For those of you who don't know, I am working at Microsoft over the summer. I will talk more about it later, but I just thought I say this.

OneNote is amazing.

I love OneNote and I am going to use it forever.

Also, omgpop.com is also amazing.

You can read the paper if you wish. The math is complicated, but the abstract should be enough to tell you all information.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/b-cam/Papers/Chentanez-2009-ISN/index.html

So finally my short film finished. This was a two semester long project with 12 people in my group. I mostly did the shading of the characters and the stem of the zombie rose. Let me know what you guys think ( Read more... )

YOU should get a blip.fm account, cuz I want to know what you are listening to (looking at you brad and mike) and try it out without having to find it ( Read more... )

"100 Movies to see before you die
...according to the staff at Yahoo! Movies
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I really liked today's XKCD. http://xkcd.com/543/

I am a tutor at the selfpace center (a place where people take selfpace courses to learn a specific CS language). One of the programming assignments is making Life1D. I love rule 30. =D

I have to say Super Furry Animals - It's Not the End of the World? is one of the most impressive short animation films I have seen in regards to style, lighting, set design, and even textures. The mechanical functionality of each object is very clever. I also love how they play around with the framing of each shot with that mechanical outline. That ( Read more... )

The paper is finally finish and submitted and cannot no longer haunt me EVER again. 

WHERE HAS THIS SITE BEEN FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS!?

I have been working on bump mapping with normal and specular maps forever. Creating the shader was not the hard part. It creating the various texture maps... I have mostly been winging it. But since I am not a photoshop guru, this site (which is the first hit on google when you search "specular maps ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a long time. And right now, I am posting in the lab because debugging is frustrating. I also have two monitors at my workstation, but the bigger monitor(26 inch wide screen) has lower max resolution(1280 x 720) than the smaller one (20 inch square has 1600x1200). This is destroying my eyes. I just want to steal one of my other ( Read more... )