on Oct 23rd, 2006
Thesis Work in Taiwan
So. Finally I have started on my final thesis project. It’s been something I have been looking forward to a long time, so its really nice to have it rolling. Actually, at the time of writing, I am more than half-way done with it. It has all gone so fast, the project was started in August and should be completed in the midst of December, but it sometimes feels I started this just recently, and I dont want it to end. Not just yet…
The project is carried out at NCHC in Hsinchu, Taiwan. NCHC stands for National Center of High-Performace Computing and is a Research and Development center that conducts reseach withing various computation-related areas. It’s a really cool place; the basement is home to some really nice supercomputers and in the visualization lab one can like to play around with 3D polaroid glasses and a quite big Tiled Display Wall, driven by 24 projectors and a cluster of 13 servers 
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My topic is related to the display wall as I am working within surface reconstruction. Basically my goal is to find and implement a method that enables reconstruction of 3D models from medical data sets. The application will be used to create models of fly brains, human bodies, cell structures etc. And even though the progress is quite slow, I expect that the result will be quite satisfying, in either case its been a great time conducting this research..