A8CatharineStarbird
Last modified by Hal Eden on 2010/08/20 11:06
A8CatharineStarbird
To Do
To Do
- please work as individuals for this assignment
- explore SketchUp = 3D for everyone; a starting point is provided by:
- explore 3D Warehouse = an online repository of 3D models; a starting point is provided by:
Sketchup
Post one question about Sketchup including a rationale why you find your questions interesting and important!3D Warehouse
Post one question about the 3D Warehouse including a rationale why you find your questions interesting and important!Group response
- 1. Members of the Group
- Kate Starbird
- 2. SketchUp
- SketchUp and Google Lively Google has another interesting product, in beta right now, Google Lively. The product is a 3D social network where users can customize avatars and living spaces. I am wondering if the Google Lively platform will support models created in SketchUp? This would allow users to create their own home furnishings and possibly even their own avatars using the same platform that Google used to populate Google Earth and their warehouse. SketchUp might have to be updated to enable better character creation, but it seems like a likely direction. I have another, semi-technical question about Sketchup. I see than the files have their own file type: '.skp'. Does Google provide documentation that will allow 3rd parties to use .skp models in their applications?
- 3. 3D Warehouse
- Motivations Our project group is investigating the motivations for contributing end-user content to systems like the 3D Warehouse (along with others). What, if any, are the extrinsic rewards of contributing to this system? Searching through cathedrals in France, I found that several of these had been created by the same user, kevin51340. He has over 100 highly detailed models in the system. Is there an incentive model where interested parties (local tourist interests, businesses looking for advertisement) pay individuals/companies to build models for them (as Prof Mark Dubin was doing in SecondLife)? Along another vein, can models be downloaded, edited/tinkered with, and then resubmitted to the system in an improved state? How is credit assigned in these cases? Are there any copyright protections for submissions within the system?
