choose one of the following:
Thursday Nov 28 -- class room
Thursday Nov 30 -- cse bldg
Q and A:
Q:
For example, if I wanted to do the "Present a Siggraph paper" option
is it required to build the entire simulation from scratch?
A: no
Q:
Do you recommend trying to find accompanying source code for the paper and modifying it to some extent?
A:
yes, if the modification shows command of the code
Q:
"Present a physics engine" option:
would our presentation consist of running through everything that
the physics engine is capable of (with simulations) and
then explaining how it does them?
A:
no -- give an overview and pick two challenging tools to explain.
Q:
If we choose our topic now but run into difficulty later, can we change our topic?
A:
Yes, but I have to agree
Q:
Is there any penalty other than lost time?
A:
No
Q:
blender2sofa: "You do not have access to this repository."
A:
This is fixed.
You will also need (later on)
https://bitbucket.org/surflab/surflab-release/downloads/
Q:
is paper X ok?
A:
the papers have to relate to the topic of the class: "physics" in
game or animation etc
We did not cover neural nets nor did we cover 'Fresnel holography and double phase amplitude encoding' or space mapping.