Shengri La Spirit: A Designer's Perspective of the Making of OpenSim [Paperback]

Shenlei E. Winkler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 21, 2009

Shengri La Spirit is an important part of the early history of OpenSim (OpenSimulator.org). Shengri La Spirit was an early, large-scale, beautiful build that helped move the code base forward. Shengri La Spirit is the high-prim region originally hosted by IBM as part of the research agreement with Fashion Research Institute. Its development enabled performance testing while inspiring the imagination of designers and content creators about the possibilities of OpenSim. Spirit was the first large scale development of beautiful content and the first organic high-prim count region (41,414 prims). This is the story of the journey of not only its creation, but also of the growth of the OpenSim code base. Lavishly illustrated with images created in the region Shengri La Spirit, the book chronicles the early days of content creation in OpenSim.

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About the Author

Shenlei Winkler (Shenlei Flasheart in SL) is a 30 year veteran of the fashion industry. Her work spans both couture and mass market design and development for the real life apparel industry. A successful designer, her lifetime sales of her real life apparel designs have now reached more than $70 million USD, with more than 25 million-dollar styles in her portfolio. Her couture work has appeared extensively on stage and movie screen. Winkler has also enjoyed success in Second Life, where she has designed fashion since 2005, with three popular brands including Prim & Proper (one of the top Second Life earners in 2006), Flash & Trash, and Debutante. Her educational background includes three design degrees, including two from the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology. She has also been instrumental in developing large-scale creative installations in OpenSim-based worlds, most notably Shengri La Spirit, previously hosted by IBM, and Shengri La Gallery, both of which will be published Summer 2009 as publicly accessible regions hosted by Intel Corporation. Founder of the Fashion Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on helping designers achieve their dreams with dignity, integrity and respect, she is currently the CEO of the Fashion Research Institute which is focused on researching and developing virtualization technologies with particular emphasis for the apparel industry. She is an adjunct instructor at FIT and Buffalo State University. Her research areas include content licensing for virtual goods, virtualization of enterprise in immersive workspaces, OpenSim enterprise application development, and user immersion in virtual worlds. Winkler may often be found in the Fashion Research Institute Shengri La regions in Second Life, where her seminal orientation program for immersive spaces may be experienced.

Product Details

• Paperback: 142 pages
• Publisher: Fashion Research Foundation (August 21, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0984117113
• ISBN-13: 978-0984117116
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,341,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)