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Graphics and Gaming Group NewsNew Project and New ResearcherFriday , 4th April 2008We have a new researcher on board. Leonie Troy is working on a new project jointly funded by the EU SECASE (Software Engineering CASE studies) initiative and ITB. Leonie will be working on developing educational resources targetted at localisation of mobile gaming applications. More information about the project can be found here. Paper PresentationsWednesday , 30th January 2008Towards the end of 2007 our postgraduate students presented two papers on our ongoing work on Procedural City Generation. George Kelly presented a paper entitled CityGen: An Interactive System for Procedural City Generation at the Fifth International Conference on Computer Game Design and Technology in Liverpool back in November. Just before Christmas, Graham Whelan presented Towards Procedural Generation of Buildings for an Interactive City Generation System at the Eurographics Ireland Chapter Workshop in UCD Research VanancyTuesday , 2nd October 2007We are still inviting applications for a new research post that is available. The researcher will work on the Virtual Cinematography for Driving Applications Situated in Procedurally Generated 3D Environments project, which we recently obtained funding for. The post is for 2 years and the researcher will register for a research M.Sc. as part of the work. A monthly grant is paid and all fees and related expenses are covered. Full information on the post and details about how to apply can be found on the ITB website. The closing date for applications is October 19th. Please note that this is an extended application date and applications we have received already are still valid. ITB Selected for Emergent Academic ProgramMonday , 24th September 2007
SIGGRAPH 2007Monday , 20th August 2007George Kelly and Graham Whelan recently returned from the SIGGRAPH 2007 conference in San Diego where George presented a poster on his procedural city generation work. The poster can be downloaded here. New Research Funding ObtainedMonday , 9th July 2007We are delighted to announce that funding for a new research project has recently been granted. The project will investigate the use of Virtual Cinematography in the context of a procedurally generated urban environment and represents a continuation of various strands of research being carried out here over the last few years. The funding was obtained from the Strand 1 Postgraduate R&D; Skills Programme administered by the Council of Directors of the Institutes of Technology. It will employ one postgraduate researcher for a period of two years and we will be advertising to fill this position in September. Video UploadsTuesday , 15th May 2007
Talk by Peter LynchWednesday , 24th April 2007Peter Lynch, who is CEO of Eirplay Games will be visiting ITB on Tuesday May 1st to give a talk about developing games with Java for mobile devices. It takes place in F025 from 3-4pm and all are welcome to attend. New MemberThursday , 7th December 2006We have another new member of the group. Mark Cummins is a Computing lecturer at ITB who has recently started studying for a Ph.D. under the supervision of Matt Smith. Mark is going be working on the development of serious training games for safety applications. New ResearcherMonday , 27th November 2006We have been joined by a new postgraduate researcher, Graham Whelan. Graham is going to be working on the Automatic Building Generation project. Graham is a physics graduate from Trinity College Dublin and also has several years experience working in the UK games industry. Graphics and Gaming Group at Science Week 2006Wednesday, 16th November 2006The Graphics and Gaming Group are contributing to Science Week this week (15th and 16th November) by providing an interactive showcase of computer graphics and games concepts at the ITB campus. Visiting primary and secondary school students will be able to try out hands-on demos of various computer graphics and game applications. These activities were created by Matt Smith. Full details of Science Week at ITB can be found on the main ITB website. Double GraduationWednesday, 15th November 2006
Virtual Cinematography Project ConcludesFriday, 19th October 2006Our project on virtual cinematography has now concluded. James Kneafsey's thesis describing the work in detail has been submitted and passed and is now available for download from our publications page. Hugh McCabe recently presented a paper describing the results of the project at the Games 2006 Conference in Portugal which you can also access on our publications page. SIGGRAPH 2006Monday, 7th August 2006
Research OpportunityMonday, 19th June 2006
Graphics and Gaming Group at SIGGRAPHFriday, 16th June 2006George Kelly, who works on the Procedural City Generation project, has had a research poster presentation accepted for the SIGGRAPH 2006 conference. This is a great opportunity to discuss and share results on this work with graphics researchers from all around the world. The conference takes place in Boston at the end of July. New Research Funding ObtainedMonday, 29th May 2006We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in obtaining funding for a new research project entitled "Automatic Building Generation for 3D Applications". The funding comes from the Strand 1 postgraduate R&D; skills programme and will allow us to employ another postgraduate researcher for a period of two years. The project is designed to complement the existing project on Procedrual City Generation and we hope that the two together will lead to some exciting and interesting