Brief Bio
Fedkiw received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA in 1996 and did postdoctoral studies both at UCLA in Mathematics and at Caltech in Aeronautics before joining the Stanford Computer Science Department. He was awarded an Academy Award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Science Award for Initiatives in Research,
a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a Sloan Research Fellowship,
the ACM Siggraph Significant New Researcher Award,
an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award (ONR YIP), the Okawa Foundation Research Grant, the Robert Bosch Faculty Scholarship, the Robert N. Noyce Family Faculty Scholarship, two distinguished teaching awards, etc.
Currently he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Scientific Computing,
and he participates in the reviewing process of a number of journals and funding agencies.
He has published over 80 research papers in computational physics, computer graphics and vision, as well as a book on level set methods.
For the past seven years, he has been a consultant with Industrial Light + Magic. He received screen credits for his work on "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines", "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith", "Poseidon" and "Evan Almighty".
Research
My research is focused on the design of new computational algorithms for a variety of applications including computational
fluid dynamics and solid mechanics, computer graphics, computer vision and computational biomechanics.
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Practical Animation of Compressible Flow for Shock Waves and Related Phenomena (with Nipun Kwatra and Jón Grétarsson).
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A Novel Algorithm for Incompressible Flow Using Only a Coarse Grid Projection (with Michael Lentine and Wen Zheng).
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Simulating virtual soft bodied creatures with actuated internal rigid skeletal structures (with Tamar Shinar and Craig Schroeder).
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Two-way coupling of rigid and deformable solids (with Tamar Shinar and Craig Schroeder).
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Stable, two-way solid fluid coupling (with Avi Robinson-Mosher, Tamar Shinar, Jon Su and Jón Grétarsson).
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Hair simulation (with Andrew Selle and Michael Lentine).
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Highly detailed cloth simulation (with Andrew Selle, Jon Su and Geoffrey Irving).
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Two way coupled SPH and particle level set fluid simulation (with Frank Losasso, Jerry Talton and Nipun Kwatra).
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Hybrid simulation of embedded deformable solids and rigid bodies (with Eftychios Sifakis, Tamar Shinar and Geoffrey Irving).
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Arbitrary cutting of tetrahedral meshes (with Eftychios Sifakis and Kevin Der).
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Fire with cellular patterns (with Jeong-Mo Hong and Tamar Shinar).
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Incompressible solids (with Geoffrey Irving and Craig Schroeder).
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Fracturing rigid bodies (with Josh Bao, Jeong-Mo Hong and Joey Teran).
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Thin shell rigid bodies (with Josh Bao, Jeong-Mo Hong and Joey Teran).
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Multiple Interacting Liquids (with Frank Losasso, Tamar Shinar and Andrew Selle).
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Mixing fully 3D water with 2D height field techniques (with Geoffrey Irving, Eran Guendelman and Frank Losasso).
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Articulated rigid body simulations (with Rachel Weinstein and Joey Teran).
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Melting and burning Lagrangian based solids into Eulerian based fluids (with Frank Losasso, Geoffrey Irving and Eran Guendelman).
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Robust invertible quasistatic simulations for skinning (with Joey Teran, Eftychios Sifakis and Geoffrey Irving).
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Automatic estimation of facial muscle activations from sparse motion capture marker data (with Eftychios Sifakis and Igor Neverov).
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We're currently building a higher resolution facial model (with Eftychios Sifakis and xyzrgb).
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Two-way solid fluid coupling with thin rigid and deformable solids (with Eran Guendelman, Andrew Selle and Frank Losasso).
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Fluid simulations using a Lagrangian vortex particle method hybridized with an Eulerian grid based solver (with Andrew Selle and Nick Rasmussen).
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Animations of muscles constructed from the NIH visible human data set (with Joseph Teran, Eftychios Sifakis and Cynthia Lau).
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Robust finite element simulation, even for degenerate and inverted elements (with Geoffrey Irving and Joey Teran).
