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- To: anneh@eecs.mit.edu
- Subject: Seeking For-Credit Course VI UROP(s)
- From: Seth Teller <teller@csail.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 08:51:48 -0500
- Organization: MIT CS & AI Laboratory
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[anne -- please forward to VI'ers. thanks -- seth.]
Seeking For-Credit Course VI UROP(s) for Procedural Generation Of Architectural CAD Models for Apps Including Route-Planning and Active Signage
Hundreds of detailed 2D CAD floorplans are posted by MIT at http://floorplans.mit.edu/SearchPDF.Asp . We are writ- ing a geometric "compiler" to parse this data, extrude it into 3D, and produce a "well-formed" 3D geometric model of every campus space, along with space-type and adjacency information.
This rich spatial database will support several new appli- cations for use by the MIT community, including mapping, route-planning (for walking and rolling routes), active signage (signs that display information in its spatial context), better space usage, evacuation planning etc.
We're looking for one or two students (juniors or seniors, 6-2's or 6-3's) to join the graphics group as for-credit UROPs. Candidates should have some design and coding ex- perience in C++ and/or Java. Graphics and geometric mod- eling experience, either from 6.837 or independent work, would be useful as well.
A successful spring-term UROP could lead to a paid summer UROP, and/or to for-credit or paid MEng RAships.
For more information see http://city.csail.mit.edu/bmg, see the MEng theses by Bell (2003) and Nichols (2004) posted at http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/publications.html, and/or contact Michael Craig, mic@graphics.csail.mit.edu .
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