About Me
Ryan R BlandTexas A&M University
C108 Langford Center
3137 TAMU
imp at viz dot tamu dot edu
About Me
Howdy, I'm an Nth year graduate student at Texas A&M University. I have an undergraduate degree in design and I'm no pursuing a Master's in Visualization Sciences. My plan is to graduate next summer and pursue my professional goals. I love the challenges and variety that permeate the field of computer graphics. Somedays I find that I must play the artist, other days the scientist, but most days I get to be both.
I also am working for a small web studio here
in town called Net Perspective. My work is primarily in Flash and ActionScript,
but it can range (depending on what is needed) into PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS as well as design work in software packages like
Maya, Photoshop, Encore, After Effects and many others. I like this job not only because I get to do what I love, but also because
I'm costantly learning new tools and tricks as well as how to work as part of a team on real projects with real clients and
very real deadlines.
During this fall '08 semester I'm taking 3 courses. Computer Vision is being taught by Dr Dezhen Song in the Computer Science department. It is a useful course for those of you that are just dying to understand the nitty gritty of the mathematics behind projective transformations. I also have thesis hours this semester with Dr Vinod Srinivasan. I'll be spending my time keeping the sister site to this one updated, coming up with game ideas, writing a proposal, and learning some new software. Finally I have a 685 directed study also with Dr Vinod. The purpose of the class is to learn about 3D game design and programming. The tools I am using are C# and XNA all developered in Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express IDE package. My goal for the class is to create the Space Station Sim game with as much of the gameplay implemented as possible.