{"id":63,"date":"2013-06-27T15:39:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T23:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/?p=63"},"modified":"2017-01-22T19:05:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T03:05:24","slug":"bioshock-plasmid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/bioshock-plasmid","title":{"rendered":"Bioshock Plasmid"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was project was a result of a Calculus assignment in my senior year of high school. We were required to prove the theory behind Riemann Sums<\/a>\u00a0using physical slices of foam. To do this, we cut out a bunch of slices of known diameters (determined by a function) to create a shape, then calculate the area of that shape using calculus, and compare the two volumes.<\/p>\n

My partner (Steven Gloyd) and I decided to take the project a step further than most other groups. We used a combination of foam and plexiglass, then cut the center out of the plexiglass to insert illumination (LEDs controlled by a Microcontroller, programmed in Assembly, mounted on a custom-manufactured PCB), to create a real-life representation of a Bioshock Plasmid (from the videogame Bioshock). We used a lathe to achieve precision that other groups were not able to achieve with X-ACTO knives.<\/p>\n

Project Website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>This website dynamically preformed all of the calculations required. I wrote the 1200 line php script that generates that page because I wanted to become more adept with php and 3D modeling, and it is also designed to be printed out so that we could just print out our poster (go efficiency!).<\/p>\n

\"Bioshock<\/a>

A picture of the final finished product.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was project was a result of a Calculus assignment in my senior year of high school. We were required to prove the theory behind Riemann Sums\u00a0using physical slices of foam. To do this, we cut out a bunch of slices of known diameters (determined by a function) to create a shape, then calculate the
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