Creating 3D animations of laboratory experiments using open source tools

Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Learning, ICEL

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 440-449

  Sahasrabudhe, Sameer ^a   Iyer, Sridhar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

3D animation; Blender; Lab experiments; Open source tools

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; BLENDING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; CURRICULA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; LABORATORIES; REUSABILITY;

3D ANIMATION; BLENDER; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OPEN SOURCE REPOSITORIES; OPEN SOURCE TOOLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) ANIMATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); VAPOUR LIQUID EQUILIBRIA;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84938692918     PISSN: 20488882     EISSN: 20488890     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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