Testing MH mesh with Luxrender.

Thanks to Pablo,  (http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5323&start=70#p63266 ) we are testing the new skin shader of Luxrender.
A first result:

Call for Thesis Announcement

This is a call for thesis announcement for university researchers and students. There are several open developing tasks that requires quite a bit of R&D and we thought it would be nice to have the R&D part to be available as open topics for thesis of interested students who want to develop with us. There is only one catch to this, the resulting work will end up as a GNU-GPL project. Even if the student just develops an algorithm and not the code, the algorithm will be read by the public masses. We in makehuman believe in open source and open access, so we hope that there will be equally minded people who want to pursue research and development with this ideology. Of course it is understood that the intellectual property of the algorithm or the code will belong to the creator of it. The following are some of the suggested topics (just to name a few) that we would be very interested in:

1. Test and develop different skinning algorithms for human poses and skeletal articulation
   
2. Test and develop different isometric deformation algorithms for human posing and skeletal articulation
3. Test and develop different hair interpolation algorithms.

We have partially developed and worked on all these topics and we have cultivated our own scientific and practical experience. But we lack the resource and time to fully develop them as much as we want. Therefore this call for thesis will be ideal for makehuman developers, makehuman community and the students who will get the full credit in developing these ideas. We will be willing to share all our experience that we have thus far gained and we hope that in this way we can create a warm and friendly collaborative work.

For more information please communicate with me:

Thank you!

The Makehuman Developer Team.

PS: For further open discussion you can also see the sticky in the forum here.

New expression system: development and testing.

The full gallery (and updates): http://www.makehuman.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1801
The new expression system will be more flexible and realistic, based on  universal face actions.