Computer Applications

I taught Introduction to Computer Applications as part of a team or as sole instructor from 1992 through 1995. In this course students were intorduced to a range of computer applications for design, visualization and technical products. I taught students to draft using computer assisted drafting programs on the Macintosh and the Windows platforms. The first image shown here is of a wood finial drafted with Mini Cad by Nick Liogrio(1995).

I lin ked the computer applications course to the Sohpomore Design Studio to integrate the learning. For the last project of the semester in 1994, the student's designs for a Kirkland, Washington park were drafted and colored on the computer. Then images were exported to a presentation program. The plan views, below, are portions of the seven acre park which was designed and drafted by Nathan Steiner and Kevin Kirche(1994).

My computer applications course also introduced simple three dimensional modeling. It was taught as an aid to support manually rendered perspective images. The image below illustrates a wire frame perspective. It could be printed at a large size and used as a perspective framework.


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In addition to computer assisted drafting I taught students how to scan (digitize) photographs or manually drawn images. Then they learned how to manipulate the images to create compositions and, eventually, design simulations. From the 1994 class, the first composition, below, was created by Jay Bemis and the second composition was the work of Jennifer Dischinger using an image manipulation program, Photoshop.


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