Welcome! Above is our room. It may look a little flat here, but click on it to see it in 3D panorama. Listed below are answers to some of the questions you may have about our project.

 

"What did you do?"

We measured the important dimensions of our room using the metric system. We used this data to recreate our room as accurately as possible using a program called Bryce 2.1. We turned the rendered picture into a Quicktime Virtual Reality Panorama.

 

"How the heck did you do that?"

We paired ourselves into groups and chose different parts of the room to measure. One student of each team did the measuring, one student did the recording. Some features required more detailed drawings. We used paper and pencil, calculators, and metric rulers to record and manipulate the information. This information was entered into Bryce 2.1 for Mac by one student, Robin. The results you can see for yourself above.

 

"What did you learn?"

We learned that math can be more than just a bunch of numbers on a page. The class learned that numbers can describe the size and position of objects in our room. Numbers tell us how tall, how wide, and how far apart objects are. We were even able to describe the colors and textures of the objects using numbers.

In addition our project lead us to investigate the metric system and the math of Rene Descartes and George Boole.

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The panorama view gives visitors a three-dimensional feel for the room. It makes it seem as if you are really there. But it doesn't show all the details of our model. We have rendered a series of still pictures to show off the fine details.

 

Begin tour of still pictures here.