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Interactive learning animations

March 12th, 2010

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For the past 18 months we’ve worked with the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology to help them create a large number of interactive animations for their Aeronautical Engineering courses. We’ve posted stills of a few of our favourite models below so that you can appreciate the quality and  attention to detail in each animation.

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Students enjoy being able to interact directly with each model and are able to visualise the functions in a step by step and hands on approach. They can switch individual groups of lights on and off in aircraft, watch an animated character demonstrate airtraffic signals or see how heat affects different metals by lighting their own virtual bunsen burner.

More pictures after the jump.

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Accessible 3D content to enrich learning tools

August 27th, 2009

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Interactive learning tools are a very effective way to present complex ideas, in a directed but interactive manner. The user can instantly repeat or play a particular segment, and interact with the training at any time or place of their choice. Interactive Learning tools can be seen as another tool to enrich knowledge taught in more traditional methods, or even as a complete learning methodology.

Note: If above 3D module does not load please download Acrobat here, or download the file, by right clicking here and choose save to disk, then open it in Acrobat. On the Mac platform the latest Firefox version can have issues, so use Safari instead.

Which brings me to a discovery I have made recently, a workflow which enables 3D models to be presented in an alluring, accessible and interactive way. The PDF platform has a massive following, due to becoming the default way to distribute e-books and a multitude of documents. Modern PDF files allow hyper-linking, interactive buttons, video, embedded flash content, vector and raster graphics, 3D content, advanced security, interactive field data, and much more.

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