Computer Simulation in Experiential Education. PUC-SP/IMA

The Games Workshop is aimed at young people between 17 to 21 years, that requires the high school education or, at least, the last year of high school. It is a workshop for the formation of a repertoire of conceptual and technical creative trends in Games Development, to enchant the teaching of mathematics, physics, literature, among others.

The Games Workshop is offered in laboratory where this experiment develops creation, modeling and animation using free software. The workshop offers three courses: Design and Development of 3D characters, Characterization of Characters (The Literature in the development of a Game. The Culture that the Characters will live on) and the discipline of computer language for character animation;

There are two objectives of this workshop: the first is to show how math and physics are important in building these worlds. The Literature constructs through theory of imagenary, the life of the character. The second is to introduce technical training of skilled labor to the domestic and international industry games;

Another point is the motivation of participants to get closer to the reading, history, geography, and other disciplines that make up the encyclopedic knowledge of these professionals.

The vision for this multi-user virtual environment is to provide an environment that is robust enough in terms of security, scalability, reliability, and functionality that organizations can rely on it as a place to conduct real education and business. Organizations should be able to use Wonderland to create a virtual presence to better communicate with students, professionals, customers, partners, and employees. Individuals should be able to do their real work within a virtual world, eliminating the need for a separate collaboration tool when they wish to work together with others. Individuals should also be able to tailor portions of the world to adapt to their work needs and to express their personal style. The types of collaborations that can happen within the space include audio communication, live desktop applications of all kinds, and eventually collaborative creation of world content (both graphical and procedural).

One important goal of the project is for the environment to be completely extensible. Developers and graphic artists can extend the functionality to create entire new worlds, new features in existing worlds, or new behaviors for objects and avatars. The art path for Wonderland is also open. The eventual goal is to support content creation within the world, but in the shorter term, the goal is to support importing art from open source 3D content creation tools as well as professional 3D modeling and animation applications.

THE MATHEMATICS BUILDING WORLDS

A project that aims to seek a different methodology in a time that technology of games is so present and participant in the learning process. This project shows how to develop games with the mathematical and physical tools in computer codes, which bring to life characters from science fiction. Not only brings to light the stories in 3D as well as prepares for the modeling and animation of characters and wonderful scenery. And do not stop there, because to the extent that the script of this game sees possibilities in visual effects and special, once again the math is there. From simple concepts of Euclidean geometry, analytic, spacial, until to applications of quaternions and wavelets. There are many contributions to this science, the mathematics, that in its purest form, delivers the structure, the beauty in "n" dimensions.