Advanced Graphics 2009 Web http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/AdvancedGraphics09 Main/Main RSS News Feed en-US Michael Gleicher gleicher@cs.wisc.edu no webmaster Wed, 13 May 2009 20:33:41 GMT pmwiki-2.2.0-beta68 with rsssimple.php v1.1 Keeping Score http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/AdvancedGraphics09/Main/Main(link)->#May132009153341 -] #May132009153341 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/AdvancedGraphics09/Main/Main(link)->#May132009153341 -] #May132009153341

In case you were wondering: we had really good compliance on the blog postings. For the old reading blogs, on average people contributed to 4 out of 5 (10/18 people contributed to all of them). For the Drupal ones, 6 out of 8 was average (9/18 contributed to all of them).

Also, I have gotten all of the project reports, thanks. I am going through them now. I've gotten all but 3 self/group evals. >>

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The Madison chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is having their meeting next week. Its open to anyone who is interested. www.igdamadison.org for more info. >>

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Fillament games (who does games for education stuff) is looking to hire people. http://www.filamentgames.com/jobs for both real jobs and summer interns. >>

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Please check Main.P3#toc6 >>

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If you're an undergrad and looking for something to do this summer, let me know. A colleague in Kinesiology is looking for someone to help implement an virtual reality system for studying how people manipulate objects. You can either write to Prof. Andrea Mason (amason@education.wisc.edu) directly, or tell me and I can introduce you.

There are some other possibilities as well (including working in our group). >>

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Basically, I expect you to spend the last week working on your project. But, we do have 2 last lectures.

We will do course evaluations on Monday - I really would like everyone to come and fill out the course evals. They do matter, and I do want to the feedback to help future course planning.

On Monday, I'll talk about deformations - going over some of the more basic methods (not as fancy as the as-rigid-as-possible stuff you saw recently), and hopefully getting to describe the shape-matching based deformation methods that are really cool, and suprisingly simple. You are not required to do the reading, but if you're curious, check out:

  • The "Fast Lattice Shape Matching" project page (here) - has the paper and some cool demos to play with
  • "Meshless Deformations Based on Shape Matching" (pdf) - the paper that inspired LSM. (its an older paper - it isn't important for understanding LSM)

For Wednesday, my plan is to say anything that is unsaid about deformations, tell you a little about psuedo-haptics (something so simple, its not worth reading about - but suprisingly cool), and saving some time to "wrap up" the whole class.

I'm also open to the idea on Monday of having a vote on what we should do Wednesday. >>

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Here is a calendar of what we've done in class. >>

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  • Friday, April 24th - we'll talk about papers related to projects. Readings described here
  • Monday, April 27th - we'll talk about motion capture puppetry. Readings here
  • Wednesday, April 29th - we'll talk about our SIGGRAPH paper, and some of the technology behind it. Readings here

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We'll talk more about motion synthesis things. Now that you've all picked your projects, maybe you'll want to look more closely at the details of the various methods.

The readings are to read things you need for your projects (see here).

Next week, we'll talk about other topics. An announcement coming soon. >>

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