Our book

On obsessions

Emily
10:31
i feel like he is lonely
same as us
deep inside we just need to share

vvsy@hotmail.com
10:31
yes

Emily
10:31
without worrying if ppl will laugh at us

vvsy@hotmail.com
10:31
i agree
we want so much in life
and in the end, we need to give up something
and alot of us choose the easiest

Emily
10:32
good say

vvsy@hotmail.com
10:32
which is friends
or company
because that is the hardest to control
so we choose the ones we can control

Emily
10:32
plswrite this down!!!!
for our book!!!!!!!!!!!

vvsy@hotmail.com
10:33
career, studies, freelance....
lol
yes yes

When true friends come in all modes

Emily
10:39
I dun like to pretend like I am some little lady
i just love to speak out my mind
hahah
the other i talked to siew peng

vvsy@hotmail.com
10:39
yes i a gree

Emily
10:39
we both feel that
how much we miss the buddies next to us
instead of pc screeen and handphone

vvsy@hotmail.com
10:40
i know....
and worst
we feel our pc buddies more fun than the ppl around us
siao....

Emily
10:40
hahahahhahah
true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i feel that everyone needs care
tell u another story


It's the little things that count

Emily
10:41
a client's parent passed away
i boguht a hallmark card
and sent to her
she always had account with us
jsut never put money
aftershe rec
she pump in more than rm 1 mio

vvsy@hotmail.com
10:42
WOAH

Emily
10:42
she is financial controller of that comoany

vvsy@hotmail.com
10:42
orh

Emily
10:42
she gets to decide where to put the surplus fund

vvsy@hotmail.com
10:42
i i see
it really is the little things that count.....................................

Emily
10:42
so i bought the hallmark card for rm 10
yes!


On beauty

beauty is not natural
beauty is an effort

How to pace all the school modules

As of now, I've decided I have to get at least B or B+ to stay in grad school.

Difficult modules:

2D & 3D Animation
Scientific Visualization

Modules with a lot of assignments:

2D & 3D Animation
3D Modelling & Reconstruction
Computer Animation & Simulation

Easy modules:

HCI


This Sem:
VR (core)
2D & 3D Animation (core)
HCI (elective)????????????????????????

Up to this point, I've completed 1 elective.

Next Sem:


Interesting electives:

3D Modelling & Reconstruction
Computer Animation & Simulation
Scientific Visualization

So there... I've chosen the modules I am interested in.

Here's the difficult part. There's a choice here:
1. Dissertation: 6AU == 2 modules of study.
2. Directed reading: 3AU

Option 1 is similar to Full Time option.

Option 2 is a smaller scale of Dissertation but need another module to fulfill all the AU.

If I choose option 2, Then I am quite interested in:

Introduction to Games Design (elective)



The plan is to complete 2 modules each semester; therefore I will complete within 2.5 to 3 years. Ok... Sounds good.

BUT, must decide by this sem if I want to do dissertation or not. Choose your topic, girl.

Animation Pipeline

This is one that has been quite a blur for me till now.

However, I am reading from: http://www.donbluth.com/academy.html

And here's what it's all about.

There are 5 major steps the animated film must go through after the script is approved and before the original score and final sound effects are added. They are:

1. Storyboard
2. Ruff Animation
3. Clean Up
4. Special Effects Animation
5. Final Color

I like how this guy puts it:

In the past, people would have said "assembly-line". In computer graphics, one uses the term "rendering pipeline" and I think it's possible that the term "animation pipeline" developed from it. It may well now be used for traditional animation as well, but I suspect that it came from computer graphics and animation.

"Pipelining" is a programming term. "Pipes" are a typical feature of UNIX-like operating systems. A "pipe" is an entity that makes it possible for different processes to communicate. In fact, this topic is called "Inter-Process Communication" or "IPC". Pipes are one way of performing IPC; there are others. A typical style of programming in UNIX-like environments involves the use of "filters". A "filter" is a program that reads the output of one program and writes to the input of another using pipes.
If you type a command at the command line that looks like this:

> program_a | program_b | program_c

the "|" characters represent pipes. If you're programming, you can create pipes explicitly in your program.

The process of creating complex computer graphics can be implemented in this way. A single, monolithic program doesn't have to do all the jobs. For example, you could write a modelling program that passes its output to a program that does hidden surface removal. It, in turn, passes its output to a program that performs the first stage of rendering. Rendering is quite a complex task, so it's reasonable to divide it up into several stages.

Laurence Finston