Tide Pods| Rising Water

Project Details

The Challenge | Rising Water

Sea levels are rising around the world, and approximately 40% of the human population lives in coastal zones. Your challenge is to help communicate the impacts of rising oceans by creating a visualization tool that illustrates the changes caused by rising sea levels in your region.

Rise App

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Rise App is a virtual reality app wherein users will be put into the situation where it simulates the sea levels.

Tide Pods

Slides:

PDF Presentation

Repository:

ZIP of source code and assets


Tools Used:

  • Unity - Modeling and animation software
  • C# - Programming language used in Unity
  • Blender - 3D modeling app
  • Jupyter Notebook - Data analytics

Resources:

NASA Oceans Dataset

GSFC. 2017. Global Mean Sea Level Trend from Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeters TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, OSTM/Jason-2 Version 4.2 Ver. 4.2 PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [2019-10-19] at http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GMSLM-TJ42.

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