It`s not what you know, it`s who you know

So after a couple of midterms at the UofA im back at looking into this, I have a fresh approach to kick-start things. It seems I`ve been looking to contact the wrong people, or more specifically, ive been taking the wrong route to those I actually need to speak to. As far as computer whiz`s go, physics programmers probably come pretty high up the list, and it just happens to co-incide with the fact that most have managed to whip up a website of sorts (a blog mostly) detailing there steps as professionals and individual developments they make in their programming. They also have an email address (cha-ching!) which goes directly to them, and avoids those admin people who take one look at "university thesis" and immediately associate it any non-commercial enquiry which generally recieves the same bullshit response. So here's a list of people im constructing that may be able to help me. I only wish I had more of a programming background as some of their research papers are deep. Like Mariana trench deep...

Erin Catto - http://www.gphysics.com/ - erincatto@gphysics.com

David Baraff - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~baraff/ - deb@pixar.com

Chris Hecker - http://chrishecker.com/Homepage - checker@d6.com

So I'll hopefully get round to contacting these people soon, and will post information on what they think about my proposal and any professional thoughts they may be able to contribute. I'll also add more people as I go, and eventually this post should be filled with a plethora of useful information that I can piece together to lead me in the next direction with my research. Fingers crossed!