[4eyes] [cvc] Visual Computing Cafe Seminar Friday Jan. 10, 2014

[Pradeep Sen]

Sorry typo:  correct room is Phelps 3526.  Sorry for all the back and forth.    

-P

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Pradeep Sen
Associate Professor
UCSB MIRAGE Lab
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 91306-9560

> On Jan 10, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Pradeep Sen <psen at ece.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We were just told by CS that the room for this talk has been moved to Phelps 3536.   See you there!
> 
> -Pradeep
> 
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> Pradeep Sen
> Associate Professor
> UCSB MIRAGE Lab
> Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> Santa Barbara, CA 91306-9560
> 
>> On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Pradeep Sen <psen at ece.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> UCSB Visual Computing Café Seminar Friday January 10, 2014
>> 12:30pm - 1:30pm, Phelps 1401
>>          ** Note change of venue! **
>> 
>> 
>> TITLE:
>> Brute Force: The Future of Visual Effects
>> by Nafees Bin Zafar, DreamWorks Animation
>> 
>> 
>> ABSTRACT:
>> 
>> The bleeding edge of visual effects is always about
>> cheats and tricks. New effects are created for largely
>> unknown requirements, and under impractical time
>> constraints. So we use a lot of cheats. Then we get
>> asked to do it again, and the real trouble starts.
>> Historically these shortcuts have given way to more
>> correct, and brute force algorithms.
>> 
>> My talk is going to cover some state of the art techniques
>> from recent films for creating cloudscapes, and destroying
>> cities (It's all the rage!). I will discuss how noise
>> functions are used to create volumes, how we fake global
>> illumination effects in clouds, and how we model elasticity
>> with rigid bodies. We'll look at some effects that worked
>> well, and others that didn't. Finally I'll try to convince
>> you that the answer to these problems lies in brute force
>> algorithms.
>> 
>> 
>> BIO:
>> 
>> Nafees Bin Zafar is a Principal Engineer at DreamWorks
>> Animation. He has worked on a long list of blockbuster
>> films over the last 13 years, such as the Pirates of
>> the Caribbean, Kung Fu Panda, and Transformers franchises.
>> Nafees won an Academy Award in 2008 for his work on
>> pioneering digital fluid effects now used throughout
>> the visual effects industry.  His expertise ranges
>> across volumetric modeling and rendering, image processing,
>> and dynamics simulation systems.  He is an active contributor
>> to leading academic conferences, and serves on the committee
>> that confers Academy Awards for technical contributions to
>> the film industry.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Pradeep Sen
>> Associate Professor
>> UCSB MIRAGE Lab
>> Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560
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