Seeing as my school days are over, I decided to put together some of my better school projects. You can see them on the school/resume page. Let me know what you think. I’m a little sad that out of all the classes I took, I’m only proud of four of them. Oh well.
Edit: I’ve added our CS201 final project only because I am proud of the graphics I did for the webpage. The content itself is very boring, and should be avoided at all cost, unless you’re
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Today was graduation day, and I officially got my Masters degree. The ceremony was nice, if not a little, okay a lot, long. It definitely didn’t have the craziness of last year’s graduation, but it was fun and I got to spend some time with good friends. Plus, the orange hood. It’s all about the orange hood. I am still disappointed, though, that our gowns were only rentals this year, as I could have done great things with that orange hood. Like…wear it….
After the ceremony my dad had to leave, but my mom and I went to my cousin’s house for dinner. In honor of my graduation, I actually got to sit at the adults’ table. This is a privilege usually reserved only for those who have kids of their own, but an exception was made for me today.
I don’t think it has quite sunk in yet that I am actually done with school. I’m not sure whether to feel sad, happy, excited, or nervous, so for now I’m sticking with slight optimism, which will slowly morph into panic in the coming weeks. I can’t wait.
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From: Office of the University Registrar [mailto:registrar@stanford.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:49 AM
To: shasha1@stanford.edu
Subject: Congratulations, Your Application to Graduate Has Been Approved
Dear Patricia,
I am pleased to inform you that your application to graduate has been
approved for the MS in Computer Science. You have satisfied all
University and departmental requirements for this degree.
If you have any questions about your degree conferral, please contact the
Office of the University Registrar on Friday, June 13 between 8:00 a.m. and
5:00 p.m. Please note that the Office of the University Registrar will be
closed on Saturday, June 14.
Congratulations on your successful academic career at Stanford University.
With best wishes,
Roger O. Printup
University Registrar
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I am happy to announce that my and Darren’s 348b final project won an Honorable Mention for “Best Post-Production Processing.” I think they were referring to the 7-step rendering/compositing process we went through to produce our final image. Who knew I would get my only graphics-related prize in college for a huge hack? Anyway, I am now the proud new owner of an ILM hat for my efforts.
Mariel also bought me a spiffy new cordless keyboard (I think she was tired of banging the “R” key on my old keyboard) and I bought myself the Buffy season 4 DVDs. All in all a quite successful day.
I’ve also been reading a lot about sugar gliders because someone on su.market (our campus newgroup for buying/selling stuff) is giving a couple of them away. The idea of having a pet that will sleep in my pocket is very very appealing to me, but unfortunately they are illegal to keep in California. Stupid California.
Edit: Forgot to say that I am done with schoolwork FOREVER! Wooooo!
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Finished final project: Rendering Realistic Night Skies.
So tired.
The word “pontookie” spontaneously popped into my head as I was coding. I Googled it, and it came up with no results, so I’m declaring that I’ve invented the word.
Pontookie!!!
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Nothing much has been happening lately since I’ve tried to buckle down and do some actual work.
I’m pretty pleased with the way our project is going, and hopefully we’ll be able to squeeze in a couple more features before the demo on Tuesday.
Without further ado, here are some cool pictures. Again, click on the thumbnail to get the full-size version.
Moon and stars
Moon and stars on a hazy night
And what I consider to be the best image we’ve produced so far:
Wallpaper of moon and stars closeup
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For those who are observant (or bored,) you might have noticed a link to the left to the assignment description of my CS348b final project. I thought some of you (and by “some of you” I mean Buddy) might be interested in what wacky hijinks I have planned for this final project. You can read about it in our project proposal, but the basic idea is that we want to render realistic night skies. We found a really neat paper by graphics god and former Stanford researcher Henrik Wann Jensen about rendering night skies. His system incorporates physical data about the the planets, sun, and moon to render incredible images of the night sky. I will be working with Darren on the project, and our final image will hopefully be a nicely-rendered full moon behind Hoover Tower. I’ve modeled a simple Hoover Tower in Maya, which will hopefully suffice. So keep an eye on this page for (hopefully) progress on this project.
I’m starting out by working on the atmospheric haze by simulating light transport through participating media. Woo.
Edit: For those of you not familiar with it, Hoover Tower is a tower on the Stanford Campus. Go here for some photographs of it.
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Two classes down, one to go! We had our 348a demo on Thursday, which I think went pretty well. And tonight Brendan and I submitted our 223b final project, admittedly 45 minutes late. Check it out: Creating High Framerate Video from Low Framerate Video.
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Wooohoo! Brendan and I just submitted our CS223b project, 5 minutes before it was due! Check out our neat writeup of our image mosaics.
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I was RCC in a dorm for 1 year and 1 summer a couple of years ago. I did my best to be involved-staff-person-girl, being enthusiastic and supportive of our much-too-large staff and dorm. This usually involved trying to get people to go to the various dorm events. Usually I had a reasonable amount of success, but every once in a while, there were those couple of people who just refused to do anything, if they even acknowledged your existence. You would go into their room and try to be excited but not to a frightening level, but no amout of bribery, threat, or sweet-talking would get them to budge. I would leave their room, disappointed at their lack of enthusiasm for contrived dorm unity. Fast forward to a couple of days ago. I was throwing away another flier for a Rains events when it hit me: I’m that person! I’m the person who doesn’t go to any events, who throws away fliers, and who doesn’t answer when the CAs knock on the door (true story.) When did this happen? When did I become so apathetic?
Probably about the time when I STOPPED CARING. HAHAHA!
Anyway…
I spent the greater part of last night in stinky, stinky Sweet Hall working on an EE282 problem set, and the greater part of today working on a CS242 problem set. The good news is, I only have one more assignment left before finals. Woo and hoo.
Finally, I took the survey at Find Your Spot, which is supposed to tell me the place I should live. My results are:
1) Seattle, WA
2) Colorado Spring, CO
3) Denver, CO
4) Salt Lake City, UT (Please no)
5) Cincinatti, OH
6) Tulsa, OK
7) Loveland, CO
8) Grand Junction, CO
9) Provo-Orem, UT (huh??)
10) Boise, ID (Ugh)
11) Carlisle, PA
12) Kent, WA
13) Fort Collins, CO
14) Bremerton, WA
15) Idaho Falls, ID
16) Tacoma, WA
17) Norfolk, VA
18) St Louis, MO
19) Bellingham, WA
20) Asheville, NC
21) Charlotte, NC
22) Long Island, NY
23) Louisville, KY
24) Richmond, VA
Not exactly what I was expecting… Apparently it really really wants me to live in Colorado. All I said was that I like snow!! Is that so wrong???
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