A better visio diagram

Believe in making the best of anything I do, so I've decided to follow these rules in my visio network diagrams:

1. Add title block to the network diagrams
2. Third-party network shapes
3. Manage network information
4. Generate custom network reports
5. Show IP addresses on network diagrams with "Label Shapes"
6. Link the network diagrams together
7. Save the network diagrams as web pages for ubiquity's sake
   

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/visio-help/7-keys-to-better-visio-network-diagrams-HA001111912.aspx

Stage Backdrop Design

So before I forget, we needed a backdrop for the stage. So I've amalgamated the poster designs to come up with this. It was a hit!

Tears from the heart

Today, I received an email for my demoreel. I thought they'd forgotten. Turns out the process took a loooooong time.

But I had a problem. A real big one. I haven't finish my thesis yet. So I did not spend any time at all on my demoreel. And I'd like to graduate. I'd like to graduate first. Oh but I am so close. So close I can taste it. I am so close to my dream.

So I cry. I cried for a lost opportunity. But then I realise... I am employable! Somebody actually didn't think I am all garbage. And I am motivated. I am so motivated now.

Let's go thesis. Allons y!

Final Poster of Year 2010

I've taken inspiration from these 2 sites:


http://ratemyhagwon.com/2009/05/21/seoul-fashion-report-book-michael-hurt/


http://bloggingprojectrunway.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-from-blayne-walsh.html

And was planning to use images similar to these:

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs44/f/2009/115/f/b/Legs_And_The_Pink_Tights_by_bluenote70.jpg



http://buttertoastboutique.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/dscn1162.jpg


But since I've already coloured the cartoons provided by Emily, I've decided to just use those cartoons anyway. And borrowing ideas from the first 2 runway posters, made these 2 for printing:

Design website

This webbie is an absolute delight! I heart.

http://www.septemberindustry.co.uk/

Found from a new random love : http://www.missmoss.co.za/

Digitizing traditional media

Well, not really.

But what happened was Emily didn't have enough time to colour her drawings. So she sent me her sketch.

To which I had to digitize in Photoshop (still using CS2) and then add colours.

Here's how: http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Color-to-a-Scanned-Picture-Using-Photoshop

And this is the final result!!



Skin swatches from: http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/Video/Using_Pinning_for_Skin_Tones.htm and http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/Video/PrepressTargetValuesForSkin.jpg

Scientific Resume

I know I will have to prepare a scientific resume soon. So here's some really good reference with a good mix of science but not so much that is it a pure scientific resume. Basically people like me, Master level degree but most probably not getting a phD or going into the academic track.

Scientifically based

http://www.nealen.net/prof.htm : What I like about Nealen's page is the publications layout with small graphical examples and the quick pages view on the research papers right beside the abstract.


Graduate Students' CV

http://www.kcc3.com/code.php : Displaying all the projects done as student but not too shabby.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jingwanl/CV.htm : Clean CV. Very pleasing to read.

Fluid Dynamics - Smoke

As I'm doing my survey for the dissertation, I've come across some newer papers on this subject that improves the complexity / limitation of some of the popular methods.

Here they are. I will need them when I start my project.



Starting out with Fluid Dynamics

http://www.efluids.com/



PAPERS

Energy-Preserving Integrators for Fluid Animation

http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~keenan/project_epifa.html


Washington Uni: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/



TUTORIALS

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/fluid-simulation-for-video-games-part-1/

http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/isnas/report94-24/isrep2.html



WIKIS

CFD : http://www.cfd-online.com/Wiki/Main_Page



FLUID PEOPLE

Bridson - http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/
Treuille - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~treuille/
Stam - http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~stam/reality/Research/pub.html
Fedkiw - http://physbam.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/
Selle - http://physbam.stanford.edu/~aselle/

Nielsen - http://www.daimi.au.dk/~bang/



APPLICATIONS

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs567/2007sp/a4SmokeControl/index.html : Interactive Smoke Control, java based.

http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Fabrice.Neyret/Etudiants/sujet3Master2009_10-en.html : Amplifying smoke simulation, C++ & OpenGL - no sample codes.

http://www.win.tue.nl/~alext/COURSES/INFO_VIS/SOFTWARE/smoke.html : Real-time smoke simulation, C/C++ & OpenGL (using FTTW) - sample codes provided.


