California Academy of Sciences
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The California Academy of Sciences, celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2003, is planning for a major new initiative: a comprehensive rebuilding project unprecedented among the world's largest natural history museums. Once completed, the new Academy promises to be a symbol of excellence architecturally, educationally, and scientifically. Click here for more information.

This project included many interesting facets; design, visualization, physical model creation and more. Many issues were addressed via CG simulation, line of sight, massing, refractive distortion etc.

I had the pleasure of addressing these matters and seeing the stretchability of a topologically sound dataset.

California Coast Tank

DESIGN	VISUALIZATION	RAPID PROTOTYPING	PHOTONIC SIMULATION	MANUFACTURING
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MANUFACTURING

To aid in the manufacturing process, I created two flash pieces (which were used onsite on a PDA/Laptop). These are crossections every foot along 2 axes. The final versions included the foot number facilitating orientation. The cubes are 1' square for scaling purposes. These along with the physical model complemented the schematics, dispelling any questions as to the exact construction requirements. *you must allow active X in order to play the 2 flash anims.