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Dissent By Design: Graphic Communication And The Continuity Of Resistance As A Civic Practice In The United States, Ryan "Rain" Milligan

Theses

Graphic communication has played a role in shaping civic life in the United States throughout much of its history, influencing how individuals recognize injustice, understand systems of power, and participate in collective action. Typically associated with moments of protest or political upheaval, printed materials such as pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and posters have also functioned as everyday tools that structure public engagement. This project examines these materials through the framework of agitation, education, and organization, considering how graphic communication operates across different historical contexts to provoke recognition, make complex ideas accessible, and coordinate collective effort. Drawing from a range of historical …

2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

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Artificial Games, Jake Johnson

Theses

This thesis project is an attempt to create an integration of augmented reality (AR) technology and tabletop board games, with a focus on tackling the challenge of maintaining engagement and capturing the attention of modern audiences who are often drawn to more interactive forms of entertainment like movies and video games. Specifically, the project explores the concept of augmenting older tabletop games with a combination of futuristic digital graphics and overlays with original physical game elements. The project sees and recognizes the problem, which is that the disparity between the level of engagement offered by traditional tabletop games and the …

2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

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2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

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Engaging Students With Disabilities In Universally Designed Science Education, Latifa Sebti, Michelle L. Damiani

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

Increased student diversity in classrooms and the need for equitable STEM opportunities for all, creates an impetus for educators to establish inclusive and equitable environments and use teaching practices that facilitate meaningful learning for all students in science education. This article offers a three-part framework for combining inclusive philosophy, the science and engineering practices, and Universal Design for Learning. The article is intended to help teachers and teacher educators universally design science education to level the science learning field through access and equity for all students, including students with disabilities. We advocate for the use of four practices: creating an …

2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

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2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

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2019-2020 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

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2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

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Space Journey: Encouraging Astronomy Education And Space Exploration Through An Interactive Experiential Design Installation Of An Astronaut Training Program, Maria Gabriela Sanchez Angulo

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Space journey is an interactive experiential design installation that explores the field of Astronomy and astronaut training programs, to encourage younger generations to follow scientific and astronomy education. This project explored, the boundaries of the interactive user experience along with projection design to learn, discover and experience using a gesture-based interface creating an immersive experience.

Astronomy as a scientific field, has always had a significant impact on the worldview, it explores the wonders of the universe and its countless celestial objects, through its multiples researches, it has been used to solve unknown questions about the evolution and it has been …

Address, Xiao Li

Theses

Not only does this 21-minute long narrative short film serve as my graduate thesis project, but it is also my personal tribute to one of my favorite movie genres: film noir.

This film tells a story of a female protagonist, Felicia. She enjoys a poor yet happy life with her fiancé, Ryan, a young striving filmmaker who needs funding to continue with graduate school. After selling his car in order to cover school expenses, Ryan moves into Felicia’s house. One day, Felicia accidentally opens an envelope that was addressed to her ex-husband, Ed. The letter reveals that Ed is entitled …

Mist, Huan Abby Liao

Theses

Mist is an abstract, animated graduate thesis film with a duration of five minutes. It is an extremely personal film, which is inspired by my childhood memories and Chinese culture. It is a reflection of my own life, which just like the fluid ink in the film, reacts with the environment naturally and leaves distinct marks on the paper of my life.

This is a live action and 2D animation mixed film that was produced with After Effects and Premiere software. The primary plan was to produce this film in 3D. However, in order to achieve a more dynamic look, …

Full Measures, Xuejing Xu

Theses

“Full Measures” is a 3D Animated Short Film about a pianist’s struggle writing the music he desires before his deadline. With musical creatures taunting him, will he defeat his nightmares in time?

“Full Measures” has two meanings, it’s literally definition is “to perform a task as well as possible.” The second definition is a play on words meaning “Passages with heavily written music.” It’s a phrase I found through speaking with musician at the Eastman School of Music.

In life we all aspire to achieve what we want to create. Often the greatest obstacles are constructs in our minds. We …

Discovering Galapagos: A Children’S Website, Jing Yan

Theses

Information technology is changing people's lives. It changes the way people communicate with others, how people search for information, and how people study and learn new knowledge. According to several studies and reports, more and more parents are using computers and mobile devices to teach their children. However, with the exception of games, there are only a few fun educational websites are created for children.

As a designer and young mother who wants to find good educational resources for children, I think this would be a good opportunity for me to design a website for our tiny thinkers. Because children …

Re÷Belief, Raymond Mccarthy Bergeron

Theses

re÷belief, is a 3D Printed, hand crafted, zoetropic short-film that asks if recalling memories can break a cycle. re÷belief is a graduate student produced animated thesis, completed for the MFA in the School of Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology. Much of this film is a personal story that recalls nine very specific instances of my life. These are memories that have repeatedly haunted me throughout my youth and adulthood. The memories regularly reflected times of bliss mixed with sullen, miserable moments.

