Siggraph 2012 google calendars

Here we go again…

To add to your google calendars, cut and paste the blah@group.calendar.google.com address for the calendar into the “Add a friend’s calendar” box in the “Other calendars” list on the left side of the google calendar page.

Let me know if you see any errors.  The schedule can change, and I endeavor to update these when I see changes.  Also there don’t appear to be any room assignments for Birds of a Feather sessions yet; I’ll update the calendar if I get this information.

  • Courses
    4suceenkrqc6j5keokle3fjlg8@group.calendar.google.com
      
  • Papers
    20pnmfuah7jr9gqnimq891r1k4@group.calendar.google.com
      
  • Talks (including Panels)
    89rd0sopbcp9efnuh3sf2n5j0s@group.calendar.google.com
      
  • Special Events
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  • Birds of a Feather
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Working with Karotz

A few months ago after seeing a friend’s Nabaztag I eventually ordered a Karotz, it’s spiritual successor.  Alas it arrived the same day as my new piano so it sat ignored for a couple of months.  Then last week I figured having dropped $200 on it I should get it to do something more useful than playing french internet radio.  So here it is telling me when the bus is coming (something I otherwise have to open up the laptop for):

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Thoughts on CityCampSF

Today I went to CityCampSF, an unconference focused on innovation on local issues.  This is the first time I’ve been to an ‘unconference’, although I’d really wanted to go to TransportationCamp but for some reason couldn’t make it.

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Siggraph 2011 google calendars

Here it is—this year’s Siggraph schedule in handy calendar format!

To add to your google calendars, cut and paste the blah@group.calendar.google.com address for the calendar into the “Add a friend’s calendar” box in the “Other calendars” list on the left side of the google calendar page.

Let me know if you see any errors.  The schedule can change, and I endeavor to update these when I see changes.  Also there don’t appear to be any room assignments for Birds of a Feather sessions yet; I’ll update the calendar if I get this information.

  • Courses
    4of3kkklmktjdp2q265564051o@group.calendar.google.com
  • Papers
    h56bvn41esnc27as13f9dosgs4@group.calendar.google.com
  • Talks (including Panels)
    hua89dv3lah5km1d157q24u0r4@group.calendar.google.com
  • Special Events
    f1ql8qlkit7jrem2usgk1svreg@group.calendar.google.com
  • Birds of a Feather
    19r973gn72aunblaem6c2tgc6c@group.calendar.google.com

SIGGRAPH 2010 google calendars

Back by popular demand!

To add to your google calendars, cut and paste the blah@group.calendar.google.com address for the calendar into the “Add a friend’s calendar” box in the “Other calendars” list on the left side of the google calendar page.

  • Courses
    e1980aphrhr0ifb1qitoh4hmu0@group.calendar.google.com
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  • Panels
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    XML iCal HTML
  • Papers (Previews from Ke-Sen Huang)
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    XML iCal HTML
  • Talks
    8afrj4lpp7lg027cppibus5rg0@group.calendar.google.com
    XML iCal HTML
  • Special events
    o0129tkgslt07rvl3drcbn9s6s@group.calendar.google.com
    XML iCal HTML
  • Birds of a Feather
    sbj0roal68qi3tu11humgrn8ro@group.calendar.google.com

Any errors or something to be added?  Mail me at c.j.wills@acm.org


Comparing 160-bit hash values with SSE

I’m writing this up as it’s one of those things I was trying to do and thought I’d just be able to crib how to do it from the Internet yet a good amount of googleing turned up nothing.  So here it it for anyone else looking for the same thing.

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Siggraph 2009 google calendars

Update: The calendars are offline.  Trying to clear up my google calendar list I inadvertently deleted them, but Siggraph was over a month ago anyway.
To add to your google calendars, cut and paste the blah@group.calendar.google.com address for the calendar into the “Add a friend’s calendar” box in the “Other calendars” list on the left side of the google calendar page.
  • Courses
    hvujkn0sbt7jhtirbg948htv18@group.calendar.google.com
  • Panels
    fkufpr69okdkoeghfpon1gf3ts@group.calendar.google.com
  • Papers (Previews from Ke-Sen Huang)
    bjem1niro4scd9f983ithrc0j8@group.calendar.google.com
  • Talks
    l802o82pfvrpdqeq51611i8e98@group.calendar.google.com
  • Special events
    u68gj6c9b7cqumpt4vqu4u2560@group.calendar.google.com
  • Parties!
    11aadmb8iiqj93ka0guk111lag@group.calendar.google.com

If you notice anything wrong or missing – and especially if you have leads on parties, which seem rather thin on the ground so far – email me at c.j.wills@acm.org


Projection mapping Arthur’s Seat

Here’s something fun I found while clearing out the hard drives on my old pc—my undergraduate graphics project.  Basically it involved projection mapping photographs of Arthur’s Seat (a big hill in Edinburgh) onto a model created from map contours.  Here’s a couple of videos:

Looks like shit, huh?  But it was a big deal for an undergraduate in 1997 ;)

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My first plugin

My first vfx job was with Smoke & Mirrors in London—I use the word ‘job’ in the loosest sense, as they were actually part-sponsoring my doctorate and part of the deal was that they had to employ me for three months over the three years (it was actually more complicated than that, involving a subsidiary that went bust, but that’s a story for another day).

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Siggraph sketch that never happened

Back in 2003, I submitted a sketch to Siggraph on my thesis work.  I had been working at Framestore for a few months, was waiting for the University to organise my viva and figured that if I got something accepted I might have a fighting chance of getting someone else to pay my airfare to San Diego.

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