Dhruv Adhia – Hello Universe

FTW coding competition

// July 25th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Games, Thirdimension

My last semesters project along with Manpowers won first student prize for the project “Taxicity”.

Taxicity is the taxi driving mission based game which runs on the real map of Vancouver.

TaxiCity is a game created using Silverlight development kit. The game resources are generated using Open Data from the city of Vancouver. Our team is working with Microsoft Canada and David Eaves to create an engaging and interactive display of freely available/Open Data. The Open Data is used to create the map; Bing Maps acts as a sort of GPS mini-map for the player; and Silverlight is our main platform.

This project is a four month long project at the Centre of Digital Media. Our Client for this project is Microsoft Canada and our mentor for this project is David Eaves.

Game Description:

In the game players will play as a taxi driver in Vancouver, picking up passengers and delivering them to key landmark locations in the city. Real world geometry creates the game map and the route tracking services provided by Bing will be used to guide the player to his/her destination.

Opensource resources that came out with project

You can download the 2d game engine to create silverlight games at http://manpower.codeplex.com/ and other elements of the game and game itself! at http://taxicity.ca/2010/04/download-game-resources/

You can also download a little conversion tool that I wrote in C# to convert from Lat/Long coords to UTM and vice versa.

http://taxicity.ca/2010/03/silverlight-class-for-conversion-from-utm-to-latlong-coords-and-vice-versa/

Generative Art

// July 12th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // antarikShamM, Nature, Technology, Thirdimension

Here is the Generative art that I did for Vancouver Olymics as part of prototyping the concept that our team from GNWC had put forward.

Here is the video

Generative Art from Dhruv Adhia on Vimeo.

This was one of my part of the prototype for CODE live on the ground, Vancouver Olympics. It was for the Dharma project combining the elements to move from abstract to known as defined in our first brief concept.

I used Mandelbrots recurring equations concept, starting from simple circle which forms out of itself forming a bigger circle as a group of complex circles. I was also trying to capture the concept of stars and universe. Universes(group of circles) moving apart and stars(individual circles) bursting forming into new glowing ones.

How wonderful to see math being involved in this wonderfuly driven dynamically moving art.
Created using processing library inside Eclipse
Music courtesy : Karunesh – Call of the Tribes

And here is some inspiration to take from master himself.

Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness talk on TED