SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Week

8 December 2008

No work today as it's a public holiday. Selamat Hari Raya Haji!


9 December 2008

Met up with Kevin after breakfast to discuss about our plans for this week as Kevin, Ming Hong and Bernard would be busy with SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. We would be working on our presentation slides as well as brainstorm for our new application. Leonard and You Hock would be learning Quartz Composer too.

After the planning, we received the installation disc for iWork and Microsoft Office for Mac so that we could work on our presentation slides. After the installation, we went over to try out the Smartboard to get inspiration for our new application. Here's a picture of what we drew on the Smartboard before going for lunch:


After lunch, we watched videos on Steve Jobs on iTunes because Leonard did not watch it with us the last time. We were told to take note especially on how Steve Jobs present. Here's on of the video we watched:



Passed my Quartz Composer notes to Leonard after watching the video so that he could start picking up Quartz Composer as soon as possible. We then brainstormed for our new application for the rest of the day. Will share what we had brainstormed on our new application to Kevin next week after SIGGRAPH Asia 2008.


10 December 2008

We worked on our presentation slides for the entire day. I decided to use Keynote instead of Microsoft Powerpoint because:

1. I wanted to try out Keynote.


2. I prefer the animations in Keynote to the ones in Microsoft Powerpoint


3. Keynote is not as complex as Microsoft Powerpoint

Had some trouble of getting used to Keynote as it was new to me. However, I managed to adapt to it quickly as it was pretty user-friendly. Here's a sneak peak at my presentation for Monday:



11 December 2008

Attended SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 at Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre. It is the first ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia. There were lots of projects there, mainly animations and visualization. I guess I'll let the pictures do the talking:












12 December 2008

Worked on our presentations for the entire day. I finished doing my presentation slides before lunch and did a dry run of our presentations. After the dry run, I realized that I should prepare a script. Wrote my script and practiced it for a few times before we ended our day.


Reflection for the week:

It had really been an eye-opening experience for me at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, experiencing some of the technologies which I haven't had the slightest idea of. I had learnt quite some stuff about computer graphics such as rendering of 3D models and how NVIDIA® Quadro® is build for providing better rendering in Adobe® Creative Suite® 4.

Presentation-wise, I've chosen to use iWork Keynote to Microsoft Powerpoint. Keynote provides better animation, visual effects and is user-friendly. The animation and visual effects from Keynote would help in my presentation by allowing my listeners to remember what I had presented better.

On a side note, I think I'm becoming more a an Apple fan after using the iMac for almost 2 months. iMac's OS have always kept me amazed. Here's a screenshot of the interface which amazed me:


The UI for Mac is simply good. It's no wonder the UI for Microsoft's latest OS, Windows 7, looks exactly the same as the Mac's UI.