Harrison – Day 11
- Yesterday afternoon we had our first course in Blender. The course style was completely different than previous courses. We learned about Blender’s interface and some of the various tools we could use. Our task was then to create a cat from a sphere using our limited knowledge of the program. I tried my best to make my image look ok but even with a lot of trial and error I could not figure out how to make a decent cat. I put a picture of my “cat” below because when I become a Blender expert I have to remember how far I have come.
- Today, we had some time in the morning for individual work. I am reading our Mentor’s lit review paper for his study. His lit review has honestly been interesting to read because he goes into a lot of detail about previous works and this paper about curiosity is starting to inspire more of my own curiosity about the project. In my free time, I plan on reading many of the interesting articles he sites to go more in depth on some parts of the research I am more unfamiliar with.
- As far as scheduled programming today, we had a talk from Adam, one of the grad students, about HCI. This was actually pretty interesting. I enjoyed learning about the history of computers and learning about some of his experiences from conferences he attended. Shortly afterwards, we had an interesting lecture from Dr. Carmen Gomes about her research. It was interesting because it was completely different than anyone else who came in. Her research was in the field of food science and combining her engineering skills to solve some problems in the food industry. Though this talk was a bit difficult to follow at times because of my limited knowledge of engineering and food science, I enjoyed hearing about her project and the progress she has made.
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