The Little Grasshopper - graphics programming tips

FANTASTIC SITE WITH FREQUENT PAPERS UPDATE


By Christopher Batty

http://animationphysics.wordpress.com/

The infamous Ke-Sen Huang

http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/


Focused:

Thyson Brochu - interest in fluid dynamics

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tbrochu/Tyson_Brochu.html

Philip Fu - Prof in NTU, good general links to many important graphics knowledge.

http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/cwfu/



HAPPILY FLUID DYNAMICS DUDES

(Pure Mechanical Engineering Numerical Method, Computer Graphics almost always reduces some terms)

I was reading this forum and thought it is a good one and everyone should read this too:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=287547

Here it is recommended to read: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/fluent/cfd/intro.pdf


Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Basics with Applications by John David Anderson

Who is Seth Godin?

Interesting and eloquent. Let me read a little more and figure out for myself.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

STRAT PROGRAMME

http://www.sedb.com/edb/sg/en_uk/index/why_singapore/Guide_to_Investing_in_Singapore/recruiting_training.html

In case all else fails... Maybe this is another option. Caveat? +2 years in Singapore after training.

Perl: Can reuse these simple perl

http://accad.osu.edu/~mlewis/Class/Perl/perl.html

Gallifrey Monkey

"I'm from a different time. Heck, I'm a time lord who'd lost his tardis!"
"You're a Gallifrey monkey, if Gallifrey has monkeys, you're what it would be like."

Bored

Where are you going?
Nowhere...
You have too much time on your hands, don't you? Just don't buy too much shoes.

Semester 4: Them

I got Prof Normal as my Literature Review (DR) supervisor. Everyone says he's great and helpful. But he obviously didn't help me. I did pretty much everything on my own. Ah well. And might I add, he's a perfectionist and made me cry (my fault for crying).

Prof L. Wind
He's the big kahuna of our programme. But... He speaks in monotone and with this horrible accent which in my opinion is a cross between spanish and chinese (actually it's just fully chinese but I felt they're some sprinkles of spanish). I spent the whole semester playing with my hair and Robot Girl spent the whole semester sleeping. Really she did. I even took pictures of her sleeping in the class which she'd promptly deleted when she saw.

Gone Mad

I've suddenly gone mad and decided that I do want to go for a phD.

I guess, it was partly fueled by my crazy PMs, and their illogical requests to work that's all just a waste of time. My time.

I feel... why are they wasting my brain juice and shit like that???
I want out. OUT from this life. From people like this!

Yay! Siggraph

Accepted into Siggraph SV!!!

Can't wait to meet all the brilliant minds!

Scientific Visualization

1. What is?

2. Functions of graphics library.

3. Visualization Toolkit (vtk)

4. Data Representation

5. Topological Dimension: http://www.math.okstate.edu/mathdept/dynamics/lecnotes/node36.html

6. Basic Visualization Algorithms

7. Data Interpolation

8. Topological Operations

9. Advanced Visualization Algorithms

10. Modeling Algorithms

11. Image Processing

12. Applications

Gradient-based and quasi-Newton

http://www.math.cmu.edu/~shlomo/VKI-Lectures/lecture1/node2.html

Bioinformatics - wanna read

Read this when the sem is over:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838t/

MS Word - Different Header and Footer

I've made some images for the page numbering that I'd like to use for my print design. But just so I don't need to be the only person doing all the art work, I've also used MS Word for consolidation instead of producing the pages in Photoshop or Magiq. Now, don't get me wrong, MS word is my defacto word processor. However, I've never used it to produce any of my print work, so to speak.

So I have a problem, I want to use the page numbering images I've made for the pages. Here's how:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5018106_create-different-headers-word.html

However, at step 13, I've used "Next Page" instead of "Continuous".