Green Lite Dartmouth is a multi-departmental project to help students use less energy in the dorms through real-time feedback, information and education. Inspired by the work of Donella Meadows, this Student Digital Arts Project encourages and supports electric use reductions on two floors of the McLaughlin Cluster dorms as a prototype for future efforts. Central to the project are animations displayed on monitors in the dorms. The animaitons show a polar bear whose health and happiness is dependent on the amount of electricity being used. As energy use goes up, the bear becomes more and more distressed. As it goes down, the bear can rest easy and be play.

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Motion Capture In Action was a real-time motion capture project that was premiered at the Bentley Theater at the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts on October 2, 2007. Combining the ancient art of dance with state of the art technology, we fit three dancers with specially designed suits. The dancers perform several pieces from Merce Cunningham dances as well as work choreographed specifically for this demonstration. As they dance, their motion is instantaneously transferred to three computer generated 3D models that dance along in unison with the dancers.

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Inspired by Daniel Rozin's work, an array of 32x32 servos – each representing a pixel – recreates an image captured by a digital web camera. The image is created by placing a sheet of polarizing film in front of the mirror and a disk of polarizing film on each servo. Rotating the servos creates different shades of gray and a pixilated image of the viewer is created in realtime.

This project has been awarded Second Prize for Team Innovation in the Kemeny Award 07.

A team of Dartmouth students has won Google's Build Your Campus in 3D Competition. Google asked, "How would your campus look in 3D?," and challenged students to use Google SketchUp and Google Earth software to find out. The Dartmouth group was one of seven winning teams chosen from more than 350 entries.

Lighting design is a fundamental aspect of computer cinematography. This work presents an interactive user interface that facilitates lighting workflow by using a sketching paradigm for light creation. Lights are specified by a series of strokes that define various properties of illumination such as shape of the light and position of illuminated and shadowed areas.

This project has been awarded First Prize for Individual Innovation in the Kemeny Award 07.