Assignment 1:
Topics in Graphics and Animation?
The goal of this assignment is for you to get some idea as to what is happening in graphics and animation research, so you can see what interests you (and what doesn't).
The idea is for you to browse some recent conference proceedings from the top graphics and animation conferences and see what looks interesting for you. Of course, nowadays, rather than sending you to the library I will point you at a web page. Unfortunately, the web is less effective: you can't flip pages as quickly and skim for the pictures. However, we'll do the best we can.
The most important conference in Computer Graphics is SIGGRAPH. Papers at SIGGRAPH cover a wide range of topics (not just animation). The best specialized animation conference is SCA (Symposium on Computer Animation).
Look through the proceedings of the past 2 SIGGRAPH and SCA conferences. Look over the session titles and the paper titles. Skim the abstracts. Browse the pictures. See what catches your eye.
Deliverables:
Be ready to discuss the topics that interest you in class on Monday, January 23rd.
Send email to the Professor BEFORE CLASS on Monday, January 23rd (before 8am) with the following:
- A list of 2-5 of the papers that most interest you (including papers that are about parts of graphics other than animation).
- A list of 2-5 of the papers that most interest you and relate to animation. (this list might overlap #1)
- A list of 1-3 topics in animation that most interest you.
Finding Papers:
The "correct" place for looking at these proceedings is the ACM Digital Library.
The Digital Library has the advantage that it also has the abstracts readily available. A disadvantage is that it is quite slow.
Some kind folks make a web page each year with unofficial links to SIGGRAPH and SCA papers. For a look at what they've indexed see http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/
- SIGGRAPH 2005 http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2005.html
- SIGGRAPH 2004 http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2004.html
- SIGGRAPH 2003 http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2003.html
- SCA 2005 http://myweb.hinet.net/home7/hks/Papers2005/sca2005Papers.htm
- SCA 2004 http://myweb.hinet.net/home7/hks/Papers2004/sca2004Papers.htm
- SCA 2003 http://myweb.hinet.net/home7/hks/Papers2003/sca2003Papers.htm
A caveat: what is appearing in the graphics conferences/journals might tell you what are hot topics in the research community, but might not reflect what is happening in practice.
