Week 8

8 Dec

Happy Hari Raya Haji!!

9 Dec

Met up with Kevin after breakfast to discuss about the plans this week as Bernard, Ming Hong and him will be busy handling stuff at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. Wilson and Ryan will be working on the transparent white board and for Leonard and I with start picking up Quartz Composer and join in to work with the white board after we "mastered" Quartz Composer. We will also be working with our presentation slides which we had to present the following Monday.

After that we were told to install Office for Mac and Keynote to do our presentation. Initially, I wanted to use Office for Mac to do my slides, however, there seems to have some problems with the serial key and hence, I used Keynotes for my presentation. 

Well, Keynotes seems to be much easier to use as compared to powerpoint. Animations can easily be done using the Inspector and the User Interface can be understood easily. I could imagine the moment when I actually spent so much time training on the use of powerpoint for WorldSkills. 

Just before lunch, we actually went into one of the meeting rooms to play with the smartboard to get a better understanding on how we should develop our next application

After lunch, we watched a video on a talk given by Steve Jobs and also the keynotes given by Steve job during MacWorld 2007. After that, I took the Quartz Composer guide from Wilson so that we could start picking up. We also discussed on the new application that we are going to develop.

10 Dec

Since Kevin and Ming Hong at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, four of us started working on the slides for the presentation on the upcoming Monday. Using of the keynotes is not that difficult as we initially thought. However, we had quite a hard time thinking of the content and the flow to talk about.

11 Dec

Went down to Suntec City Convention Hall early in the morning to attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. It was the very first time SIGGRAPH had its conference in Asia

A*star Booths
Optical Tone - Dynamic Color Composition
This machine tracks where you're looking!

Stack! Online Image Rendering

Umbrella with heroic sound effects?

 

12 Dec

NS Medical Checkup. Checked with the guys what they have done. I hope I did not missed out much.

Reflections:

This week, I learnt about the use of Apple Keynotes. Functions like how to do simple animations, sounds inside keynotes. I also had gained some new exposures at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. I had learnt quite a bit of image rendering stuff for example, 2D image to 3D images in Photoshop Cs4, and also some wacky ideas that the japanese had came up with.