Invitation to the next Donattello Workshop. Next Thursday, May 22 at 11:00 at 6.48 of Facultat de Física, UB, C. de Martí i Franquès, 1
Interactive Presentations and Virtual Labs with Donattello.
Aula 648
One of the most pressing challenges of science is the diffusion of
our research to society in the Information Era, that has grown used to
virtual experiences and interactive content. Scientific community still
rely on the static slide-show format for both teaching or diffusion,
wasting the powerful capabilities of modern computers. The creation of
interactive material is usually perceived as too time consuming or hard
in programming skills.
In this one-session workshop I would like to present "Donattello
Show": A small software package that run on the free-to-use game engine
Unity3D. Donattello puts all the ease and power of the game engine to
the service of any scientist. You will realise how, with enough
training, can be even more confortable to work with than power-points or
latex-based packages.
I encourage to assist to this workshop with your laptop (with either
Windows or Mac OS, not Linux yet) to start working with Donattello and
prepare your own material.
With Unity3D and this package you will be able to:
- Create animated slide sets of text, image, 3D objects and interactive elements, organized as a classical slide show.
- Plot customizable graphics based on functions or selected columns from your data.
- Implement interactive real time models.
- Virtualize and reproduce real experiments from recorded data.
Software required:
- Unity3D game engine (4.0 or above):
http://unity3d.com/unity/download
- Donattello pre-alpha unity package:
http://tanokagames.blogspot.com/p/donattello.html