Dear Dr. Banks,

I would like for you to supervise my PhD.

I took Computer Graphics from you last fall and am
currently in your Visualization class.

I double-majored in Math and CS, so my math skills are 
pretty strong.

I attended the ACM SIGGRAPH conference last summer, the 
IEEE Visualization conference last fall, and will attend 
OOPSLA in Tampa next week.

My C++ programming is pretty good, and I've installed
Open Inventor on my linux machine at home.

I am available to work on your Illumination of Isosurfaces
grant (I've written a ray-caster for volume data) or on 
your Brain Imaging project (I've installed FlatKit on my 
machine at home and generated some textures).

I think I'd like to choose a topic in the area of 
photon mapping (like what Jensen does at Stanford -- his
images are amazing), or maybe something where randomness
is the basic process in image synthesis (like what 
Shirley does at Utah).

Please let me know a time when we can talk.