The School hosted a Game Jam event organised by Norfolk Indie Game Developers. Participants of the event worked tirelessly from 10:00-17:00 on each day to create a novel game. A variety of different technologies were employed including Flash, GameMaker, C# and C++. 

One of the exhibits include a video of CMP’s Professor Andrew Bangham.

Professor Bangham's video interview centred on how to grow shapes from the patterns generated by the reaction-diffusion equations proposed by Alan Turing in 1953.

The movie below show a surface that is being patterned by a reaction-diffusion equation. To create shapes, the UEA/JIC group devised a conceptual framework for understanding biological shapes develop and produced software to implement it. Here the concentration of a reactant (red spots) and its gradient are used to control the growth rate and direction from pattern that is constantly changing due to reaction-diffusion.

The group validated the approach by modelling, for the first time, the development of a complex organ namely a snapdragon flower.

For more information visit PLOS biology

The movie below is a computer model of the growth of a snapdragon flower.

To put the project into a biological context see the you tube movie.

Professor Graham Finlayson has been awarded a fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society.

The Royal Photographic Society awarded Professor Graham Finlayson a fellowship to recognise his world-leading contribution to imaging science and his wider service to the research community.

Prof. Finlayson said " It is a great honour to be elected as a fellow and to be recognized by one's peers. My research at UEA meshes very well with the interests of the RPS's Image Science Group."(from p. 9 Broadview magazine)

Dr. Michal Mackiewicz was awarded the Best Interactive Paper by the Society for Imaging and Technology

Dr. Michal Mackiewicz, senior researcher at the School of Computing Sciences together with his co-authors from the Newcastle University and ENSEIRB (France) received the award from the Society for Imaging Science and Technology for the best interactive paper at the 12th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision. The title of his paper is “Skin chromaticity gamuts for illumination recovery”. The conference was held at the University of Amsterdam, on the 6th-9th May 2012.

SYS Consulting, the consultancy arm of CMP, offer an in-house 3D printing facility which can be used to create solid objects from a digital image. The team have the expertise to laser scan objects and create robust digital models which can then be used for 3D printing.

For further details visit 3D facilities printing offer

To discuss an idea for a 3D model contact Dr Stephen Laycock