The focus of this thesis is to find the most modern methods to craft 3D characters for implementation in game engines. The industry is constantly adapting to new software and my study is to cover the most efficient way to create a character from an idea to fully realized character in 3D. The following is my journey in learning new techniques and adapting to the new software. To demonstrate, I will work through the process of creating a character from a 2D concept to a 3D model rendered in real time.

The primary purpose of the present study was to compare the quality of spontaneous language samples elicited from twelve low socioeconomic, normally developing, migrant Spanish-speaking subjects by their mothers in the home and by this investigator in the clinic. The subjects ranged in age from three years, one month to six years, nine months.

This dissertation studies the politics of collective identity in the essays of Jesús Colón, Julia Álvarez and Richard Rodriguez. Through their essays I study the different configurations of collective identity (mainly those of Latino people, minorities, diasporic, transnational and national subjects) that these writes evaluate from their social position in the United States. A review of their works reveals important aspects about the problem of identity of a first and second generation of Latinos who try to understand themselves as part of the heterogeneous community in the United States. These three writers focus on the malleability of identity and use it to understand different ideologies and values. In his essays Colón highlights the reality of a subject that is economically marginalized by the historical process of capitalism. In addition, he advocates for the union of transnational workers of the Puerto Rican Diaspora in New York, who face stratification and social isolation. In contrast, Álvarez explores the construction of a diasporic identity that relies on history and on transnationalism. This author places emphasis on her writing as a nation, as a means to reflect and re-write the Dominican transnational identity. Rodriguez, the third essayist I study in this research, promotes the foundation of an American identity and evaluates the ways in which it is obstructed by the practices of communities that identify as minority. The objective of my research is to analyze the development of Latino identity using the models that these authors explore. I rely on their ideas and techniques to study the complicated and conflicting process of the evolution of a collective identity. Throughout the 20th century, these authors developed their own approach to the ideological fragmentation and mestizaje emphasized by postcolonial thought. This fragmentation influences their interpretation of history, ethnic/racial identity, family, language, education, cultural hybridity, representation and nationalism.

This is home. es una obra de danza exploratoria y abstracta que investiga la combinación de danza con historias y temas de inmigración. Por selecciones entretejidas de historias personales grabadas de inmigrantes hispanohablantes y francófonos, la danza desenreda niveles de complejidad. Motivos de movimiento que recurren incluyen la navegación completa de la vulnerabilidad absoluta, manejar por lo desconocido, lo desfamiliar, la desorientación, la confrontación, relaciones ambientales entre grupo e individual, el descubrimiento de sí mismo, el éxito o fracaso en comunicar y la presencia o falta del apoyo y la camaradería. Dado que la narración es abstracta, deja que el espectador determine el mensaje final. El departamento de danza de Scripps College tiene un vídeo de las representaciones del 17 y 18 de abril 2015. This is home. is an exploratory abstract dance work that investigates the merging of dance with stories and themes of immigration. By way of interwoven selections from recorded personal histories of Spanish and French-speaking immigrants, the piece unravels layers of complexity. Recurring movement motifs include the navigation of complete and utter vulnerability, steering through the unknown, unfamiliarity, disorientation, confrontation, environmental relationships between group and individual, self-discovery, success or failure in communication, and the presence or absence of support and camaraderie. Because the narrative is abstract, the ultimate message is left to the viewer’s interpretation. A digital recording of the piece as performed on April 17-18, 2015 is on file in the Scripps College Dance Department.

An exploration of cinematography, societal expectations, and artist collaboration, “Fake It!” challenges the traditional definition of art. Part one follows the journey of creating a music video for an original song titled “Fake It!” by the band Model City. Location, lighting, camera, and editing choices are explained and connected to the song's themes of teenage angst, regret, and a rejection of societal norms. Part two explores the process of creating art by translating the hexadecimal color values from the music video into a new musical composition. This is accomplished through a mathematical process that converts the computer-identified RGB letters and numbers into notes on the musical scale.

