Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Orlando, Florida, March 22-25, 2012

Paper S070

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Mathematical Modeling: The Four Seasons

Paul Bouthellier


University of Pittsburgh-Titusville

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ABSTRACT

Elements of the four seasons are modeled in 3D: grass, trees, snow, lightning, leaves, clouds, fog, rain, and more. Models are created using splines, Bezier curves, polygon meshes, rotation matrices and quaternions, translations, and scaling. The mathematics are written in programs and rendered in Poser, Studio 3D Max, and Maya.

Keyword(s): modeling