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Hello, World!

This blog is used to document the progress of a student project in the course Computer Graphics and Interaction (DH2323, Spring 2017) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.

The project team consists of Mikael Forsberg and Robin Gunning, both studying computer science at KTH.

We actually more or less forgot the requirement to blog about our progress. The dates of the first couple of posts here will not be accurate indicators of when we did the work mentioned in the post as we are initially trying to retroactively describe the progress made until now (May 18th).

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