DMS 424/524: Some possible presentation topics

Tech

• ODE, or other physics engine
• Ray tracing
• Radiosity
• Motion capture
• GPGPU
• Graftals / L-Systems
• OpenAL
• Video interaction (like Videoplace / EyeToy / Kinect / OpenCV)
• WiiMote
• Artificial evolution
• Volume visualization
• Shadows
• Advance texturing - multi-texturing, etc
• Interesting shaders, such as bump-mapping
• Immersive virtual environments (CAVEs, head-mounted displays)
• Networking tools

Artists

• Myron Krueger
• Maurice Benayoun
• Karl Sims
• Jeffrey Shaw
• Monika Fleischmann
• Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
• David Rokeby
• Brenda Laurel
• Masaki Fujihata
• Toshio Iwai
• John Whitney, Sr.
• Charles Csuri
• David Em
• Dan Sandin
• Yoichiro Kawaguchi
• Peter Molyneux
• Will Wright
• Paul Sermon
• Cory Arcangel
• Scott Snibbe
• Michael Naimark
• Sheldon Brown
• Merce Cunningham (specifically work with digital tools)