Over the past 4 and a half years, I have studied contemporary art and seen countless artworks being made in an academic setting. In doing so, I have come to the realization that religious content is rare in today’s time. While it is not actively discouraged, the environment I am in and the current art community does not seem to be particularly interested in merging the two concepts. Without understanding why, I subconsciously kept art and my faith as separate entities for the first few years of my higher education. But as I matured and developed my own artwork, I began to feel as though my identity and my interests should be rooted in my relationship with God. Upon this reflection, I began looking for ways to make Christian art in a contemporary setting that could also be accepted by those who do not share my faith.

Biofuels are a sought-after alternative for fossil fuels in today’s society. More specifically, cellulose-based biofuel is an avenue of research intending to limit waste and provide new renewable energy. Cellulose is a rigid polymer of glucose monomers that is found abundantly across different agriculture crops. However, its stability is a barrier to energy production from this source. Pretreatment followed by hydrolysis of cellulosic materials serves a potential to produce glucose to be used in biofuels in larger quantities compared to other methods. This project studied the effect microwave pretreatment and oxygenation have on hydrolysis of cellulose in Arundo Donax. Arundo Donax ground samples are used in solution with acetic acid buffer (pH= 5.0) along with cellulase and maintained at 50°C. The solution’s concentration, in parts per million (ppm), of glucose after hydrolysis was measured over 96 hours using the dinitro salicylic acid method. The Michaelis-Menten constant for cellulase using Arundo Donax and Microcrystalline cellulose before pretreatment were found to be 29.965 g/L and 6.684 g/L, respectively. The concentration of glucose found in Arundo Donax reached a maximum of 310 ppm after 72 hours. In addition, oxygenation, and deoxygenation of buffer and Arundo solution as pretreatment did not yield significantly higher concentrations than Arundo without oxygen manipulation averaging a glucose production of 214.5 ppm with deoxygenation and 209.2 ppm with oxygenation. Microwave pretreatment of Arundo Donax followed by hydrolysis resulted in 29.2 ppm glucose.

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Esta tesis investiga el nivel de competencia bilingüe (la capacidad de un hablante para comprender y producir en dos idiomas) de los habitantes de la región de Tres Fronteras, Sudamérica. Tres Fronteras es el nombre de la zona trifronteriza entre las ciudades de Leticia, Colombia; Tabatinga, Brasil; y Santa Rosa de Yavarí, Perú. En Tres Fronteras, las personas de los tres países pueden cruzar libremente de un país a otro, lo que crea situaciones de contacto lingüístico entre el español y el portugués. Debido a esa situación de contacto lingüístico, muchas personas de las tres ciudades tienen al menos un conocimiento básico del otro idioma. De acuerdo con la metodología de Carvalho (1998, 2003, 2006, 2016) y Alvar (1977), 42 habitantes de la región fueron entrevistados primeramente en su L1 y, posteriormente, en su L2. Luego, a esos participantes se les asignó una calificación holística de acuerdo con su competencia en su L2, según una rúbrica lingüística. Después, a los participantes se les administró una encuesta en la que respondieron preguntas basadas en su propio uso de la lengua y el uso de los dos idiomas de la región. Los resultados cualitativos y cuantitativos de los datos recopilados brindaron una nueva perspectiva sobre el nivel de bilingüismo de esa área menos estudiada en la que la mayoría de los participantes fueron bilingües con una capacidad mucho más limitada en su L2 comparada con su L1. Las excepciones a esa tendencia aparecieron caso por caso con los participantes con experiencia significativa viviendo en el país de la L2 (brasileños viviendo en Colombia o Perú, o viceversa) siendo bilingües con altos niveles de competencia en su L2. Las similitudes entre el español y el portugués y la nivelación dialectal también parecen contribuir a la falta de motivación para dominar la L2, ya que la mayoría de las personas en el país que habla la L2 puede entender, en su mayor parte, el otro idioma con un cierto nivel de inteligibilidad mutua.

This study has been prepared as a teacher’s guide in the use of transformational grammar to teach a few grammatical structures in ALM Spanish Level Two. It is intended to aid the Spanish teacher in analyzing specific grammar points within the grammar section of the text. In essence, the present study has been prepared for the Spanish teacher who has a limited knowledge of linguistics or transformational grammar.