This robot looks angry and believe me, he will destroy everything!  I made this animation using Maya 8.5.

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" IV.    CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK

4.1. Conlusions

Scientific illustration has proven to be an effective means to represent the important scientific data. Illustrations take advantage of human visual acuity and can represent large amount of information in a relatively succinct manner. Due to the fact that the scientific illustration are greatly demanded across various industrial domains and its strong educational and communicative ability are well recognised, scientists have explored various possibilities to make the computer generated illustration more effective and accurate in the past 10 years. The selected 3 papers have provided three different approaches been carried out in this research area. The three approaches, PEL, suggestive contours, and stipple rendering , have been proven to be effective NPR techniques for scientific illustration.

Looking at the PEL techinique, it does not support for real-time interaction. The processing speed is mainly affected by the expensive calculation of iso-surface extraction. In order to make PEL achieve real time interatcion, study on calculating PEL from volumetric datasets directly should be carried out, instead of using iso-surface extraction approach.

Greater robustness is required in computing suggestive contours in object space. Objects without concavities have no suggestive contours.Ridges may be useful to overcome the problem. Suggestive Contours techniques can be applied in Dynamic Scene. The Paper[22] has provided one possibility of the suggestive contour can be developed in the future.

The stippling system has limited interactivity. Hence the interactivity can be furthur improved. Since the current system is using volumne based rendering, experiment on applying point-based rendering can be done in the future to explore the possibility to improve the effectiveness of the performance.

4.2. Some other NPR applications and future work

Papers covered in this survey are mainly focusing on implementing application for the 3D scientific illustration. Bare in mind that NPR technique actually has a broader meaning and use. Thoughts on NPR should not only limited on 3D scientific illustraction.
There are also applications created for simulating traditional artistic media such as watercolor and ink painting. Painterly rendering is one hot research topic. Through out all these various techniques, even though the topics can be on automatic process of producing “art” or “paintings”, I think most

importantly we need to note that most of the techniques are not candidates for true artificial creativity (intelligence). Hence, future work on studying artifical creativity and to combine it with the NPR technique to achieve real automatic process of producing art can also be carried out. "

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The download link of my survey:

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/yang0074/NPRSurvey.rar

 Canon AE-1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/badmonday/sets/72157607411598443/

2. Vintage Rangefinder work

 XA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/badmonday/sets/72157606846932666/

3. Digital camera work

 Ricoh GRD: http://www.flickr.com/photos/badmonday/sets/72157606846961644/

4. My LOMOgraphy

 FishEye2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/badmonday/sets/72157606846950938/

 Holga: http://www.flickr.com/photos/badmonday/sets/72157606885502163/

The design concept and details are listed in below:

1. The Interface Design Detail:

Figure 1: The multi-function alarm clock front-view

1.1.    Design Concept
1.1.1 Simplicity: Simple is the best. My design is to let the alarm clock to be able to fit into any environment any place in a room. No strange shape is constructed. The color is white and light grey which gives a clean and simple impression.

1.1.2 No bottons trendy look: The big screen in the front view is a touch screen. All functions can be configured through the touch screen. CD player,Cassette tape player, radio, and alarm clock, if you see them seperately, there is nothing much new. So when we combine them all together, the design of the product need to give user something fresh.Hence, I picked touch screen as the interface.Through this interface, User is playing cd/tape/radio through a non-conventional way

1.1.3 Hide the CD/Cassette Tape from the side: CD and Cassette tape are to be inserted from the rightside of the box. If you don't take a closer look, you won’t notice that it is a CD and Cassette tape player easily. I believe that a good design is to bring user surprises and to give user something unexpected from details.

1.1.4 Intelligent: The alarm clock displays information and instructions to user. It detects user incorrect action and gives advice through the touch screen.

1.1.5 No tag: Everyday our life is taged with all the brands. From the things you wear, the things you use, and even yourself is tagged with a name. Are all the tags good enough to identify an individual from the rest? Are you getting sick of your been tagged life ? Hence, base on this concept, there is no any brand tag been marked on this product.

2 Interface details:
2.1 The touch screen interface design:
There is a touch botton on the touch screen “power”. When it is off, the alarm clock is just a clock. It saves power and it is environment friendly. The screen looks much simplier than all the functions been turned on. figure 2 shows how the screen looks like when “power” is off , and figure 3 shows how it looks like when “power” is on.

 
Figure 2: The touch screen when cd/tape/radio power are off. The alarm clock is simply a clock.

