Armin Samii

Hello. I am Armin. To your right is a picture of me.

This site is intended to be a non-professional, interactive version of my CV. Hopefully you find the many colors pleasing.

I will try to keep this site somewhat up to date. In case I don't, I'll note the last update: 27 Aug 2011.

Sometimes I take pictures. My philosophy: Everything looks better with a rainbow in it. Unfortunately, because I don't have this guy's luck, the only rainbows I can provide are photoshopped.

Body:
Nikon D80 (Previously D60, pictured to the right)

Lenses:
Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 (kit lens)
Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6 (kit lens)
Nikkor 50mm f/1.4

Flickr

• 7 Keys to Baldpate
  Props/Run Crew
  Scripps Ranch High School, Fall 2008
  Though I was a part of the props crew, I followed lighting designer to gain second-hand knowledge.
• Bye Bye Birdie
  Assistant Lighting Designer/Master Electrician/Board Operator
  Scripps Ranch High School, Winter 2009
  (Cuesheet )
• Scripps Ranch Talent Show
  Lighting Designer/Master Electrician/Board Operator
  Scripps Ranch High School, Spring 2009
  The most creative allowance I've had on a show. Various acts on youtube (see related videos by same uploader).
  (Cuesheet )
• Metamorphoses
  Associate Lighting Designer/Board Operator
  San Diego Honor's Theater, Spring 2009
  After my first role as designer in the Talent Show, the Honor's Theater asked me to co-design Metamorphoses.
  (Cuesheet )
• The Laramie Project
  Lighting Designer/Master Electrician/Board Operator
  Scripps Ranch High School, Spring 2009
  (Cuesheet )
• Scripps Ranch Dance Show
  Lighting Designer/Master Electrician/Board Operator
  Scripps Ranch High School, Spring 2009
  (Cuesheet )
• Scripps Ranch Fashion Show
  Lighting Designer/Master Electrician/Board Operator
  Scripps Ranch High School, Spring 2009
• I'm Not Rappaport
  Lighting Crew (and Scene Construction)
  Scripps Ranch Community Theatre, Summer 2009
• Mixed Nutz
  Followspot Operator
  University of California, Santa Cruz, Fall 2009
• Odyssey
  Assistant Lighting Designer
  University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring 2010
  My first university experience with "real" Lighting Design, under the guidance of Designer Becca Van de Vanter.
  (Cuesheet )
• Hair
  Followspot Operator
  University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring 2010
• Social Security
  Lighting Crew (and Scene Construction)
  Scripps Ranch Community Theatre, Summer 2010
• Random with a Purpose
  Assistant Lighting Designer
  University of California, Santa Cruz, Winter 2010
  Assisted in making the plot; in charge of technical aspects of VectorWorks; designed two dances.
• Chautauqua
  Co-Head Lighting Designer
  University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring 2011
  A student festival of plays. Created the plot for nine diverse shows and trained new designers to light the stage.

So I'm a Computer Scientist, right? Why all the art? Excuse it. Here are some technical works.

• Image Sorter
  A research project aimed at technically and aesthetically classifying images. It's purpose is to automatically detect poor photos in a large set, saving the photographer the time of throwing out images that are unworkable (blurry, underexposed, etc) when there are better photos of the same scene.
  (Outdated) Project Web Page • UCSC Technical Report
• Garden Path
  Assisting Bruce Bridgeman in his research on human visual perception. Used OpenGL to render a flickering image aligned with screen refresh rates. With the right chroma/luminosity combination, humans will see a non-flickering strip of the image. The location of this strip, coined the Garden Path, is important to Bruce's research. Comes with a GUI to adjust flicker rate and color.
  Project Web Page

Vocabulary Quizzer
Designed to help me personally on the GRE Verbal Exam. Unfortunately, I spent too much time creating this application and not enough memorizing information which ETS believes to be an indicator of intelligence. (See: Howard Gardner)
Application Web Page

Email address: samii@eecs (on berkeley.edu domain)

I'm a computer science graduate student in the Graphics group at the UC Berkeley working with Brian Barsky as my advisor. I will be working on image aesthetics (similar to the Image Sorter project in the previous tab). I completed my undergrad at UC Santa Cruz, working with James Davis as my advisor.

My full name is Kevin Armin Samii. As you may have guessed, I go by Armin. I was born in San Diego, went to undergrad in Santa Cruz, and currently reside in Berkeley. (That's all California!) My hobbies, aside from what is listed here, range from riding bikes to saving money at CVS and spending money on slick deals. Above is my cat. I've posted her picture strictly for professional reasons.

I have this other website. It hasn't been updated in years and the layout is beginning to look like it was designed in the 18th century, but there are still a few regular users. You can go play with that if you like, it has a few cool online-image-manipulation features.