Earlier tonight, I watched the live broadcast of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies with friends here in the dorm (side note: I am temporarily living in campus which is great). You have to admit, the torch lighting part was impressive in its drama and grandiose-ness.

I met with my professor yesterday. My project is due next week. It was sad that the original objectives will not be met due to time constraints (and the fact that it would probably take at least two students an entire semester to pull off what was intended). I am now left with trying to finish the models and rendering them as photorealistically as possible. On the upside, the professor agreed to give a grade based on the outcome of the model renderings.

I am quite disappointed about this project as I was really looking forward to doing some interesting programming work. I would have to deem this one a failure. (Although not totally because I developed some nifty 3D modeling skillz.) I guess I would have to try to learn 3D programming in my spare time - doable, but there’s less motivation to do so.