Graphical Interlude

So, I've spent the better part of the past three days doing marking and marking-related activities for the graphics course I've been TAing this term. Monday and Tuesday were marking projects (which included demos by the students) and Wednesday was proctoring and marking the final.

First, the projects. There were some very good projects, but also some, shall we say, not so good projects. Kinda felt sorry for some of the students who, for whatever reason, weren't able to finish their projects and obviously felt bad about it - then, of course, there were some students who didn't seem to care much as long as they passed the course. Ah well.

For the final - well, I've mentioned proctoring before and this was just as boring as all my previous proctoring experiences. Marking the exams went significantly faster since the prof who's teaching the course this term seems fond of making exams that are easy to mark.

In related news, here is the final version of the image for the course t-shirt:

All of the interesting puppets from assignment three are positioned on an 8x8 grid of tetris pieces (the background colours are, supposedly, the official tetris colours according to wikipedia). Since sixteen pieces fit in an 8x8 grid and there were only fifteen puppets, I snuck in my evil snowman from my raytracer scene in the last piece. The four leftmost images along the bottom are raytracer scenes (the middle two being from students who didn't make a fancy puppet) and the images along the right side are project screen shots. The top, middle and bottom projects were raytracers with the other two being openGL projects.

There is a full-size version of the image (4500x4500 pixels) available here.

Freak Out,
-TFitC