Computer Graphics and Visualization Colloquium

2013-04-23T13:03:54Z

You are cordially invited to attend our next Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV) Colloquium, which will be held on Thursday April 25 2013, 15:45-17.00 in the Timmanzaal (LB 01.170).

The program is as follows:

* Roland van der Linden, Procedural generation of dungeons

* Ricardo Lopes, Mobile adaptive procedural content generation

* Matthias Holländer, Real-time subdivision surfaces on the GPU

Looking forward to see you all at the colloquium!

Computer Graphics and Visualization Colloquium

2013-04-23T13:20:09Z

You are cordially invited to attend our next Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV) Colloquium, which will be held on Thursday March 21, 2013, 16:30-17.10, in the Vassiliadis Room (HB 10.230, formerly know as Shannon Room…)

The programme (this time, slightly shorter AND starting later) is as follows:

* Timothy Kol, Remote rendering

* Pedro Silva, Node-based shape grammar representation and editing

Looking forward to see you all at the colloquium!

Computer Graphics and Visualization Colloquium

2013-02-12T08:33:47Z

You are cordially invited to attend our next Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV) Colloquium, which will be held on
Thursday February 21 2013, 15:45-17.00 in the new Vassiliadis Room (HB 10.230, formerly know as Shannon Room…)

The programme is as follows:

* Joey van den Heuvel: Procedural ornamentation generation techniques

* Casper van Leeuwen: Spatio-temporal 3D blood flow visualization in the human heart

* Cees-Willem Hofstede: Digital anatomy representations

Looking forward to see you all at the colloquium!

Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV) Colloquium

2013-01-14T08:57:49Z

You are cordially invited to attend our first Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV) Colloquium of 2013, which will be held on Thursday, January 17 at 15:45 in the Shannon Room, on the 10th floor of the EEMCS building.

The programme is as follows:

•  Hugo Meijer: Preprocessing large point-cloud data in the cloud
• Chris van Egmond: Visualizing multiple two-dimensional data fields simultaneously in a single image

Because this is slightly shorter than usually, you are encouraged to make good use of that extra time, e.g. at the (by now traditional) socializing event following our colloquiums.

Computer Graphics Colloquium, December 18, 2012

2012-12-18T09:46:03Z

You are cordially invited to attend the next Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV) Colloquium, which will be held on Tuesday, December 18 at 15:45 in the Lipkenszaal, room LB 01.150 in the EEMCS building.

We are extremely happy to welcome Professor Jim Whitehead of the University of California, Santa Cruz, as our guest speaker.

The title and abstract of his talk are as follows:

Analyzing Level Design: A Genre-Specific Approach

Abstract: Today, level design for computer games is presented as a process of crafting space to achieve a set of high-level qualities, such as pacing, flow, and challenge. This results in a one size fits all approach, with no guidance on precisely how to achieve these qualities in specific game genres. In contrast, we present an approach to level design that is specific to individual game genres. This permits a more detailed analysis that exposes the design idioms common to each genre, and permits level design to be understood in a more concrete way. As examples, the talk will present level analysis of 2d platformers, 2d space shooters (shmups), and 3d first person shooter genres. Use of this genre-specific level design knowledge for procedural content generation is shown in the final part of the talk, which presents the Launchpad system for procedural level design of 2d platformers.

Bio: Jim Whitehead is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he helped create its game program. Prof. Whitehead is also the President of the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Digital Games, which operates the yearlyFoundations of Digital Games (FDG) conference. He has research interests in procedural content generation, level design, application of games to software engineering, and software bugs, especially their prediction. He received his PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2000.