News
Gail Carmichael Wins SCS TA Award of Excellence
gigl-admin — April 25, 2012 - 6:59pm
Congratulations to Gail Carmichael, who is one of two winners of the SCS TA Award of Excellence!
This award is in recognition of excellence in supporting undergraduate students with their learning experience during the fall/winter 2011-12 terms. The selection committee reviewed all nominations and made a final decision based on the following criteria: teaching skills, quality of communication, inspiration, quality of grading and feedback and other qualities demonstrating commitment to teaching or grading.
GRAND in Montreal, May 2-4, 2012
gigl-admin — April 25, 2012 - 6:53pm
GIGL members will be at GRAND in Montreal, May 2-4. Look for our
posters on Sketch-Based Learning (R. Wasson) and Procedural Texture
(J. Caron), and hear more about the sketch-based learning project in
Tuesday's mashup, "SKETCH Highlights".
New Lab Baby
gigl-admin — January 11, 2012 - 1:50pm
Congratulations to lab member Gail Carmichael on the recent birth of her daughter Molly! Molly was born on December 16 2011, weighing in at 7 lbs 3 oz. Mom, Dad and baby are all doing well.
Hua Li Wins SCS TA Award of Excellence
gigl-admin — December 15, 2011 - 10:51am
Congratulations to Hua Li, who is one of two winners of the SCS TA Award of Excellence!
This award is in recognition of excellence in supporting undergraduate students with their learning experience during the fall/winter 2010-11 terms. The selection committee reviewed all nominations and made a final decision based on the following criteria: teaching skills, quality of communication, inspiration, quality of grading and feedback and other qualities demonstrating commitment to teaching or grading.
GIGL Welcomes New Lab Member
gigl-admin — October 4, 2011 - 2:08pm
Welcome to our newest lab member Lester Mundt. He is pursuing a Masters of Computer Science and will be researching computer graphics and non-photorealistic rendering in particular.
live-wallpaper for Android devices
Jacquelin Caron — July 18, 2011 - 3:31pm
I just finished developing a live-wallpaper for devices running Android 2.2 or more. This live-wallpaper uses some results obtained with my research. For those interested, here's two links on my blog, for the free and paid version, with the QR codes and link to the Android Market.
Free: http://widgg-research.blogspot.com/2011/06/live-wallpaper-available-on-market.html
Paid: http://widgg-research.blogspot.com/2011/07/weird-voronoi-pro.html
I'm looking forward to have some feedbacks on these live-wallpaper and I want to improve them, so send me your suggestion!
Lab Member Contributes to Special Effects in Last Harry Potter Movie
gigl-admin — July 15, 2011 - 3:00pm
Lab member Jamie Madill worked with a team of programmers at local company Exocortex to create the most realistic effects yet for the Pensieve (memory pool) in the last installment of the Harry Potter films. As the Ottawa Citizen reports:
The pool, known as the Pensieve to Harry Potter fans, contains an oillike liquid that sloshes around in its basin whenever someone gazes into it. While they had managed to make do with available tools in previous Harry Potter movies, this time around animators wanted the effects to be bigger, better and more realistic than ever before.
Jamie describes his involvement with the project:
For the Harry Potter contract, we developed a C++ API for the client, GradientFX, that used Exocortex's proprietary gridless fluid solving tech. The solver was made to be extremely fast, parallel, and extendable to work in a render farm with many machines running enormous (100 of millions) particle counts. The shots called for a specific inky smoke look, with the fluid morphing into the shape of moving humans, so we added a shape matching algorithm that worked on a purely local level, so was very scalable.
Be sure to watch for their hard work when you get a chance to catch the movie.
Best Paper Award for Hua Li's Work on Stippled Images
gigl-admin — June 28, 2011 - 9:10am
Hua Li has been awarded the Michael A. J. Sweeney award for her Graphics Interface 2011 conference paper Structure-Preserving Stippling by Priority-based Error Diffusion. This award is given annually to the best two student-authored papers at GI (one for graphics, one for interface). Her work can be described as follows:
This paper presented a novel algorithm for creating stippled images, using a priority-based scheme to enhance image contrast and structural details. Various stylization effects, such as heightening, screening, and scratchboard, were also presented. The paper is notable for the variety and quality of its synthetic images.
Congratulations Hua!
Great Canadian Appathon
gigl-admin — March 15, 2011 - 3:00pm
A group of students and lab members (Jacob Agar, Jamie Madill, Andrew Erdeg, and Gail Carmichael) competed in the Great Canadian Appathon this past weekend. Although we don't know the judging results yet, our team did manage to submit a complete game (not everyone in the competition did!) and are proud of our efforts.
The Financial Post covered the event. The team was mentioned in "GCA: Carleton students strategize how to win big – or at least finish", and Gail was featured in an article called "GCA: Female developers crashing the boys club."
New Website
gigl-admin — January 17, 2011 - 4:44pm
The Graphics, Imaging, and Games Lab is happy to share our brand new website with the world. Hello, world!
