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Abstract
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- Talk Notes, 23.05.06
Introduction
I’m Neal Ellis, and this morning I’ll be talking to you about the Honours research I’m doing this year, on the application of Romanticism to …
Thanks to Maria for letting me know about a fantastic paper by Casey Alt from Stanford University, on Alias|Wavefront’s Maya software and how artists & designers interact with …
I’ve been preparing my notes for an upcoming presentation on my honours research, which has had the function of forcing me to sum up my work in a …
Well, it’s certainly been a test for my brian to sort out precisely what my thesis and project will be about; it’s not as easy as coming up …
An interesting experiment in aggregating RSS news feeds into a sort of online visual representation of stories and what’s recieving the most coverage:
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
A similar but less detailed and …