Groggy start, but went to Architecture just fine. I apparently didn’t miss all that much last week since we’re still going over the theory section, pretty much all of which I know from doing Computer Graphics and in some cases a lot more detail, as is the case with 3D Photography right now. After that I went to 3D Photography, which was a guest lecture by Wolfgang Heinrichs from the University of British Columbia, just up the road in Vancouver. It was a pretty interesting talk about how to capture the geometries of ‘difficult cases’, which in this instance meant deformable objects like cloth and transparent materials like glass. I’m finding a lot of this stuff interesting from a curiosity point of view, but I can’t say that I would want to delve into it as an area of research.

After that I went back to my office and did a bunch of email and admin stuff, organising what I was going to be doing. From there I went to a rather long meeting with Brian, in which I finally sorted out what I’m going to be actually doing for my research. Now I just need to expedite putting together a proposal report (which apparently is ultimately just for my edification) outlining what I’m doing and when I’m doing it. For those of you that are interested, I’m going to be putting together some useful visualisations of the accuracy of algorithm-generated 3D models against ground truth models during the rest of the quarter. Next quarter I’m hopefully going to be generating some more datasets (which while isn’t actually contributing research is still contributing to the research community) and creating a fast algorithm for 3D model comparisons. The current comparison algorithms are accurate, but really slow.

After that I went with Suporn to her office to pick up the Camera and fisheye lens which I need to use for my 3D Photography class, and talked to her for a little while about some of the challenges that we need to work on. I then went back to my office and did a little more admin – paid my GST for the last period, which was like $500…. ouch. I really need to convince everyone I subcontract to register for GST so I can actually claim some of the money I’m paying them back. None of my expenses here are tax-deductible because they don’t have New Zealand GST on them. Bah.

After that I ran across campus (literally) to Balmer hall, where I sat in on a discussion session on entrepreneurship. That was really interesting to listen to the discussion with a couple of local entrepreneurs, hear their stories of what they do, how they got started, what they think is important, that kind of thing. Really it was a lot of things that echoed what I had heard from other presentations, but what I found really interesting was due to their different backgrounds, they definitely disagreed on some things for their own personal situations.

After that I swung by the HUB and picked up some sushi, then went back to my office and tried to do some work. I ended up doing a lot of emails, a little bit of reading (the technical kind, that is), putting together the shell for my proposal in LyX and pretty much doing no solid work on my assignments, which was frustrating. I eventually took a range of images with the camera of my office to get used to the system – I’ll process them tomorrow and take the rest of the pictures.

I went back to my apartment, started my washing going, then cooked up the remainder of my BBQ beans and had them as the second part of my dinner (the first being the sushi) while I watched an episode of The Law of Ueki, which has certainly been entertaining me of late. It has some nice themes about justice, being good and helpful to other people, that kind of thing. I switched my washing over into the dryer and worked on understanding and putting in some code into my Vision assignment, which I’m finding fairly challenging right now. I don’t think I have enough mathematics coming in to a lot of these courses, and it’s really showing. >_<

After that I got my washing out of the dryer and went to bed.