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Algebraic Geometry for Computer Graphics

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Re: Algebraic Geometry for Computer Graphics

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Post by darzu »

raghudotcc wrote: post #2

Are there lecture recordings?

Maybe it should be required that public or publicly funded universities have a set of relatively up-to-date lecture recordings for each course. Since covid, I know for a fact most UW CSE courses were/are being recorded and saved to Canvas CMS for students who miss lecture/have covid/worry about covid/etc. These should be made public!

The hairiest issue here is when there's student participation. But you don't need each quarter to be online, just once every time there are significant course changes. The quarter that will be uploaded could be announced as such and students could consent to being recorded. But this isn't a big deal, MIT has a lot of open courseware with students being recorded. It'd be easy to survey and compare student experiences with/without recordings. But the benefit for the public could be enormous! Think about the public good of every publicly funded university's courseware being accessible online for free.

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Post by timostrating »

raghudotcc wrote: post #2

Are there lecture recordings?

If you are looking for general advanced graphics video lectures then this might help. The lectures at the university of Utrecht (one of the top universities of the Netherlands) are now often recorded and published sinds covid started. There advanced graphics lecture recordings, slides and exercises from last year are published on this website chttp://www.cs.uu.nl/docs/vakken/magr/2021-2022/index.html

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Post by tptacek »

darzu wrote: post #4
raghudotcc wrote: post #2

Are there lecture recordings?

Maybe it should be required that public or publicly funded universities have a set of relatively up-to-date lecture recordings for each course. Since covid, I know for a fact most UW CSE courses were/are being recorded and saved to Canvas CMS for students who miss lecture/have covid/worry about covid/etc. These should be made public! The hairiest issue here is when there's student participation. But you don't need ea…

The majority of the funding in several flagship state universities comes not from the state but from the operations of the university itself: tuition, fees, stores, programs. We the public literally did not pay for all these courses. And the rate on a presentation, speech, or training course, you'll find, is very different when it's delivered to a specific audience versus being put on the Internet for free.

Re: Algebraic Geometry for Computer Graphics

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Post by earleybird »

Absent from his bio (and the wikipedia article) is his role in the construction of the Vegreville Pysanka(egg)[0]

"Robert McDermott and Jim Blinn are jointly responsible for the precise mathematics and computer programming which implemented the geometric concept Accomplishment of the highly sophisticated and complex mathematics brought to a close the long-sought-after geometric definition of the faceted Egg." [1]

Came across this little tidbit of information reading the information plaque when my dad was showing us around town. Imagine my surprise coming across the name of probably my first computer graphics books from university.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegreville_egg

[1] http://www.ronresch.org/ronresch/the-egg/easter-egg-booklet/...

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