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2009

Graphics Alumni Meetup

Graphics Alumni Meetup
Graphics Alumni Meeting in San Francisco (25 March)
Former Graphics Lab staff members and students meet in San Francisco during the Game
Developers Conference. Chris Butcher, Simon McCullum, Sui-Ling Ming-Wong, Alexis
Angelidis, Hugh Malan and Stuart Sharpe.

2008

Fantastic Contraption
Fantastic Contraption 2008 (17 October)
Graphics Group has the first Real World Fantastic Contraption competition.


Smart Day Photo 2008
Smart Day 2008 (Friday 6 June): Graphics Group and friends. Lunch was
at St. Lee's. Click on the above photo for a larger image.

2007

Smart Day Photo 2007
  • Smart Day 2007 (Friday 15 June): Graphics Group and friends.
    Lunch was at St.Lee's. Click on the above photo for a larger image.
    See down the page for last year's photo or the Gallery page for more past photos.
 

2006

  • PhD Opportunities: From 2006, international students enrolling for PhD study at Otago will be eligible to pay local level fees. Together with an Otago PhD Scholarship or an International Doctoral Research Scholarship and improved work opportunities this makes Otago the best choice for obtaining your PhD in Computer Science!

  • Photo 2006
    Smart Day 2006 (Thurs 18 May): Graphics Group and friends. Lunch was at Eureka.
    Click on the above photo for a larger image. See down the page for last year's photo or
    the Gallery page for more past photos.
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  • AnimfxNZ 2006 will be held in Wellington on Nov 4th and 5th. It is the first animation and visual effects symposium ever held in New Zealand. Speakers include influential figures from studios such as DreamWorks SKG, Warner Bros. Feature Animation, Weta Digital, and Pixar, as well as leaders in technology research and development from IBM's TJ Watson Research Laboratory ... amongst others.
  • Congratulations to Joe who got married on Friday. Here are the afternoon tea pics: tea & cake and a panoramic view (the latter courtesy of Natalie and Roland) (9 June 2006)
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  • Alexis Angelidis is back until Septmeber from the DGP Lab before heading to Pixar. In the meantime he has taken up a visiting research position collaborating with Brendan McCane. (May 2006)
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  • 2006 visiting internships (U of Twente): Arthur Melissen, Scott Willcox, Rob Ebbers, Joost Vromen; (TU of Denmark): Jeppe Frisvad; (U of Southampton): Benny Lam
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  • Robert Visser arrives from the U. of Twente to start his PhD (20 April 2006)
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  • Check out cartoonresearch.com for the latest releases of animations!
 

2005

  • The Graphics Lab hosted two major conferences in November 2005: Graphite 2005, the 3rd international conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia, and IVCNZ05, Image and Vision Computing New Zealand.

  • OUSA 2005 Teaching Award for Brendan McCane.
    Congratulations to Brendan who was one of the 10 recipients of this year's OUSA's Teaching Awards. The award ceremony was held in the Registry Building on 13 October, attended by students and staff.

  • Freeware release of Tartini: Music Analysis Tool
    Tartini is a real-time music analysis tool being developed by PhD student Phil Mcleod, Geoff Wyvill and Don Warrington (Physics). It allows a musician to simply play sound into the computer and it will display useful technical information about your sound including information on pitch, dynamics (loudness) and harmonic structure. This is suitable for both amateur and professional musicians alike.
    Tartini has sparked intrest around the world and you can download this amazing software for free on www.tartini.net.
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  • SIGGRAPH pioneers
    Pioneers at SIGGRAPH 2005 (From left to right): Geoff Wyvill, Tom Sederberg, Jim Blinn and Martin Newell.
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  • Photo 2005
    Smart Day 2005 (Thursday 5th May): the Graphics Group and
    friends. Lunch was at St Lees. Click on the above photo for a larger image.
    For more photos on the day click here.
    Take a look at last year's photo or go to the Gallery page for more past photos!


2004

Photo 2004
  • Smart Day 2004 (Thursday 3rd June 2004). Click on the above photo for a larger image.
    Go to the Gallery page for past photos!


  • Congratulations to Chris Handley, who has been promoted Senior Lecturer. (Oct 2004)

  • Congratulations again to Alexis Angelidis, who has received another Best Paper Award this time at Pacific Graphics 2004 (annual international conference on computer graphics and applications) in Seoul, Korea for his paper, "Swirling Sweepers: Constant Volume Modeling". (10 Oct2004)

  • We farewell graphics lecturer, Scott King, who returns to the US to take up a post at Texas A& M-Corpus Christi. Here are the photos ofthe farewell at the Graphics lab and later that night at Filadelfio's. (2 July 2004)

  • Congratulations to Alexis Angelidis, who received the Best Paper Award at SMI'04 (International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2004) in Genova, Italy for his paper, "Sweepers: Swept User-Defined Tools for Modeling by Deformation". (9 June 2004)<