Research Topics in Graphics and Multimedia, Spring 2000

Overview:

This will be a projects class. You will have a lot of flexibility as to how you contribute to this class - mostly I'll be looking for you to do a creative and fun project in the roughly two months we have.

I expect that most of student projects will grow out of the topics we discuss in class, which are outlined fairly well on my NYU home page.

Right now it is important for you to email to me descriptions (if you haven't already) of where you think you would like to focus from among the categories of topics we went over in the first week.

Schedule (tentative):

First Intro week.

Monday: Overview of the next hundred years; The Prosthetic Web and the Immersive Holodeck. Implications for the next ten years. Projects to do in the next two months.

Wednesday: Ken's web page, part 1; Hypertexture, Improv, BodyGuy, Interactive facial animation, Zooming whiteboard.

Second Intro week.

Monday: Ken's web page, part 2; Autostereoscopic displays, Foveated ultra-high resolution displays, Robots. Interactive puzzles.

Wednesday: We all go over your project proposals.

Guest lectures by Chris Bregler and Aaron Hertzmann.

Zooming whiteboards.

Authoring tools for interactive animation

Research topics in procedural texturing.

Monday: Real time noise in detail

Wednesday: Pie in the sky - the future of procedural texturing

Autostereoscopic and ultra-hi resolution displays.

Zooming web interfaces for Cel phones and PDAs.

Puzzle and diversions.