Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

News in Brief 45 (From left) Mr. Donald Tsang, Chief Executive, Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, Prof. Xu Yangsheng, and Prof. Yam Yeung New System for Fast Design and Production of Chinese-style Computer Games O n 3 November, the University announ- ced the development of an Intelligent mni-directional Hybrid Electric Vehicle, an environment-friendly car of the next generation that will help to clean up our sky. The project was led by Prof. Xu Yangsheng, professor of automation and computer-aided engineering. The project was made possible by the support of the Research CUHK Develops Environmentally Friendly Automobiles Prof. K.C. Hui (right 2), Mr. Vincent Yeung (right 1) and members of the Curvair team Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) and collaboration among the parties involved includingCUHK, the government, industry and research units in Hong Kong and the Mainland. One of the industrial partners sponsoring the project, Shanghai Maple Automobile Co. Ltd., plans to produce the Hybrid Electric Vehicle in about two years’ time. T he Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering announced the completion of an advanced 3D game development system named Curvair. One major breakthrough introduced by Curvair is the use of Curve-Pair Based Axial Representation developed by Prof. K.C. Hui from the department. The project has received funding support from China Game Publishers’ Association (Hong Kong), Gameone Online Entertainment Group Limited, and the Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF). The Hong Kong Productivity Council and Digital Entertainment Industry Support Centre (ISC) also help to promote Curvair to local industry.