Transformations

What happened in the workshop?
After the workshop people had a deeper understanding of what actually happens when applying transformations on 3D objects.

Who was the target audience of the workshop?

  • Beginners working with 3D systems or using VVVV for some time but still run frequently in the situation where 3D objects transformation do not behave as you would expect them to.
  • People who want to know, why 3D Systems actually work with 4D coordinates (homogenous coordinates).
  • People who want to know what kind of transformations happen in a rendering pipeline.

What did attendees of the workshop learn?
Workshop gave them

  • a better intuition how to use transforms so that they will behave as you would expect them to
  •  a basic idea of the transforms happening in the rendering pipeline (ie. model, world, view and projection space – what happens where?)
  • some theoretic foundations of what actually goes on inside the transform nodes (vector math, homogenous coordinates, matrices and maybe even quaternions)

 

Matthias Husinsky

motzi

Creative Coder, Educator, Researcher

Matthias Husinsky is a lecturer and researcher in the field of media engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in St.Pölten, Austria.

He has been using vvvv as a key tool for various interactive applications in different contexts, both for research and artistic and commercial projects.

 

Martin Zrcek

Creative Coder, Designer, Developer, Educator, Founder, Media Designer, Researcher, Software Developer, Technologist

2realistic.com

Martin Zrcek was a classically trained programmer with knowledge from Czech Technical University, when one fine day id144 introduced him to vvvv and he fell in love with visual languages immediately. In the next nine years he worked as a freelancer for many European companies like Uberact in London and focus4 in Munich, where he made some nice projects.

His personal deviation is pedantry, he likes linear algebra and keeps learning to draw, play the guitar and dance salsa. You could remember some contributions like CiantParticles, ParticlesUnplugged, few shaders, or his toolkit. All have over 10k downloads in sum. In October last year he came back to Prague, created a company focusing on virtual reality in Unreal Engine and paused his vvvv work. He has a good team now and would like to go back again to interactivity.