COSC 3P98 Fall 2001 - Final Project
In a time previous to our present and in an world in another dimension the following events transpired:
Office of the United Countries of Canada
EYES ONLY - Classified document
Minutes of a report to the delegates of the Office of Global Intelligence Presenting Officer, Commander Trevor Wm. A. Hickey
Transcription as follows:
It has been slightly less than seven months since the fall of the greater German forces and the Second Great Global Battle was ended. As you all know the deployment of atomic arms in conjunction with our allies of the United Countries brought about the over due settling of the global strife.
The battle has been costly so much was lost and much ground was destroyed.
In regards to this meeting, and one of my own greatest losses was Intelligence Agent GV400983. She fell along side Agents GV429043 and GV432971 sometime after they were incepted and captured. The technologies documents that were very much needed to over turn the famine in all of our promising 3rd world countries were never recovered.
Seventeen days ago I was made aware of an incredible new technology that had just been developed by our Bio-medical Technology Research Group. I immediately gave orders for the operation to begin on Agent GV400983. The results don't nearly show what we would have hoped for but are an excellent demonstration of this classified alpha technology.
A special team was assembled only days before the deployment of our armaments that eliminated every Nazi installation and other fortification throughout the European regions. This team of 8 soldiers was equipped full bio-hazard combat gear and was dropped at the enemy Naval Base were our Agents were near during their last reports. It was a distant hope but if they were still alive or if the technology documents had not been destroyed we had to go after them.
Less than 9 hours after the special team's drop Agent GV400983 body was located. It was later determined that in an escape the Agent's body reached it's location in a hilled region of the local barren sandy plains. After escaping the Naval Base's hold she swam 1800 meters across the sea and landed at this location. Her remains were badly scavenged, almost certainly by the local wildlife. Her brain made up the majority of the tissue that still remained on her body. We were fortunate, as her brain could prove to be the most valuable part. The forensic autopsy didn't reveal how she died but it is clear she had not ingested her suicide Cyanide Capsules. There is some external evidence that suggests she may have fell from sniper or other rifle fire. She had been heavily drugged during her capture... Hallucinogens probably -- probably some sort "truth serum" that their Bio-chemical labs concocted. Apparently, the doses in her brain were near the realm of being lethal. They would have had crippling physical effects on Agent GV400983. Forensics doesn't believe that she could have made the swim through the sea water.
I'll get to the point and past your anticipation. The movie you are about to view was created from information that was extracted from the neural synapses of Agent GV400983. Our Bio-medical Technology Research Group has devised a way to interpret the information from a human brain post mortem! Contrary to what was believed for several decades, people's thoughts do not die with them!
The thoughts can only be recovered a few days after death and only the most recent events in memory can be recovered. I think they are within the temporal lobe - I can't recall right now. The agent was cryogenically frozen upon completion of her autopsy here in Canada.
The movie is a computer interpretation and rendering of the last moments of the agent's life. I was deeply hoping that she would have read the technology documents and we could have recovered them this way -- as it was out last hope for them.
As I said the agent had high chemical doses in her blood. The movie starts at the beginning of her last memory as she regains conscience on the sand at the edge of the sea. I firmly believe this is evidence that she did make the swim and then collapsed. Because of the drugs we cannot be certain that what we see is entirely accurate. We can be sure that this is what she perceived to have seen -- as the landscape is exactly the same as our intelligence topographies.
After the movie I'll provide you each with a copy of the document explaining how it was created.
Let's see it now. Start the movie!!
Movie Specs:
Software:
* Corel Bryce 4.0 and 5.0 (world construction, camera, and
rendering)
* Adobe Photoshop 4.0 (texture editing)
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Ulead VideoStudio 5.0 (movie clip assembly, text addition,
and sound inlay)
Resolution: 240 x 180
Data rate: 250 Kb/s
Frame rate: 24 frames/s
Total frames: 840 frames
File size: 10.4 Mbytes
Total rendering time: > 25 hours
Polygon count: > 1.1 million polygons
Object count: > 150 objects
Landscape:
This landscape (world) is composed of numerous environmental objects. These include ground, water and sky planes, mountains, rocks and trees.
Setting:
The setting is that of an inner coastal, nearly barren region. The camera views take place in a large area of dozens of hills and small mountains. The vegetation is sparse in this dry area composed most of sand, rock and a clay like ground. The low lying ground around the edge of the sea has allowed for puddles or small ponds to form near the sea's edge. Possibly from the waves or a small change in tide. In the very far distance are huge mountains. They are part of a long range that is somewhat snow dabbled at their peaks. The sun is lowering through the sky and the clouds are slowly drifting East away from the sun. The highly clear water subtly ripples in the gentle winds as it reflects a moderate amount of light from the low sun.
High definition (polygon) objects:
Helmut, Luger pistol, military
vehicles, dragonfly and sea-turtle were obtained as DXF files from 3D Cafe
(www.3dcafe.com). They are copyright of their respective owners.