Project 5: Creating a 3 Dimensional Timeline
Project Requirements
Your final project will be to construct a three dimensional "virtual timeline." Each class member choose a period of time based on important events in computer history. These topics are listed in Timeline Topics.
We will be exploring different techniques in creating an illusion of depth on the computer.
The requirements of this project are:
- Image size: Width must be 650-700 pixels wide and not to exceed 600 pixels high.
- The image must show the development of your designated topic in a new, innovative and creative way.
- Supporting information about the life and times of that era must also be represented.
- The timeline
"room or area" must be drawn be the student, but objects inside
the space may be from other sources such as scanned from a book or saved
from the Web. The bibliographic source for the image, however, must
be noted in full, and handed in with this project.
Pleases don't include secondary sources. For example, if a picture is in a book on computer history, it may originally have come from a museum such as the Smithsonian.
Students without correct and appropriate references for their images will not receive a grade for this project.
These projects will be graded on:
- Value of specific computer information
- Interesting supporting information
- Creativity and originality
- The illusion of depth and space
- Innovative approaches to displaying related visual information for that time period.
- Photoshop skills
- Obtaining copyright permission
- Including related web resources
- Meeting size requirements