What makes an undergraduate student a good candidate for research?

At SIGGRAPH 2004, we held a BOF on Computer Graphics Research for Undergraduates, at which we worked on a series of White Papers. (You can contribute to these White Papers at http://cs.wcsu.edu/phpwiki?CGResearch)

The question this posting asks is: What are the attributes, the qualities, the skills an undergraduate student needs to have before undertaking original research? Hopefully you'll come up with a good list of attributes, which we can add to the White Papers.

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