Important Computer Science skills

[Tony]

I was looking over UW's CS488, Computer Graphics, a 4th's year CS course and one of "big 3" at UW. The outline lists very important skills necessary for one of the most difficult undergraduate CS courses at Waterloo. This list is copied here:

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1.3 Important Skills
? Reading.
? Read the newsgroup.
? Read the course notes.
? Last but not least, read and follow instructions

That is all.

[Sur_real]

wow...they really put the emphasizes on reading huh?

[unoho]

i cud be wrong but..i was going through some of the projects they have as portfolio and it seemed really basic..again..i could definitely be wrong

[Tony]

unoho @ Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:54 pm wrote:

it seemed really basic..again..i could definitely be wrong

Keep in mind that you essentially only get an equivalent of Draw.Dot and build everything else yourself.

[Dan]

Tony @ 8th February 2011, 9:30 pm wrote:

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? Last but not least, read and follow instructions

It's admazing how many students fail at the "follow instructions" part.

[unoho]

Tony @ Wed Feb 09, 2011 2:17 pm wrote:

unoho @ Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:54 pm wrote:

it seemed really basic..again..i could definitely be wrong

Keep in mind that you essentially only get an equivalent of Draw.Dot and build everything else yourself.

oh snapp...i thought they probably get to use tools like 3ds max or maya..

nvm then.. i take back what i said before

[Tony]

From a guy I know who took that course: http://jzila.com/?p=50

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After far too much work and way too many all-nighters, I?m finally closing in on my final scene. As you can see, texturing is working quite nicely. Combined with depth of field and soft shadows, the marble chessboard looks quite realistic. I don?t yet have KD-tree optimizations working, so this took 55 minutes to render on an octal core EC2 instance (7h, 21m, 41s of user time).

[Sur_real]

dam that's nice and it's so smooth...
I probably can't even take a photo as good as that with my camera.