project darth paul introduction: star wars the movie series

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Introduction:Star Wars the Movie Series



Two Elements

•The Light Saber

•The Force



The Light Saber

We

We will use Luke’s Saber as a guide



The Light Saber

We

Here is a schematic of Luke Skywalker’s light saber



The Force

We

The Force is inside of you,

everyone, and all elements of nature.

if you focus, you can use The Force

to make inanimate objects move with

the simple wave of a hand.


Users:Gamers and Beyond

Without a doubt, fanatic gamers and Star Wars fans

will jump at the opportunity to use both the technologically advanced

light sabers as well as The Force.

But they are not alone.


Users:Gamers and Beyond

The input device will have an approximate six degrees of freedom.

Such freedom will make the device applicable to many other fields

And many other people who would like added freedom for

their input devices.

Additionally, with the advent of The Force,

An input device that does not require touch,

There are even greater unforeseen applications.


Group Members and Responsibilities

Brandon Braunstein Douglas Corey Campbell

Candice Hebden Paul Simbi

Ge Wang



Brandon Braunstein

•Study gyromouse controls•Come up with mapping•Game engine•Entities•Interactions•Overall control •Develop openGL environments

•Analyze movements and trails

•Training_ground•Corridor•Docking_bay





Ge Wang



Douglas Corey Campbell•Study Accelerometers Controls•Come up with mapping•Physics

•Collision detection•Doppler•Gravity

•Develop openGL environments•Training ground•Corridor•Docking bay•Analyze and synthesize sound





Ge Wang



Candice Hebden

•Study Accelerometers Controls•Come up with mapping•Game engine

•Entities•Interactions•Overall control

•Develop openGL entities•Hands (wire frame)•Darth (eyes and nose)•Target (jar jar)•Cake





Ge Wang



Paul Simbi

•Study Gyromouse Controls•Come up with mapping•Physics

•Collision detection•Doppler•Gravity

•Develop openGL entities•Orbs•Turrets•Boxes

•Force feedback





Ge Wang



Ge Wang

The Lord Ge Wang, he’s a guru of all things media related.He’s got his hands in everything

OpenGL 3D Sound

Serial ConnectionBasic Stamp


System Block Diagram



Hardware

Interface

Software

Lightsaber Force Table





Hardware

•Basic Stamp

•Constellation of Accelerometers

•Display wall

•Table w/two light sensors



Hardware

To create The Force,

We will have a table with two light sensors.

The light sensors will determine if a hand is reaching out

(A sign of using The Force)

And which direction the hand is moving.



Interface

The two input devices

(light saber and The Force)

Have a serial interface with the computers

that run the Display Wall

(in Room 318 of Princeton University

Computer Science building)

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Software

OPENGL

•Graphical Lightsaber

•Entities

•Environment



Software

8 Channel 3D Sound

•Render Lightsaber sound

•Music & Speech Sound Bytes

•Environment Sounds


Testing/Evaluation Design

Fitts Law

•Tapping Test

•Cutting (Tunneling)


Completion Timeline

Check Point 1: Mid-December

•Rendering of lightsaber, environment, and entities

•Design and build of input interface

•Accelerometer for increased degrees of freedom

•Table to simulate "the force"


Completion Timeline

Check Point 2: Early January

•Synthesis of sound

•3D audio to correspond to both the devices as well as the actions occurring in the game

•Software drivers for the interface


Completion Timeline

Check Point 3: Deans Date

•Designing and executing interface tasks

•Creating game engine

•Testing the tasks for Fitts' Law to see if the b factor can be decreased

project darth paul introduction: star wars the movie series

Documents

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