results. We will be looking to recruit a new postgraduate researcher for this very soon. Watch this space! Thank YouWednesday, 22nd March 2006Thanks to everyone who helped us out by turning up at the testing day for the Virtual Cinematography project before Christmas. We got lots of useful results and feedback. James is currently finalising his thesis and it should be available for download here soon. Testing of Virtual CinematographyThursday, 8th December 2005We are looking for volunteers from the ITB staff and student body to help us carry out testing of the new camera system for Quake which our postgrad student, James Kneafsey, has created for the virtual cinematography project. The testing session will take place on Wednesday 14th December between 2 and 4pm. If you think you could spare a half an hour that afternoon please email Hugh. The testing will largely involve getting you to play our modified version of Quake for 20 mintutes or so and blow up as many monsters as possible. What could be easier? Experienced Quake/FPS players and total novices are equally welcome so you've no excuse ... New ResearcherThursday, 8th December 2005We are very pleased to welcome a new researcher to the Graphics and Gaming Group. George Kelly has recently joined us and is going to be working on the Procedural City Generation project for the next two years. Cinematic Quake VideoThursday, 24th November 2005We have just uploaded a short 45 second video showing the Cinematic Quake camera which is currently being built as part of the Virtual Cinematography project. The video shows a segment of Quake gameplay where the standard first-person camera has been replaced with the current implementation of our cinematic camera. The camera automatically chooses different viewpoint and camera angles according to ganeplay events occuring onscreen.. Go here to download it. Science Week Activities14th November 2005The Graphics and Gaming Group are contributing to Science Week this week (14th and 15th November) by providing an interactive showcase of computer graphics and games concepts at the ITB campus. Visiting primary and secondary school students can create their own computer games and view demonstrations of creating artificial gravity for a virtual "ball world", moving around by detecting arrow key presses, and how to make things happen when two "sprites" on screen. These activities were created by Matt Smith. Full details of Science Week at ITB can be found on the main ITB website. 3D Campus Simulation Downloads26th October 2005We have just added some downloads from our 3D campus simulation project. These are a VRML world which allows the user to explore the ITB campus through their web browser and a video segment of a flythrough of our 3D campus model. Go here to look at these materials.. New Undergraduate Graphics and Gaming Projects21st October 2005A number of our B.Sc. in Computing students have undertaken games related research for their final year projects for the 2005/2006 academic year. Some information about these projects can be found on the undergrad projects page. Neural Bot Video Downloads20th October 2005We have just updated the web page for our recently completed project on neural network learning techniques for agents in games. Included are two videos which can be downloaded showing bots controlled by neural networks navigating their way around some game levels. Go here to download the videos and find out more about the project. Procedural City Generation for Computer Games14th September 2005We have recently been awarded funding for a new research project entitled Procedural City Generation for Computer Games. The funding comes from the Strand 1 Postgraduate R&D; Skills Programme and will allow us to employ a new postgraduate researcher for a period of two years. The idea of the project is to develop techniques for automatically generating urban geometry (e.g. streets, buildings and so on) using procedural techniques for use in computer games and other interactive 3D applications. Recruitment of a new researcher is currently underway and we expect the project to formally commence in November. DIGRA Conference Vancouver12th July 2005Members of the group travelled to Vancouver, Canada in late June to attend the Digital Games Research Association conference. Ross Graham and James Kneafsey presented papers describing their work to the conference attendees. Both were extremely well received and we were particularly pleased that Ross's paper, entitled Realistic Agent Movement in Dynamic Game Environments, was chosen by the conference commitee to appear in the Selected Papers volume for the conference. The papers selected for this volume are regarded by the organisers as representing the best games research currently being carried out worldwide. Eurographics Ireland Chapter Workshop20th June 2005The Graphics and Gaming Group recently hosted the sixth Eurographics Ireland Chapter Workshop at ITB. This took place on June 2nd and consisted of a day of paper presentations from researchers around Ireland involved in Computer Graphics. Presenters came from Trinity College Dublin, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, University College Cork, University of Ulster, and Dublin City University. An exciting range of work was described, covering areas such as games research, human figure modeling, 3D graphics for mobile devices, and computer graphics for education. Full workshop details can be found on the EGIreland website. Next years workshop is now scheduled to be held at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. |
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