So far in class we have worked on two projects that dealt with rendering images, so I thought I would look a little deeper into the computer animation revolution we have seen in the film making industry over the past thirty or so years.
A Brief Film History
Computer generated imagery (CGI) was first used in the […]

We have just begun talking about matrix computations and linear algebra, but one of the largest topics in this field has to be eigenvectors and there use in the “real world.” With the ever growing interest in artificial intelligence, one of the leading fields of research is in computer vision. Beginning in 1987, […]

No, not from the Matrix.
A NEO is a “near-Earth object” that poses a potential danger to the Earth in the form of an asteroid, comet, or large meteor. Similar to the first root finding story that Professor James discussed, scientists and mathematicians spend countless hours protecting us from otherwise unseen […]