A newspaper article was written about me for the Würzburg newpaper, the Main-Post. I can’t find it online in their archives, but here’s a scan of it and the original picture from the article. I’ve also posted an English translation of the article below.
I defended my Master’s thesis on June 21st. All of the deliverables including the report and defense have been uploaded to my thesis page. The last few weeks working on it was one of the more brutal things I’ve ever worked on, but also one of the more gratifying. As a result, I have a nice, bound book that I’ve written that can be put on the bookshelf.
Since then, it’s been nothing but sipping cocktails on the porch in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Actually… it’s been a lot of reading, packing, traveling, disposing, and recycling. As of right now, my life fits into about 4 file boxes and a couple backpacks. Two of those backpacks will come with me to Germany and the rest my belongings will be stuffed into the attic awaiting my debut into the Real World.
Almost all of the assignments I did for classes last quarter were done using the cgkit graphics library. I’ve posted all of the code that was written for these assignments. Maybe somebody will benefit from it. Here’s everything that’s there:
So…. months ago (I mean months, like… May 2005), I got the idea to apply for a Fulbright scholarship as a way to get back to Europe and Germany.
Fast forward five months to October, and I’ve submitted my application, essays, etc., with the expectation that I’ll hear something around the end of January.
Fast forward another four months and I hear back that I’ve made the American cut. This means that I’ve got to start submitting application materials to the PAD. This means….. everything’s in German from here on in.
After running around like a madman, I get all the application materials in for the March 1 deadline.
Fast forward 30 days and I got the Fulbright! That brings us to today… the physical and hearing test are scheduled and I’m waiting to find out where in Germany I’m going.
For anyone keeping track, Jessica Lieberman and Catherine Winne were indispensable to me througout the whole process.
Just in time for the end of the quarter, I’ve complete both of my projects. I’m not crazy about how either of them turned out, but given my time constraints, they’re as good as they could be. Maybe I’ll get back to working on them in the future in my free time. Final reports have been posted for both of them: Animation Project and Computer Graphics 2 Project. Some movies from the animation project have also been posted. I might post some of my animation assignments later, but that’s about it for this quarter. Thank God.
A survey paper and presentation was posted. This work was done for my Animation Algorithms class. It has some tie-ins to my Master thesis, the topic of which is forthcoming.
A report on the progress on the animation project.
A report on the progress made on the CG2 project.
I’ve completed and posted the first couple assignments in my computer graphics courses (Computer Graphics 2 & Animation Algorithms). The first is a ray tracer built using python and the vector/matrix types from cgkit. Right now, it implements Phong and Phong-Blinn shading, with more fun stuff to come. For my animation course, I created a keyframing system built around cgkit.
Both proposals for projects (Snowballs & Snowfall) in both classes have been accepted, so expect to see some updates from those soon. I need to write two research papers as well, on topics currently unknown.
