Week 2 + Independent Study

Ordinary Map:

Map with BumpMap:

The Barcelona pavilion is the chosen building.

Independent Study:

Three Materials:

Concrete:

Concrete goes through a curing process in order to set its materials into a strong compressive structure.
Concrete contains a number of different materials into its making; aggregate, water, cement and additives. It is a material that does well under high compressive strength but generally weak in tension. Under normal care concrete acts like sedimentary rock and can last up to 100 years however corrosion and other biological factors can shorten this by a large amount. Concrete is used for large structures that will undergo high compressive stress but not tension.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete

Glass:
Glass is made through high heat onto brittle crystalline structures and creating a rubber-molten material which when cooled becomes transitional. Glass is very brittle and has a very weak compression strength but average tension, its use in windows are in very thin sheets is common, colouring in glass is often due to FE2 impurities.
Glass at Wiki

Marble:
Marble is metamorphic rock, limestone that hasn't undrergone pressure yet when being formed. Marble is cut off rock through traditional means of splitting with wood drenched over wood to expand and crack along pre-tensed cracks or through modern means of sawing and chiseling. Marble is altered when attacked by biological invasion such as plants and cause cracking but otherwise they are high compressive strength.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble