I mentioned earlier my intent to contact one of the CG groups here at Caltech. I finally got around to it, much belatedly, and sent off an email to the lead investigator in the Multiresolution Modeling group. I hate the tension and suspense involved with the search for an advisor, but I do appreciate the opportunities it has given me for exercising my informative-persuasive writing skills.

My fingers are crossed: I don’t have any formal experience in CG at all. On the other hand, I’ve always found it an intriguing area– it certainly produces a lot of really interesting papers that involve math of a tasty geometric flavor (cf. my citeulike links, which are 95%+ CG papers)– and I’ve read a lot on raytracing and some global illumination algorithms, so I’m familiar with the basic ideas.

Then there’s always the wildcards of whether the professor can afford to take on any new students, or even wants to.

Possibly relevant posts:

• Another chapter in the advisor search (10/10/2007)
• l₁ Magic (3/16/2006)
• My favorite tuna recipe (2/7/2007)