{"id":216,"date":"2021-07-21T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/?p=216"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:42:08","slug":"sgi-the-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/sgi-the-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"SGI: The First Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">July 19th 2021, the long anticipated day that SGI 2021 begins. I woke up nervous and excited. I reviewed the first 4 exercises, ate breakfast and then logged into Zoom from my bedroom in Winchester, VA. I joined the other fellows, professors, and invited guests who all logged in from their respective time zones all over the world. My nervousness faded when <a href=\"https:\/\/odedstein.com\/\">Oded Stein<\/a>, before he began his lecture, said &#8220;If you&#8217;re here, you already fulfill the prerequisites&#8221;. It made me feel at ease and realize that we were all picked to be here for a reason and while some people have different strengths than me, I was chosen and I should be here too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oded Stein began his course on basic techniques in geometry processing by first explaining what geometry processing is. This was very helpful as I could now understand what it is from a few different perspectives as well as have a good answer for when people ask me what I am doing this summer. The course was a great introduction as I had never been introduced to any topics in geometry processing and the exercises helped greatly. My favorite exercise was on Shading and Perspective. I was able to take my new friend Spot the cow and give him multiple makeovers. I changed him from ombre, to blue, to red (my friend who is a ginger specifically asked for this one). I added different lighting and even gave him a shadow. I learned how to change the perspective so his proportions would look more realistic, and take away the axis so there was less distraction.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another thing I really enjoyed was the talk from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dgp.toronto.edu\/~rms\/\">Ryan Schmidt<\/a>, from Epic Games. The part I found particularly interesting in his talk was how geometry processing is used all over, especially in the medical field; to make prosthetics, help doctors 3D print arteries and organs to visualize before surgery, and even dentists use it to scan and model teeth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The First Day was awesome and I can&#8217;t wait to continue to learn and research more in this area in the weeks to come. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 19th 2021, the long anticipated day that SGI 2021 begins. I woke up nervous and excited. I reviewed the first 4 exercises, ate breakfast and then logged into Zoom from my bedroom in Winchester, VA. I joined the other fellows, professors, and invited guests who all logged in from their respective time zones all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-day-1","tag-tutorial-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summergeometry.org\/sgi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}