paints, dyes etc to create natural colours. Waves of light are absorbed by the surface of an object, and the wave of the colour of the object is reflected back.

 Full definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color


RGB of (a shade of) Blue
R: 19     G:155     B:236
Green
R:52     G:194     B:31
Crimson
R:226    G:29      B:80


Previous Years' Blogs:

• www.dvd-archdrc102.blogspot.co.nz
• www.zphi002arch.blogspot.com
• www.drawingsauce.blogspot.co.nz

Useful Websites for Architecture in the Virtual World/Second Life tutorial

• www.virtualsuburbia.com - A blog reviewing architecture on second life
• www.wiki.secondlife.com - lots of different articles about second life, with links to the official second life knowledge base.
• http://www.sutor.com/c/buildsl/  - tutorials to help build in second life, with step by step tutorials - a DIY guide to construction and design.

Team:

• Hyewon: blog.naver.com/hwlee918
• Triana: www.archtriana.blogspot.com

Lecture One

• Technology is everywhere, and architecture can be considered as the first. We use countless pieces of technology in everyday life from our phones to our heaters.
• ArchiCad, Revit, Google SketchUp and AutoCad are some of the computer packages an architect might use.

•  Rock Paper Scissors - The two guys are in different countries, one in Hong Kong and the other in America. In this video, they move from room to room as they play Rock Paper Scissors with each other. I would say roughly 12 paces are portrayed, including out in the street.
• In the Digital Nation, Rosedale thinks he can slove alienation and isolation caused by technology with more technology. He created Second Life for people to come together in the virtual world and creating an atmosphere were you would act better than you would, say, chatting online or texting.
• The IBM Complex was designed in the 1980's as a hub for all its employees, because it was supposed to be where they would come to work everyday. 
• Raydiosity is what we see in the world around us through how our eyes perceive light. Light bounces off surfaces and creates diffused lighting on its surrounding objects.
• Graphic interference allows users to interact with images rather than text.