Michael Naimark

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~kostas/omni.html (cameras)

http://panoramas.dk/ (everything site)

http://www.kaidan.com/ (hardware)

http://www.fullview.com/ (simple flat mirror)

http://www.panoguide.com/howto/panoramas/ (howto)

http://panotools.org/ (wiki)

http://www.kekus.com/ (tools)

http://www.edvec.ed.ac.uk/html/projects/panorama/ (history)

http://www.hidef.com/rigs.html#circlevision (history)

http://www.panoscan.com/ (digital slit)

http://residence.aec.at/wegzeit/index2.htm (cool path networks)

http://www.cliffordross.com/R1/R1-BPSpaper.html (big picture summit)

Google “gigapixel”

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For next week’s class, everyone is expected to do pre-production research to move forward to the next step of our two project ideas, and to make brief (5 minute) presentations describing what you’ve found.

Research must be coordinated within each team. This will require both teams to internally agree on delegation - who does what - in order to divvy out tasks. (This is probably best done via internal team email.)

Examples (only examples, yours may differ) of elements that need pre-production research leading to decisions about how to proceed include: blogging, budget, communication with client, experience design, scheduling, technology spec, procurement, and writing.

The presentations are expected to be coordinated within each team as well. Consider this a rehearsal for presenting your project the following week to an outside expert - Perry.

Also - please note - for the moment, I’ll be the liaison with the Aquarium folks, so any questions you have for them, please email to me. This is only to get things started.

Finally - things will shift and morph, but we have to start somewhere. So please do your best to cooperate in the context of the teams.

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Here's from the signup list. Please note we've cut back from 2 to 1 Open Mics per person to concentrate on the Aquarium project. This schedule has enough flexibility that OMs can slide to the following week.

Class 1 (8/23): Introduction, Syllabus v0.9

Class 2 (8/30): project brainstorm 1

Class 3 (9/6): field trip to Long Beach Aquarium (9am-2pm)

Class 4 (9/13): project brainstorm 2

Class 5 (9/20): LOCK DOWN PROJECT(S), VINCE, RICK

Class 6 (9/27): Project pre-production, JESS, DOOX

Class 7 (10/4): (Michael is out) guest project speaker

Class 8 (10/11) - Project pre-production, mid-term review, NOHA, MIHAI

Class 9 (10/18) - Project production 1, JUSTIN, YUECHUAN

Class 10 (10/25) - Project production 2, JOSH, AARON

Class 11 (11/1) - Project production 3, HERB

Class 12 (11/8 - Project production 4

Class 13 (11/15) - SOMETHING TO SHOW

Class 14 (11/22) - Debug and Feedback

Class 15 (11/29) - LAST CLASS

Final (12/13) - TBD

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(20 min) news and misc discussion

(45 min) split into 2 project groups to achieve the following:
- elevator pitch (one-liner)
- timeline and milestones
- team roles

(30 min) report back and compare notes

(15 min) break

(60 min) Open Mic (2)

I'll have a revised Open Mic schedule.

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We now have 2 teams around 2 concepts/venues:

1) Live aquarium cams
- can be stereo, can be robotic/mobile, can have immersive display, can be webcast

2) Multiple checkpoints
- use entire Aquarium as playing field, possibly with card/tokens/RFIDs or tracking

Both venues can involve game components, group interactivity, and humor & entertainment as well as informative value. Ideally, both teams will converge and make a single experience, but this is not essential.

Our job now is to iteratively fill in specifics and get feedback from folks at the Aquarium.

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Hi All,

First the News: Jerry will commit to providing $5,000 for supplies if we are able to converge on a project, or a few projects, that are of direct interest to the Aquarium. He also would expect that at the end of the class the students would make a presentation, or presentations, at the Aquarium of their projects.

Now it's time to put on our (collective) thinking caps. Assignment continued here---v

Our syllabus schedule calls for brainstorming next week and to LOCK DOWN a project or plan by the following week, Sept 20. So let's treat this as a two-step process now.

Assignment for next week:

1) Make a list of the 3-5 most important elements of our potential aquarium project, based on what you now know. These can be along whatever dimensions you wish, but be prepared to name the dimension, e.g., content, technology, interface, environment, etc. The goal is for each of you to decide what you believe is most imporant and to see if we can converge on a project or projects.

2) What should we buy with $5,000? This will be an important real-world "rubber meets road" exercise.

Please be prepared to speak briefly about both. As always, am happy to chat and field Q&As all week.

Also - next week, we begin our Open Mic sessions, with Jess, Vince, and Rick in the bull pen. Ten minute presentations, 20 minute discussions, 30 minute absolute total each. I'll bring in a sign up sheet for the rest of the semester.

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