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After the downpour and icy winds of the last couple of days, I was amazed when coming in to St Andrews this morning to be driving through something resembling the Windows XP background. That kind of weather isn't native to this part of the country at all, and therefore the Goldfish Bowl was more of a greenhouse, making listening to the Architecture lecture all the more difficult. I can't really recall anything worthwhile from the lecturer, but I seem to remember some frightening Assembly commands being put up at some point.
Uncharacteristically for a Computer Science class, Multimedia looks like it's going to be pretty hysterical as it's mainly based on groupwork rather than sitting around being talked at. I'm not too thrilled with having to do a group presentation for the first practical, but after that there's a practical on video editing to come. The lecturer has also requested people to present some multimedia projects of their own, and I'm not really sure whether to put forward Crystal Towers or not. Other things that are being done include the madness of some people's iMovies and sixth year projects.
I also have to start thinking about what to do my presentation on at The Burn this year. I was going to do "Prince of Persia in 20 Minutes", including a talk on rotoscoping and video capture techniques as I ran through my immensely self-absorbed speed video, but I don't think that I could fill up the time very effectively, and having a presentation and video running side by side could be awkward. Besides, the quality's terrible and the licence has run out on my video software. It's likely that I'll go with a "Random Numbers" presentation so that I can send everyone to sleep, but I'd rather like to group together with a few people and do a presentation on the Junior Honours Project instead - at least then it would be something worthwhile. My only worry there is that some of the more outgoing (loud) members of the class would undoubtedly feel they could do the presentation more justice.
The project is also coming up - the one that I'm most interested in so far is a method of determining the location of a mobile device via its signal strength and therefore distance from a number of known base stations (keep reading, it gets better, I promise). If a system like that could be made accurate enough, then it's possible that the locations could be uploaded to a central server which could display a floor plan, complete with Marauder's Map-style dots that show people's locations as they move through the building. It sounds interesting, but I was concerned that I had very little experience in networking. The lecturer who set it didn't seem to see this as a problem, though. According to Al, many senior honours projects fail as miserably as the junior honours ones, so there's no worry there.
[Edited because I suddenly became stupid and got all the letters in "justify" wrong so that it read "center".]
Uncharacteristically for a Computer Science class, Multimedia looks like it's going to be pretty hysterical as it's mainly based on groupwork rather than sitting around being talked at. I'm not too thrilled with having to do a group presentation for the first practical, but after that there's a practical on video editing to come. The lecturer has also requested people to present some multimedia projects of their own, and I'm not really sure whether to put forward Crystal Towers or not. Other things that are being done include the madness of some people's iMovies and sixth year projects.
I also have to start thinking about what to do my presentation on at The Burn this year. I was going to do "Prince of Persia in 20 Minutes", including a talk on rotoscoping and video capture techniques as I ran through my immensely self-absorbed speed video, but I don't think that I could fill up the time very effectively, and having a presentation and video running side by side could be awkward. Besides, the quality's terrible and the licence has run out on my video software. It's likely that I'll go with a "Random Numbers" presentation so that I can send everyone to sleep, but I'd rather like to group together with a few people and do a presentation on the Junior Honours Project instead - at least then it would be something worthwhile. My only worry there is that some of the more outgoing (loud) members of the class would undoubtedly feel they could do the presentation more justice.
The project is also coming up - the one that I'm most interested in so far is a method of determining the location of a mobile device via its signal strength and therefore distance from a number of known base stations (keep reading, it gets better, I promise). If a system like that could be made accurate enough, then it's possible that the locations could be uploaded to a central server which could display a floor plan, complete with Marauder's Map-style dots that show people's locations as they move through the building. It sounds interesting, but I was concerned that I had very little experience in networking. The lecturer who set it didn't seem to see this as a problem, though. According to Al, many senior honours projects fail as miserably as the junior honours ones, so there's no worry there.
[Edited because I suddenly became stupid and got all the letters in "justify" wrong so that it read "center".]
