Advanced Digital Media Elective – Spring 2016
This course was an introduction to 3D modeling and digital fabrication. One of the course’s projects, Mini Cities, fuses computational engineering with 3D printing to challenge visualization techniques utilized in hack-a-thons. Sponsored by the Information Assurance Center at Iowa State University, 20 unique cities were designed, modeled, and fabricated by architecture students at Iowa State University and then outfitted with circuitry and lights that diagrammatically visualize infrastructure performance. The Information Assurance Center, a university research center dedicated to the practice of managing information-related risks, hosts a series of hack-a-thons that trains students to defend infrastructure grids against attack. These cities will replace dated 2D graphics previously used during sponsored hack-a-thons, allowing participants to have a greater spatial awareness of the grids they are defending.