Figure 3: When touch on “Power” icon, cd/tape/radio menu appears and then user can choose to play cd/tape/radio

2.2 Consideration for all levels of users:
Instructions, warnning, sound track information etc. are displayed on the screen. It helps all levels of user to control the alarm clock through an easy way. Examples are shown in Figure 4.
 

Figure 4: Consideration for all levels of users.

The source code and executable file can be downloaded here:

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/yang0074/MengdiAlarmClockFile.rar

Game Title: Burger Master

Game goal: To correctly make as many burgers as possible in given time

Game basic scenario: Customer arrives at counter. His/her desired burger (target burger) is visually displayed, i.e. one layer of tomato, one layer of meat and one layer of cheese. Player need to press a sequence of mobile phone keys to make this burger, i.e. key 1 places a layer of tomato, key 2 places a layer of meat, key 3 places a layer of cheese. In this case, player need to press key sequence 1, 2 and 3 to correctly make this target burger.

Game Levels: Easy (Maximum 4 layers), Normal (5 to 8 layers), Hard (Super burger, 8 to 12 layers).

Game number of players: Targeting for single player only.

Team:  Wang Mengdi (leader) - Intra-team coordinator. Programmer A
            Nie Yajuan - Information Gathering/Spy, Programmer B
            Li Tiangong - Graphic Designer, Programmer C

Welcome Screen:

Play screen:

score screen:

Game Play Detail:

- Level Selection.
- Random target burger arrives.
- User pick the right layer to make the burger in a fixed given time.
- After time is up, score is shown and user can choose to play again or exit game.

The source code can be downloaded from here :

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/yang0074/BurgerMaster.rar

1. Display 3D object in wireframe/flat shaing/smooth shading mode

2. Move the 3D object, Rotate 3D object

3. Option to select projection mode: Perspective and Othogonal

4. Option to switch on/Off OpenGL lighting

5. Option to swith on Normal display

Here is some screen capture of my mesh viewer.

- without OpenGL lighting

- Wireframe mode

- With OpenGL lighting

- Display Object normal

The source code and the mesh viewercan be dowloaded from

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/yang0074/MeshViewer.rar

Working Experience
SingTel, Information System Group, Dec 2005 – Jun 2008
System Analyst, OPOM Production support team, Nov 2006 – Jun 2008
•    BAU 39 release manager
     Coordinated total  7 teams to work out the software release plan and schedule
     Consolidated defect, config change lists, created software promotion action plan
     Established the knowledge sharing sessions and technical hand over meetings
     Ensured the SWP completed smoothly for all the environments
•    Level 3 production batch job support
     Maintained effective communication and interaction with business and L2 supports
     Investigate system error and answer enquires and provides work around solutions
     Solved production urgent issues during off office hours, on weekends and holidays
     Proactively discovered system defects and possible enhancements
•    System bug-fixes
     Design, write, test, and hand-over batch jobs when requirements come in from business
     Fixing the bug and conduct unit test, system test in assigned testing environments
     Support UAT through release cycle to ensure fixes in high quality
•    ITM migration weekend over-night support
     Maintained smooth and effective communication between various parties involved.
     Investigated and resolved urgent issues quickly and logged down issues accurately

System Analyst, Testing Team, MM project, Dec 2005 – Oct 2006
•    The system test phase
     Plan and generate test conditions/scripts  by reviewing CD and DD documentations
     Committed to work on off office hours/ over-night/weekends to meet project deadline
     Communicate and coordinate testing among various parties to speed up testing
     Proactively discovered two serious production bug during system test
•    The UAT, data migration and external system test phase
     Environment shakedown for BES and EAI, OP error investigation, hot-fix bugs discovered
     Successfully retriggered over 500 work orders
     Prevented thousands of WO being wrongly migrated by pointed out a migration config error
     Created automated program to archive and clear up server/batch job logs

Technical Skills
•    Programming skills:
     Good at C++, Java, SQL, Ksh scripts, python, Open GL, Open CV
•    Software skills: 
     Good at UNIX, MS Visual Studio C++, JBuilder, Borland Enterprise Server, Vitria Business ware, Microsoft office; Familiar with Maya and Photoshop

Language skills
•    Fluent  in both English and Mandarin,  spoken and written

Hobbies
•    Photography, Gaming, Reading, Travelling

This video is made by Maya 8.5 nCloth component. This 30-second video has 4 scenes:

1. Welcome flag

2. Thick curtain open/close

3. Thin curtain open/close

4. Ball-curtain collision test

5. Thanks and bye