Chris Pascucci The Gift “The Gift” deals with the relationship that my brother and I had as we grew up. I used images from our childhood and distorted them around various shapes that I feel reflect the agony he put me through. The world is simple and concise for a reason. Mainly it allows the user to easily connect with the emotions I am trying to convey. I wanted to stay away from interactivity and animations to allow the user to experience the world in their own way. The only points of interactivity I added were simple Sphere and Cylinder sensors on the main objects. This provides the user with the opportunity to view the objects in a way that I may not have considered when I decided how to place them. The text is inspired by Allen Ginsberg and his use of repetition in his poem "Footnote to Howl. In general I expect the user to navigate the world linearly, finding their way to the end. At which point there is a link that takes the user to a web page which digs deeper into the theme of the project. This project's methodology was based mainly on an attempt to use a platform other than Cosmo to create VRML. I initially created a world entirely on the Macintosh using 3dWorlds and Strata Studio Vision. I wanted to limit my self to the Mac in hopes I would find a better medium than Cosmo, unfortunately my results were sub-standard. This forced me to very minimalistic in my style, which helped to focus my theme. Ultimately I wound up using Cosmo; its PEP modeling and texture application is superior to anything on the Mac these days. Also, Cosmo supports Sphere and Cylinder sensors, which I did not want to code by hand. References: Warhol, Andy. Warhol: Andy a picture show by the artist. New York : Rizzoli, 1987 Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1991 Kerouac, Jack. Book of dreams. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1981 Banks, Ian. The Wasp Factory. Simon & Schuster, 1998 Scarf, Susan. The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Adult Relationships Influence. Fawcett Books, 1997 Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art. Penguin USA, 1994