When you prepare to write a paper

                 By Professor Kun Zhou(http://kunzhou.net/ )

Keep three points on your mind:

1．A real problem, a good story

2．Novel effects

3. or high performance (10×)

Trick #1: fill in the blanks

◎Not blanks in one paper, but blanks in all relatedpapers

◎Look for blanks

□Read through papers

□Draw tables/charts and look for the trend/blanks

◎Fill in blanks

□Need “technical” contributions

Trick #2: me too

◎Same method, another problem

□Poisson image editing (sig03) VS Poisson mesh editing (sig04)

◎Same problem, another method

□Multi-resolution animation editing (sig06)VS Gradient domain animation editing (sig07)

Trick #3 Learn from industry

Trick #4 Think “unprofessionally”

◎Curiosity is the key

□Frequently ask “why”and “how”

Trick #5: imagination

◎Try some crazy ideas

□Just for fun

Trick #6: build systems

◎One stone, many birds

Trick #7: put all together

◎Impact

□Academic impact（siggraph）

□Industry impact

Summary

◎Understand problems in your area

□Rendering,modeling, animation, texturing, simulation, GPU, 3D printing…

□Paper reading,implementation

◎Think over these problems

□Anytime,anywhere, anyway

Note: This notes was concluded from a talk given by Professor Kun Zhou at Zhejiang University.