no, this is not a joke, it is for real.  this is my thesis topic :)
 
I'm a masters student in computer graphics at uwaterloo, my general topic
is 3D modelling, and my thesis is revolved around improving a modelling
method (surface pasting) so you can make a better ferret model.
 
anyways, the reason I'm posting is because I just had to do a presentation
on my work (my supervisor is a mean jerk :p).  the slides I used have a
lot of ferret pictures in it, so you guys might get a kick out of it.  it
is a technical presentation, but I have managed to put in no equations at
all, so it might even be understandable.  and if anybody is curious I'll
be happy to explain.
 
here is the link to my presentation
 
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~ssiu/school/presentations/2001_11_24/slide0.html
 
you'll notice there is a tiny link that says "presetation notes".  if you
click on that, it'll have a point form thing of what I intended to talk
about in each slide, which may help if you read it together with the
slide..  if you don't want to flip through the whole set, at least check
out slide 16, and slide 17, which is the response to 16.
 
my presentation was yesterday, my supervisor thought I kind of suck on the
background part, but it wasn't bad once I started about my own work, and
he's pretty impressed with how I demonstrated some points with Dief, who
was helping me out.
 
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// Selina, Birch, Dief, Sprite, Storm, Sand & Bear
// http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~ssiu
[Posted in FML issue 3613]