The dark ages

The history of computer games stretches further back than what you might think, if you’re talking about games in general then that can go all the way back to the Egyptian times with the first recorded board game “Senet” this game has been dated between 1550-1069 BC! Now that’s really old. But we aren’t going to talk about old men and their sticks and stones! We are here to talk about COMPUTERS!

Technically the first computer was made by a man named Charles Babbage! This guy was a mathematician, inventor and a philosopher. He designed the Difference engine in 1822! The first programmable computer. The difference engine was able to calculate polynomials with a numerical method called the difference method. The machine was created to calculate mathematical problems, I’m not great with maths so I’m just going to quote this from wiki!

“In mathematics, a polynomial is anexpression consisting of variables and constant coefficients that involves only the operations of addition, subtraction,multiplication, and positive integerexponents. An example of a polynomial of a single variable, x, is x2 − 4x + 7, which is a quadratic.”
So long story short, it’s an accurate and powerful calculator for its time.

Week 2-Wednesday 4/9/13

Week 2 of my course has made me more happy and confident that this course it the right one for me, as I have started to get to grips with drawing things I don’t normally want to draw, like the archway. Before I started the course I was told that drawing everything and anything is a god idea and that drawing from life and not pictures is very different but I failed to believe that. Now that I’ve been drawing for around 50 hrs. I see what my friends and tutors were trying to say. In 3D I was set a project of making a Darlik from Doctor Who, I wasn’t too excited about the project but I was very confident in the fact that I could easily make is within 2hrs. When it finally came to making it I was proven wrong as I was struggling with the mesh and poly counts! As this week presented me with challenges I that I was happy to do I found out that it was allot harder than I thought it would be. Getting into the swing of life drawing again has been great but at times frustrating, as I used to attend a private class every week which gave me allot of confidence in drawing!

Week 3-Wednesday 11/9/13

This week was hand in day for my Darlik! I’m not going to lie, I was looking forward to it because I thought I was stronger than everyone else when it came to 3Ds max. So I was expecting for everyone’s Darlik to be broken and badly made. Shortly I was proven wrong, it looked like everyone was fine with modelling. In visual studies we were set “2 Point perspective drawing” as our week project. I wanted to rip my hair out for this one as we started to draw the inside of the queens building… I just couldn’t get my head around that building as there was angles flying everywhere! I was actually really looking forward to it as I am interested in architecture and am normally pretty good the perspective. We didn’t get set a project this week but we looked into texturing and how to properly texture a complicated object using UV unwrap. It seemed complicated at first but I soon got to grips with it and enjoys bringing an object some realism.