LIVE MATRIX PROJECT
CGGC and GIP lab project
CS faculty, Technion
In this project we created a matrix movie like effect over a pre-constructed scene. starting from a normal room and by a push of a button the scene changes: it becomes matrix world
CREATING THE MATRIX
a shader story..
The goal of our project was to create a matrix movie like effect over a pre-constructed scene.
We used 3D Graphics engine to create a shader to mimic a scene from the famous Matrix movie of the text rain.
The shader was demonstrated using an abstract scene for this purpose.
We’ve tried a few different methods and two graphic engines for this matter -
Unity, using the build in shadergraph feature. and Unreal.
at the end we got result on both, with Unreal being a more flowing scene.
Our base model
Upon starting the project, our assignment as presented by our supervisors was to mimic the famous matrix movie scene showing a hallway and three agents, were the matrix code flows over all the viewable surfaces.
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According to the presented scene, and in order to distinguish items shows in the scene, we had to find a way to differ the shader's color and density so complex object, such as a person, would be visible over walls for example.
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Our scene runs a blueprint, calculating the complexity of each shown items, and use it as input to generate a tailored shader in real time for each object.
