Thursday, 27 April 2017

Task 1 - Applications of 3D

3D in Games
Once of the first ever 3D games to be released on commercial games machines was a game called 3D Monster Maze, the game was developed by malcolm Malcolm Evans in 1981 for the Sinclair ZX81 platform. The would award the players for each step that they took without getting caught by a T-rex or a tyrannosaurus rex in the maze.



Links:
http://www.warpedfactor.com/2015/09/video-game-firsts-3d-monster-maze.html


Transition to 3D

The fifth generation is most noted for the rise games that were fully 3D. But there were games prior that had used 3D environments like Virtua Racing and Star Fox.


Virtua Racing


Star Fox


It was at this time that game designers began to move traditionally 2D and Pseudo-3D  game genres into full 3D. There are many prime examples for this but some of the popular ones are Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot on the PlayStation. They were widely known for their 3D environments and were the ones that steered everyone's especially the industry's focus from the side-scrolling and rail-style titles, they also opened doors for more complex games and game genres. Games like GoldenEye 007, Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time were completely different from the Shoot-um ups, RPGs and Figting games that came before them.

GoldenEye 007  

GoldenEye 007 was released exclusively on 1997 for the N64 console which proved to have been very successful because it combined 3D graphics with a greater realism that had never been seen before at the time.
Most of the game releases today are hype-realistic which is expected for most of the games that are released today.


The last of us 


Sometimes there are games that use 3D to enhance a more retro appearance and gameplay.


Limbo



3D in Films and TV


Films

Futureworld

The first time that 3D animation was included in a film was in a movie from 1976 called Futureworld where it showed a rotating palm and a face made of polygons.


Jurassic Park

     In Jurassic Park was the first movie to use the first major revolutionary use of Composited 3D imagery in which it was released on the year 1993 and 3D CGI was used for most of the dinosaurs in the whole movie. And since then more and more movies used Revolutionary 3D CGI in their movies.


Avatar



Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011





TV

Reboot 

3D Was rarely shown on TV back in the day until a Canadian company called Mainframe Entertainment released a CGI TV series called Reboot. Reboot aired From release which was on 1994 and then stopped in the year 2001.


3D in Education
This helps people learn in a much more in depth way.




3D in Medicine
With this it helps doctors to see the over all layout of the human body inside and out.




3D in Engineering
This allows people to see what the end product would look like.




3D in Architecture
This helps architects to see and grasp the idea of what a building could look like.




3D in Product Design



3D Printing

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