Aaron
Bergstrom
...received a BS in Anthropology in the spring of 1998
from NDSU, and is currently enrolled in in its anthropology
graduate program. He has several years experience in various
areas of web-design that include HTML, VRML, X3D, and other
multimedia formats. Most of Aaron's multimedia knowledge is
self-taught, though he has taken coursework for both Digital
Media and Multimedia & Web-design.
 Aaron has had several years of Web3D experience as the
NDSU World Wide Web Instructional Committee's VRML artist/programmer
for the Virtual Cell educational environment (Feb 1998 to
Sept 2001). Aaron was also employed by NDSU's Department of
Plant Sciences as the its web and online course developer
(Oct. 1999 to Sept 2001). He left the position to take his
current post with the NDSU Archaeology Technologies Lab.
Aaron started out in the 3D arena creating VRML97 for
NDSU's Virtual Cell project using graph paper, a pencil, and
WordPad around 1997. And for a while some of the models used
in VCell were created this way. Aaron has is experienced in
the use of several 3D authroing programs such as: CosmoWorlds,
3D Studio, and Maya. He has also used Shockwave3D, Maya Real-Time
Author, and Director.
Aaron has also created a Java3D-based viewer for our
DANA-WH project and I've coded 99% of the RawKee X3D exporter
plug-in for Maya. I've had to learn to write HTML, Javascript/ECMAScript,
PHP, Java/Java3D, VRML97, X3D, Lingo, MEL, and C++. In additon,
Aaron does web-design, video production and DVD authoring.
Aaron's ATL duties include overseeing the development
of the DANA 3D/multimedia viewers and the ATL website. He
also coordinates ATL laser scanning operations and consults
on all other ATL 3D/multimedia projects.
Phone #: (701) 231-6434
Contact
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