In
Spring 2004, we invited two Architecture professors
(Thomas Fowler & Tom DiSanto)
and their students to join our project. The architecture
students, working in four different groups (each group
choosing a primary design theme to define their work),
proposed a number of architectural models for the CompuObscura.
We worked with the students to select the best elements
of each design, which were then incorporated into the
final design and the physical model of the CompuObscura.
We asked the students to work
within a number of financial and construction constraints.
The final design costs roughly $18,000 in material,
and can be put up or taken down in an afternoon with
small group of non-technical assistants.
In the coming terms we hope to
broaden the reach of our project to include colleagues
and students from the Computer Science Department at
Cal Poly
and plan on working with a number of colleagues and
students at other universities in the USA and abroad.
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