Ultimately, the story thread focuses on cycles, and choosing 3D printed zoetropes as the metaphor and …

Case Study Two: Jewish Time Jump: New York, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

Gottlieb presents an early case study of his mobile augmented reality game Jewish Time Jump: New York design on the ARIS platform for the iPhone and iPad (iOS). The game is set on-location in Washington Square Park in New York city. Players in 5th-7th grade take on the role of time-traveling reporters, landing on site on the eve of the Uprising of 20,000, the largest women-led strike in U.S. History. Based on their GPS location they receive media from over 100 years in the past, interactive with digital characters as they work to gather a story for the fictional Jewish …

This Is Bouyon: An Exploration Of Dominica’S Own Genre Of Music, Garford Alexander

Theses

Bouyon music is a mixture of rhythms, melodies, and musical styles from

genres, such as Soca, Zouk, and traditional genres native to Dominica, a

small island nation located in the Caribbean Sea. The music is one of the

most popular musical genres in Dominica, and one of the Caribbean's

best-kept secrets. As Dominica is one of the lesser-known islands, this

genre of music is unknown to much of the world outside of the West Indies.

My project aims to document the history, and create awareness for Bouyon

music. Using firsthand interviews with the creators of the genre, footage of

performances, …

Crush, Tirumalaimuttu Shanmugam

Theses

"Crush" is a 3D Animated Short Film about a kid who gets lost in

his own world of imagination after any typical crush. JoJo, plays the

protagonist in this film. He desires the attention of his classmate PoPo, to propose his interest towards her. After receiving a positive response from her, he gets lost in a dream world. When his heroic exploits in this dream state go awry, Popo loses interest in him. Before Jojo can gain insight from this experience he receives a wink from MoMo. Undoubtedly her attention will send him into another daydream.

Evaluation Of The Press Calibration Methods By Simulation, Yi Wang

Theses

Press calibration is an approach to adjust the behavior of ink, paper, and press with the use of a CTP platemaking system to achieve a specified reference printing condition. Reference printing condition defines a common color space for color image data exchange between various output devices. The advantage of a reference printing condition is to improve color image quality and reduce cost and time. Corner points of the color gamut, TVI curves, and grey reproduction are the three significant elements in a reference printing condition, which make them essential in press calibration. There are usually two press runs in press …

Hive Five, Tom Kotcher

Theses

For my thesis, I started out with the ambition of creating a game using Augmented Reality, but in the end created a game in Flash called Hive Five. I used multiple techniques and technologies in order to help accomplish this. By combining two-dimensional and three-dimensional assets, the player gets the best of both worlds. This also gives it the flexibility to be converted later into a mobile game since it is not hard on processing power. This game gave me a solid start with graphics and a strong programming skeleton that I can continue on with in the future. Through …

Investing In Renovation And Management Of Kosovo’S Cadastral Database / [Presentation Given November 14, 2012], Mentor Xhemajli

Theses

This capstone project addresses the issue of the acceleration of cadastre renovation in Kosovo. The cadastre of a country is its register of property titles and is usually managed by government agencies1. The Cadastre in Kosovo is managed by the Kosovo Cadastral Agency (KCA), which is the highest authority for cadastre in the Republic of Kosovo. Cadastre renovation in Kosovo has started since 2003, with the pilot project in cadastral zone (CZ) Dobrashec in Gllogovc municipality. In that time, this pilot project was declared successful. After this pilot there has been another pilot project in three CZ. These CZ are …

How To Use Computer Graphics Popularize Tai Chi, Tao Zou

Theses

TAIMIC is a visual interactive exploration application involving motion capture and 3D animation. It introduces Tai Chi to young generations and could be accessed through the Internet from anywhere in the world. Tai Chi, a division of Chinese Kong Fu, has been popular in China for hundreds of years. Today Tai Chi has been spreading worldwide. Thousands of people in the world practice Tai Chi every day. However, most of the participants are senior people. As a result, I am creating a way to popularize Tai Chi among young people. My goal for this project is to use computer graphics …

Ntid Focus Spring/Summer 2011, Ntid Marketing And Communications

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

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2011-2012 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

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Reporter - September 17th 2010, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

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Visual Inspiration From Modern Art- My Reflections On Symbolism, Surrealism, And Impressionism, Ning Su

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My thesis project is a digital graphics book demonstrating my reflections on three schools of Modern Art: Symbolism, Surrealism, and Impressionism. I was inspired by the artists' elegant masterpieces, so I created my own characters and scenes inspired by the three schools, and integrated them into my art world to express my aesthetic taste. It will take the viewers on a trip of the visual appreciation of Modern Art through my eyes. All the images in the book are implemented in 3D computer-generated environment and with 2D stylized hand drawings. The 3D images are the representation of my comprehension of …

Reporter - September 3rd 2010, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

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2010-2011 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

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Eganwo: The Graphic Novel’S Escape To Digital Media, Brian P. Kowalczyk

Theses

Comics are beginning to rise in popularity today, but there is still a significant portion of society that rejects comics as an art form. The main objective of this project was to develop a product for the comic book industry with which they could tap into and benefit from a broader online audience. This project attempts to further what recent success the comic book has had in other forms of media other than that of print, such as movies, videogames, and motion graphics. Reaching out to new demographics on the World Wide Web and combining the comic book experience with …