Chemistry AR

Inspiration

Chemical reactions and chemical elements in chemistry are abstract subjects that students find difficult to learn and make the topic uninteresting for learning. Chemistry AR is a novel augmented reality snap len that assists chemistry students during their learning of chemistry, using the Augmented Reality platform provided by SnapAR from Snapchat. Chemistry AR provides the prototypical 3D model of each chemical component and can get the simulation of the integration of two or more elements to create a new chemical compound.

What it does

Chemistry AR is an augmented reality snap chat lens that helps visualize the physical and atomic form of each chemical element in the periodic table. In addition, AR Chemistry contains a compound mode that allows you to combine various chemicals element together to create and discover new chemical compounds. For now only the element H, O, C, N, Na, Cl, Si were implemented. For chemical compound Chemistry AR only support these combination : H2O, CO2, SiO2, NaCl

How we built it

All of the models in Chemistry AR were made using either Blender or a resource that already existed in Lens Studio. Currently, Chemistry AR contains an element mode and a compound mode.

Before using the Chemistry AR lens, the user must make a chemical element rectangular flashcard as shown below or simply click on the link and download the premade flashcard and print them out.

Figure 1 . Example Flashcards for Chemistry AR

Printable Flashcard Link

Element mode displays the physical form of the chemical element as well as a brief description of the element properties.

Figure 2 . Sodium Flashcard in Element Mode

Figure 2 . Silicon Flashcard in Element Mode

Compound mode is when the user wants to combine multiple chemical elements together to create. Users have the correct number of element flashcards display to have the chemical compound display. For example, Water would need 2 Hydrogen flashcards and one Oxygen flashcard.

Figure 4 . Quartz - 1x Si + 2x O e

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges that I encountered is how to create a machine learning model for my snap lens as the old google notebook was out of date and it did not work. Besides that, the process of getting proficient with Lens Studio take some time but all the template project did help out a lot on learning various feature in Lens Studio.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm proud of being able to create my machine-learning model for detecting chemical element flashcards, displaying the 3D model on top of flashcards, and completing the compound feature for my AR Chemistry lens.

What we learned

I learn how to create an AR snap lens in Lens Studio and create 3D model in Blender.

What's next for AR Chemistry

The next step is to implement the rest of the chemical elements, add in their atomic model, add more compound combinations, and do some AR chemistry lab experiments.

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