Research
Research Highlights
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have shown a great potential in creating, identifying, and trading digital ownership, and can be used to build the economics in the future metaverse. It is important for the users to understand the basic concepts of NFTs before they engage in a virtual society or application that uses NFTs to represent digital assets. Traditional learning methods like reading articles are inefficient to support active learning of a new concept.
At the MAGIC Center, our team pushes the boundaries of digital media research by fusing digital art, game design, and advanced computing. We’re dedicated to elevating the quality of virtual representations and refining user experiences with our custom-made interactive tools. Our shared vision of innovation makes it the ideal space for our digital explorations.
In the modern era, games and other applications are required to render increasingly large meshes. To improve rendering performance, developers typically leverage parallel computing, for example, utilizing GPU threads. Balancing the workload among these threads is crucial for enhancing performance. As such, applications with these needs stand to benefit greatly from the balanced mesh segmentation method.
The Spell Grant
MAGIC Spell Studios is pleased to announce the inaugural Spell research seed grant program for faculty and staff at RIT. At MAGIC, we learn by making things! The Spell Grant program serves to provide researchers at RIT with seed funding up to $5000 to aid their pursuit of external grant awards in their field. Funds are provided to assist faculty and staff researchers investigating any direct application of digital media in art, games, interactivity and creativity. Eligible submissions may include focus on art or technology, entertainment or serious distribution, humanities or engineering, storytelling or discovery, with an outcome focused on successful submission of one or more proposals for continued extramural funding. View more details about the Spell grant.
The 2025 process has concluded, stay tuned for the award announcements!
Students and faculty embrace our motto “we learn by making things,” by contributing to projects above and beyond their classroom requirements. Whether for research and independent exploration or in hopes of starting up their own studios and businesses, project teams publish films, games, interactive experiences and more for public distribution through MAGIC.
Affiliated Research
The MAGIC center is home to several multidisciplinary research labs at RIT that welcome faculty and students from all academic disciplines. Each lab represents a specialized focus area in media. Contributors are engaged in curriculum, exploratory research, and applied design at the intersection of technology and the arts.
Frameless Labs
Open@RIT
Virtual Production