Further Developing the Matariki AR/VR Designs

 

We have spent a second day looking at ways to apply Tinkercad as a design tool to a creation that we might consider for showing or illustrating Matariki, the celebration of Maori New Year.

We wanted to explore this event and how we might use our students knowledge of tools that we have used in the classroom this year.    This example shown left is a further exploring of the process.  In this example in additional to having the physical representations of the stars the student has also labelled the stars with their names and attempted to place them in the correct order and relative location.  As noted yesterday the student then AR/VR this design into different locations around the classroom and then the general school.

We have also discovered that Pic Collage has developed its own AR/VR design tools so that students can further enhance their designs by introducing local landmarks such as the examples shown left.   In this instance the student is going to refine their design to ensure that the location of the stars accurately reflects the positions of the stars in the constellations.

We have experimented with a range of locations and also experimented with the AR/VR enhancement - our students have discovered that some of the enhancements overtakes the design - for instance some of the students creations of the constellations were replaced by some of the filters.

In the example shown left this shows how the AR/VR can rework the students design.   The students constellations design, AR/VR into a desk of the classroom is shown right.   When the image was then put through a AR/VR Pic Collage (which is the image shown left) the students design had been completely reworked by the tool changing the composition from one of the student designed with the correct placement into one that does not resemble the students creation.   The student wants to refine their prompts using reference to our location and see if this allows the design that they have created to remain in the correct order.   Likewise references to the local mountain, Taranaki, are producing a version that is not seen from our location.  Finally the idea was to look at some kind of art project - and we were thinking about how this might look.   The students are going to explore the printing of these stars, which while it was not the case initially is now looking at gluing these to a painted background to create a multi-media type piece of art.