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Held most Fridays at 2:30 pm, 523 Castle Street
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| Date 2009 |
Topic/Presenter
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| 22/05 |
Talk by: Dan Kyles
Title: Interactive Hair Simulation & Rendering
Dan will be presenting the project that he has been working on for the last year and a half with Straylight Studios.
The virtual hair is able to be cut, coloured, styled, saved & loaded, parted, ruffled and shaved. An overview of the simulation, rendering, collision system, hair volume approximation etc... will be given. Hopefully there should be enough time for everyone to have a play.
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| 15/05 |
Talk by: Reece Arnott
Title: Reprap Developments
The idea of the Reprap project was to develop a 3D printer capable of printing its own parts so a copy could be built. In principle, this means that anyone who wants a 3D printer can build it and then make the parts for someone else. If everyone who gets one, passes on two sets of parts, the number of printers will grow exponentially.
Reece has almost completed a Reprap 3D printer. It has inspired his PhD topic. Now he will tell us about recent Reprap developments and invite cooperation to get his machine working.
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| 08/05 |
Talk by: Carlo Vloet
Title: Photon Mapping by Hardware
As many of you will remember Mike Phillips did a MSc project here building a ray tracer using nVidia's programmable graphics hardware.
Carlo Vloet has been visiting us since November last year and will be leaving at the end of this month. He has been planning a hardware Photon Mapper based on the ideas from Mike's work. Now we get to hear what he has been doing for the last few months.
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| 01/05 |
Talk by: Ignas Kukenys
Title: Million Dollar Machine
Support Vector Machines (SVM) are a useful machine learning technique
for classification problems. Using them on image data we are able to
build classifiers that detect eyes and other components of human face.
But can this technique cope with very large data sets? Our most recent
work attempts to train a SVM on a data set of one million samples by
using different "divide and conquer" strategies.
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| 27/03 |
Talk by: Robert Visser
Title: Dogs!
Robert Visser will tell us about his phd work on simulating walking dogs.
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| 20/03 |
Talk by: Geoff Wyvill
Title: SIGGRAPH Asia Movies
This week, I propose to show a few short movies from the SIGGRAPH Asia animation festival.
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| 20/02 |
Talk by: Geoff Wyvill
Title: SIGGRAPH Asia
I will give a short talk tomorrow about SIGGRAPH Asia and show a couple of movies.
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