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Simulations of changing mesh topology during simulation (with Neil Molino and Zhaosheng Bao).
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Simulations on an octree data structure (with Frank Losasso and Frederic Gibou).
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Animations of rigid bodies (with Eran Guendelman and Robert Bridson).
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Tetrahedral mesh generation (with Neil Molino, Robert Bridson and Joseph Teran).
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Animations of thin shells with non-flat rest angles (with Robert Bridson). The hollow Buddha on the left uses a weak bending model
and collapses similar to a deflated balloon. In the animation on the right, this is compared to a Buddha with stronger bending forces
that retains its shape similar to a water bottle.
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Animations of cloth (with Robert Bridson and John Anderson).
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Animations of fire (with Duc Nguyen and Henrik Jensen).
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Animations of water (with Doug Enright and Steve Marschner).
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Animations of water (with Doug Enright, Willi Geiger and Industrial Light + Magic).
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Animations of water (with Nick Foster).
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Animations of smoke (with Jos Stam and Henrik Jensen).
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Animation of fire (with David Wasson and Ari Sachter-Zeltzer).
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Interpolation of unorganized data points, including hole filling for missing or damaged data,
with a level set shrink wrapping algorithm (with Hongkai Zhao and Stanley Osher).
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The new Particle Level Set Method cures area/accuracy loss for Level Set Methods
(with Doug Enright, Joel Ferziger and Ian Mitchell).
Animation of a rotating slotted sphere with the Level Set Method (left)
and Particle Level Set Method (right).
Animation of a volume preserving flow with the Level Set Method (left)
and Particle Level Set Method (right).
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This animation uses the Ghost Fluid Method (co-invented with Tariq Aslam)
and the Level Set Method (coinvented by Stanley Osher and James Sethian)
to simulate an air shock deforming a helium bubble.
MANTASUIT
The goal is to design an underwater diving suit that provides a diver with an exoskeleton for enhanced locomotion,
as well as augmented reality enhancements for underwater vision and directional sound detection.
Concept art by Wilson Tang.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Scientific and Technical Awards
- Since 1930/31 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has conducted a program for honoring the artisans whose contributions have made it possible for an industry known as "The Movies" to exist. Recognition of ingenuity, efficiency and economy toward achieving the end result is the basic purpose of the Scientific and Technical Awards.
National Academy of Sciences
NAS Award for Initiatives in Research
- awarded to recognize innovative young scientists and to encourage research likely to lead toward new capabilities for human benefit. The award is to be given to a citizen of the United States, preferably no older than 35 years of age. The field of presentation rotates among the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics.
The David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Fellowships for Science and Engineering
- The Foundation has a long-standing interest in strengthening both university-based research and graduate education.
Each year, they generously(!) select 20 Fellows to receive individual grants of $625,000 over five years.
The Fellowship Program was established in 1988.
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
PECASE
- I went to the White House for the PECASE awards ceremony
(thank you Wen & ONR!) which included a wonderful speech by President George W. Bush.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Sloan Research Fellowships
- Currently a total of 116 fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics.
ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH Awards Program
- The ACM SIGGRAPH Awards program recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the computer graphics community through their research, teaching, service, or writing.
The Okawa Foundation
The Okawa Foundation Research Grant
- The Foundation was established in 1986 as an authorized non-profit organization to promote the growth and development of the information and telecommunications fields, through donations from the late Mr. Isao Okawa.
Publications
Computational Physics...
