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- From: scd@cs.brown.edu (Steven C. Dollins)
- Subject: Re: Question about CG education
- In-Reply-To: walver@kielo.uta.fi's message of 15 Dec 92 05:09:15 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:40:45 GMT
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- In article <WALVER.92Dec15070915@kielo.uta.fi> walver@kielo.uta.fi (Ville V. Walveranta) writes:
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- Aren't there any schools that use *real* graphics workstations
- (I'm talking about undergraduate programs)in teaching and labs?
-
- At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Donna Cox teaches a
- two semester animation course in the Renaissance Education Lab, a lab
- of 20 or so Silicon Graphics Personal Irises. The lab is run by the
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications and is used for
- courses in Engineering, Physics, Math, CS, and the Arts.
-
- Every single college that offers a programs in computer
- graphics/animation seems to have PCs or MACs in the labs.
-
- As someone else said, they're afordable. Big machines are usually
- funded through research grants or gifted by the companies who will
- hope to get product level research out of them in return.
-
- The best programs I've found so far are offered by RISD (even
- though their program is more conventional and thus is not
- concentrated on computer based animation in any way).
-
- Brown University has a large graphics lab in the Computer Science
- department which works in part with RISD. I'm a first year Ph.D.
- here, so I'm not sure of all the ties. If you are more interested in
- the art aspect of animation, I would recommend talking to RISD about
- working through our lab. On the other hand, if you can hack the CS
- part, much of the research in the lab is geared towards the user
- interface aspects of creating computer animation.
-
- -- Willy
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