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multimedia zaal S353

The multimedia zaal S353 is primarily meant for students doing practical work for multimedia-related courses or projects, and for courses or presentations related to multimedia. Some students refer to this new facility already as the multimedia temple.

beamer & sound

There is a 4500 lumen beamer and a 500W Logitech Z 5500 Digital (5-1) surround sound system, with Soundblaster Audigy 2. For using these facilities, contact the helpdesk.

primary users/courses

multimedia authoring -- sept/oct
intelligent multimedia technology -- nov/dec
multimedia casus -- nov/dec/jan
visual design -- februari-april (tbd)
introduction multimedia -- april/may
computer graphics -- oct-dec (?)
project(s) multimedia / game development -- whole year

tbd = to be determined

demo(s)

computers

14 fujitsu siemens scenico P320, AMD64 3400+ MHz, 1G memory, 80 GB serial ATA disk, 6 x USB, XFX Geforce 6600 GT 128 Mb AGP, dual display, 2 LCD monitors

software

Parallel Graphics VrmlPad -- site license
Alias Maya Complete (5.0 & 6.0) -- 10 floating licenses
3D Studio Max 7 -- 15 floating licenses
Adobe Photoshop CS -- www.adobe.com/products/photoshop
Adobe Illustrator CS -- www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/
DirectX9c SDK -- www.microsoft.com/directx
WildTangent WebDriver & SDK -- www.wildtangent.com/developer
CG Toolkit -- developer.nvidia.com/page/tools.html
RenderMonkey & SDK -- www.ati.com/developer/rendermonkey
virtools -- www.virtools.com
Half Life 2 SDK -- www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk

to be installed (april 2006)

LightWave3D (5 lics, dongle) -- www.twintek.nl/lightwave.html
SoftImage/XSI (2 lics, dongle) -- www.softimage.com/products/
e-on VUE -- www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue/vue_5_infinite/
3DSom (2 lics, **) -- www.3dsom.com/
Milkshape -- www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/ms3d/download.html
Wirefusion 4.1 -- www.demicron.com

requested

flux -- www.mediamachines.com/products.html
sketchup -- sketchup.google.com/download.html
google earth -- earth.google.com

Both LightWave and SoftImage/XSI is installed on all machines, but need a USB dongle to function. 3DSom and e-on VUE are only available on a limited number of machines.

update(s)

Consult any of the following references for updates, workarounds or solutions to problems.

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/multimedia/update.html

remarks

The hardware and software requirements are stated in notitie: update onderwijs multimedia.
Send any comments or complaints about malfunctioning or lacking software to eliens@cs.vu.nl

credits

The multimedia room is finacially supported by the management team Infomatica, and has been made possible by the efforts of Henk Schut, Mikhael Zouskov and Emil Petkov.

A. Eliens

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