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What’s up
Monday
MSC CAMERA COMMITTEE: will 1 mid a slide presentation I
and print exhibition at 7 p.m. in Rudder Tower. Ched
monitor for room.
TAMU BIKE CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
STUDENT Y - AGGIE FRIENDS: will meet at 7 p.m.in30
Rudder.
INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: will hold a
meeting for basketball and soccer officials at 6 p.m. ini
Read.
INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entries open j
for outdoor soccer, basketball and pre-season basketballai |
8 a.m. in 159 Read.
FRESHMAN CLASS COUNCIL: entries for the Class of’?
T-shirt design contest may be submitted to 216 MSI
through today.
FRESHMAN CLASS COUNCIL: applications for committee
chairmen are available through today in 216 MSC.
Tuesday
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: will present a panel dis
cussion concerning the “dual-career marriage" at 5 p.m.ii
402 Rudder.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS:
Captain Winzeler will discuss “Engineers in the Military"at I
7 p.m. in 103 Zachry.
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: Frank Viola will present a prograin|
on the Philippines and the Caribbean at 7 p.m. in 401
der.
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SOCIETY: will meet at 11
p.m. in 161 Blocker.
AGGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: willmed]
at 8:30 p.m. in 274 Read.
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: will meet at i |
p.m. in 201 VMS.
TEXAS STUDENT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: will
meet at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder.
ABILENE HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 6:30 p.m.<
the Flying Tomato.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS: an yonc with information concern-:
ing a copy machine removed from 22 1 MSC ontheeve]
ning of Nov. 18 is requested to call the University 1'
Department at 845-2345.
FISH CAMP: applications for Fish Camp ’87 co-chairmen art |
available in 213 Pavilion.
A&M LITERARY ARTS CLUB: is now accepting submit
sions for Litmus.
DEPARTMENT OF M ATHFM ATICS: students interested I
in taking actuarial examinations in February shoul(lcoD-j
tact Dr. H. E. Lacey, head of the Department of Mathemai-
ics, in 102 Milner.
Items for What's Up should he submitted to The Battalion, I
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working dim
prior to desired publication date.
A&M grad studen
creates animatio
using computers
By Larry Keller Jr.
Reporter
Michelle Mercer uses the power of
a computer for her cinematic pro
ductions.
The Texas A&M graduate stu
dent from Houston is working in the
growing field of computer anima
tion. Mercer, 22, received her un
dergraduate degree in computer sc i-
ence from A&M in 1985.
She is currently working on two
animated movies: one for the Me
morial Student Center’s Aggie Cin
ema and one for her graduate pro
ject.
Mercer says tfie movie for Aggie
Cinema uses the organization’s logo.
She says the completed film will be
shown before all of the films the
group brings to campus.
Mercer says that the funding for
both of her films comes from Aggie
Cinema and the Center for Continu
ing Education.
The second film, her graduate
project, is about a robot named Her
bert who Hies around in an old-fash
ioned biplane. “Herbert" is about 2
inches tall and has squares and rect
angles for his arms and legs. He flies
his biplane in a land of many 3-D
shapes ranging from blocks to igloo
shaped structures.
Mercer says that working on the
project has taken much of her f ree
time.
“Last fall 1 worked 20 hours a
week,” she says.
The steps in making a computer-
animated film are not that different
From those in regular animation,
Mercer says. She explains that she
creates and saves the image on die
computer, and then takes a picture
with a camera connected to the com
puter.
She says that although ther
will he only about 20 seconds 1
she's not discouraged witlH
amount of ef fort it has required. I
Mercer says computer animai
has some advantages over rej-J
animation. She explains
computer animation a person a
save an image on the computerl
recall that image for use at anq
time.
“It’s a lot less tedious to [
computer to redraw a picturetknj
is to draw things by hand," she sal
She says that when she fmif
her graduate studies she woi
to continue working in the I
computer animation.
“I’d like to work foroneofj
computer graphics companies!
C ialifoi ilia,” she says.
Mercer says that Lucas I
Wall Disney are two companiest!
use computer animation in ^
movie productions.
Although “Herbert” maynoiiej
extravagant as some Disney I
Mercer says she’s put a greatdf
time into her film and isdeterm
to finish it.
‘Tin stubborn enough tof
tie,” she says. “I love compii^
they’re my best f riends.”
“The only difference is the com
puter,” she says.
Mercer says other students in
volved in the project are Anne
Thomas, David Shores, Joe DeGi-
rolmo, and Eric Nelson.
“We ran into a ton of problems
learning the new software,” Mercer
says. “We had to go through and
write a lot of the routines to actually
move the object.”
She uses the WYLBUR system
and some of the subroutines are
written in the computer language
FORTRAN.
“The movie itself lias several dif
ferent subroutines that are all about
2,000 to 3,000 lines long,” Mercer
says.
InAdvam
MSC Council
prepares for
'87 elections
The Memorial Student
Council will hold its last reg 11
. meeting of the semester!
at 7 p.m. in MSC 216-T.
The council will be j
for nominations for its nextp^
dent, who will take over in ^
Interviewing for the
gins early in the spring senifi 1
Appointments to the cottii (
nominating committee willM
nounced Monday.
The council also will hear*]
ports on its Town Hall com 1 '
tee’s Nov. 21 concert from W
ip
.
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TV
dy’s in DeWare Field HousM
MBA/Law Committee’s K,nt '
Law Day, and development f
mittee leadership programs
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