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Enter the Oligocene (Virtual Reality Project) - Phase one is complete !
Brett Breakin' Rocks posted a topic in Members' News & Diversions
Hello Everyone, Now that my time under a --- COVID-19, virtual teaching, selling my house and moving to Colorado --- rock is ending ? I can share the phase one completion of my students' VR project, Enter the Oligocene. This project was a collaboration with Matthew Gibson at The Charleston Museum, Dr. Bobby (Robert) Boessenecker @Boesse and my SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) students. Graduate and Undergraduate students participated in the 'class' and spent a little under 8 weeks to complete the Phase 01 portion of the project. A herculean effort for any artists given the circumstances. On its face the goal was to create a virtual and visual outreach project. A project that takes the fauna specifically from the Charleston area at the time of the Early/Late Oligocene and brings it to life. The star of the show ? ... Bobby's as yet described Genus-Y (now described Ankylorhiza tiedemani ! )would be the hero model and focus of the main display in the encounter. A few references for those not familiar with Bobby Boessenecker or Matthew Gibson's institutions. Mace Brown Museum of Natural History - Bobby Boessenecker - Paleontologist http://geology.cofc.edu/natural-history-museum/ The Charleston Museum - Matthew Gibson - Curator of Natural History https://www.charlestonmuseum.org/ Hopefully this has been posted and shared elsewhere on the forum ! Bobby's newly published skeleton of Ankylorhiza tiedemani and colleagues (Dr. Morgan Churchill, Dr. Emily Buchholtz, Dr. Brian Beatty, and Dr. Jonathan Geisler) Convergent Evolution of Swimming Adaptations in Modern Whales Revealed by a Large Macrophagous Dolphin from the Oligocene of South Carolina https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30828-9?fbclid=IwAR0DbqXtV_IyFhBTOH6i0263t_fFbctGblBeJilnI_ThNQks9s8LvQ024LU#articleInformation I originally imagined the backdrop for the project as an undersea 'lab' environment attached to a equally impressive museum or display structure. The player can go from the interior of the structure to the flooded exterior of the structure effortlessly. The team focused on various hero elements, one being an Otodus angustidens (my personal favorite) Genus-Y and other billfish, rays and fish common for the time period. Our inspirations were varied but the students did settle upon something more akin to Art Deco for the interior. Here are a few of the initial models/inspirations. A few of the models as Works-In-Progress To Be Continued:- 15 replies
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From the album: Summerville, SC Fossil Hunts
Billfish Hypural bone ... Aglyptorhynchus sp. One is in Ashley formation matrix© Matthew Brett Rutland
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