STA Blog

LAITS Student Technology Assistants collaborate with the College of Liberal Arts faculty and administration by re-imagining their instructional and promotional projects with a creative use of video, audio, web and graphic design. STAs learn technical skills on the job with LAITS development studio staff. They build presentations, produce audio/visual works, scan text documents & perform image correction. STAs are instrumental in helping COLA faculty realize their vision for instructional technology projects used to enhance the teaching and learning experience.

12/14/16

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Here is one of the finished silhouette designs I made for the PSY 304 class. It was a lot harder to make something that looked nice than I thought it would be, but I do like how this one turned out!

11/28/16

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Here’s what I’ve been working on the past few days/week before the break! I’m reformatting powerpoints for the PSY 333D class. I have an example of the new slides in the top image and a then/now comparison in the bottom image. I have been changing backgrounds, aspect ratios, correcting image and font sizes, and adding a splash of purple here and there. There’s 19 total, I’m on my 4th one. Got a long way to go……

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eForensics Rescaling Bones

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As the semester draws begins to wrap up and final project deadlines stack up on the horizon, here at LAITS I’ve been working on re-scaling bones for the eForensics project. The plan for the way bones are presented to site users changed at some point, and now many of the low-poly bones models need to be resized so that they are all the appropriately sized relative to one another. To do this, we’re using the original high-poly models (correctly sized relative to one another but too big) scaled by a factor of 0.1025. Then we take the final, low-poly model and match the size to the re-scaled high-poly model.

 

To show this in action, here’s a .gif of the re-scaling process:

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