Sabina Siddiqi's weekly internship reports

Weekly schedule
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 May 2002
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S   
   20 21 22 23 24 25        Week 1  Get feet wet
26 27 28 29 30 31           Week 2  paper presentations(L1/L2)

   June 2002
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S   
                   1        
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8        Week 3  paper presentations(L3/L4)
 9 10 11 12 13 14 15        Week 4  Work on Detailed Geometry Model 
16 17 18 19 20 21 22        Week 5  paper presentations(L1/L2) 
                                    Models done / Code done
                                    Schedule subjects
23 24 25 26 27 28 29        Week 6  paper presentations(L3/L4) 
                                    Run Experiments
30

   July 2002
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S   
    1  2  3  4  5  6        Week 7  Run Experiments / Present results
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13        Week 8  Finish Experiments/ Analyze data / Write
14 15 16 17 18 19           Week 9  Finish writing paper
 
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- Week 1 - 2 sparse hallway test
  - Create 20m sparse hallway section
  - Dump out file to wrl
- Week 2 - 4 Complex Geometry hallway
  - Create some number of complex 20m hallway sections
  - Dump out file to wrl
  Once done with the major project work, start exploring other areas of interest in virtual reality.
  - Week 1
  - Week 2
  - Week 3
  - Week 4
  - Week 5
  - Week 6
  - Week 7
  - Week 8
  Weekly reports of summer at the U of U:
  First week - May 20th- 24th
  First day:
  - Was experimented on
  - Got overview of the project and a tour of the department
  Second day:
  - Learnt to manipulate polygons in Maya. played around with various features.
  Produced an image of a door:
  
  and a hammer:
  
  (images coming soon :))
  - Attended talk presented by Professor Bill Thompson
  Third day:
  - Continued experimenting with maya features
  - Started working on sparse hallway (progress can be accessed on justice/ssiddiqi/maya)
  - Started reading paper to be presented by Bill Thompson next day
  
  Fourth day:
  - Continued experimenting with maya features
  - Continued working on sparse hallway (progress can be accessed on justice/ssiddiqi/maya)
  - Attended two paper presentations by Bill Thompson
  - Tried out the treadmill :)
  
  Fifth day:
  - Continued experimenting with maya features
  - Continued working on sparse hallway (progress can be accessed on justice/ssiddiqi/maya)
  
  Second week - May 27th- 31st
  
  - Designed and fixed various errors in sparse hallway. Here's a snapshot:
  
  - Attended talks presented by Larissa and Nausheen
  - Started working on sparse hallway (progress can be accessed on justice/ssiddiqi/maya)
  - Started reading papers for my presentation
  
  Third week - June 3rd-7th
  
  - Monday June 3rd presented article: "Eye Height Scaling of Absolute Size in Immersive and Nonimmersive Displays" by Dixon, Wraga et al from the University of Virginia
  - Completed one Complex hallway
  - Working on fixing wall textures in second complex hallway
  - Output Maya files for WTK
  
  Fourth week - June 10th-14th
  
  - Completed three complex hallways
  - Fixed wall textures and various other issues (z-fighting etc)
  - Output Maya files for WTK
  - Screenshots of three complex hallways:
  
  Fifth week - June 17th-21st
  
  - Ran the hallways on the treadport and found out that the frame rate is too small
  - Lowered the polygon count on the three complex hallways and reran on the treadport
  - Fixed wall textures and various other issues (z-fighting etc) - had to remove waterfountain and back faces of objects to lower polygon count
  - Output Maya files for WTK
  - conference proceedings
  
  Sixth week - June 24th-28th
  
  - Attended ITR summit with professors and graduate students from University of Minnesota, Vanderbilt, Augsburg and Mt Holyoke.
  - Presented the chapter on pictorial space perception on Wednesday with Scott
  - Changed hallways according to suggestions obtained at the summit
  
  Complex2 - revised:
  
  Complex3 - revised:
  
  - Read up on and contacted professors about their research
  Seventh week - July 1st-5th
  
  - Finished off all hallways
  - Looked through different papers to see what paper to present
  - Attended Bill Thompson talks on grad school and proposals
  - Read up on and contacted professors about their research/grad school etc/
  
  Eighth week - July 8th-12th
  
  - Final touches to hallways
  - 10 meter hallway
  - Paper presentation
  - Started working on final presentation
  
  Plan for next week - July 15th-19th
  - Final Presentation on Thursday
  - Study for grad school/GRE/thesis stuff
  - Read up on and contact professors about their research
  - Any little projects that need to be done
  
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