- Lentine, M., Grétarsson, J. and Fedkiw, R.,
"An Unconditionally Stable Fully Conservative Semi-Lagrangian Method",
J. Comp. Phys. (In review).
- Grétarsson, J., Kwatra, N. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Numerically Stable Fluid-Structure Interactions Between Compressible Flow and Solid Structures",
J. Comp. Phys. (In review).
- Robinson-Mosher, A., Schroeder, C. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A symmetric positive definite formulation for monolithic fluid structure interaction",
J. Comp. Phys. (In review).
- Kwatra, N., Su, J., Grétarsson, J. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A Method for Avoiding the Acoustic Time-Step Restriction in Compressible Flow",
J. Comp. Phys. 228, 4146-4161 (2009).
- Selle, A., Fedkiw, R., Kim, B.-M., Liu, Y. and Rossignac, J.,
"An Unconditionally Stable MacCormack Method",
J. Sci. Comput. 35, 350-371 (2008).
- Hong, J.-M., Shinar, T., Kang, M. and Fedkiw, R.,
"On Boundary Condition Capturing for Multiphase Interfaces",
J. Sci. Comput. 31, 99-125 (2007).
- Losasso, F., Fedkiw, R. and Osher,
"Spatially Adaptive Techniques for Level Set Methods and Incompressible Flow",
Computers and Fluids 35, 995-1010 (2006).
- Bridson, R., Teran, J., Molino, N. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Adaptive Physics Based Tetrahedral Mesh Generation Using Level Sets",
Engineering with Computers 21, 2-18 (2005).
- Enright, D., Losasso, F. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A Fast and Accurate Semi-Lagrangian Particle Level Set Method",
Computers and Structures 83, 479-490 (2005).
- Gibou, F. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A Fourth Order Accurate Discretization for the Laplace and Heat Equations on Arbitrary Domains, with Applications to the Stefan Problem",
J. Comput. Phys. 202, 577-601 (2005).
- Molino, N., Bridson, R., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A Crystalline, Red Green Strategy for Meshing Highly Deformable Objects with Tetrahedra",
12th Int. Meshing Roundtable, 103-114, 2003.
- Enright, D., Nguyen, D., Gibou, F. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Using the Particle Level Set Method and a Second Order Accurate Pressure Boundary Condition for Free Surface Flows",
Proc. of the 4th ASME-JSME Joint Fluids Eng. Conf., FEDSM2003-45144, edited by M. Kawahashi and A. Ogut and Y. Tsuji, pp. 1-6, Honolulu, HI 2003.
- Enright, D. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Robust Treatment of Interfaces for Fluid Flow and Computer Graphics",
Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications, edited by T. Hou and E. Tadmor, pp. 153-164, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003.
- Nguyen, D., Gibou, F. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A Fully Conservative Ghost Fluid Method & Stiff Detonation Waves",
12th Int. Detonation Symposium, San Diego, CA, 2002.
- Gibou, F., Fedkiw, R. Caflisch, R. and Osher S.,
"A Level Set Approach for the Numerical Simulation of Dendritic Growth",
J. Sci. Comput. 19, 183-199 (2003).
- Fedkiw, R., Sapiro, G. and Shu, C.-W.,
"Shock Capturing, Level Sets and PDE Based Methods in Computer Vision and Image Processing: A Review on Osher's Contribution",
J. Comput. Phys. 185, 309-341 (2003).
- Enright, D., Fedkiw, R., Ferziger, J. and Mitchell, I.,
"A Hybrid Particle Level Set Method for Improved Interface Capturing",
J. Comput. Phys. 183, 83-116 (2002).
- Gibou, F., Fedkiw, R., Cheng, L.-T. and Kang, M.,
"A Second Order Accurate Symmetric Discretization of the Poisson Equation on Irregular Domains",
J. Comput. Phys. 176, 205-227 (2002).
- Nguyen, D., Fedkiw, R. and Kang, M.,
"A Boundary Condition Capturing Method for Incompressible Flame Discontinuities",
J. Comput. Phys. 172, 71-98 (2001).
- Fedkiw, R.,
"Coupling an Eulerian Fluid Calculation to a Lagrangian Solid Calculation with the Ghost Fluid Method",
J. Comput. Phys. 175, 200-224 (2002).
- Osher, S. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Level Set Methods: An Overview and Some Recent Results",
J. Comput. Phys. 169, 463-502 (2001).
- Chen, S., Merriman, B., Kang, M., Caflisch, R., Ratsch, C., Cheng, L.-T., Gyure, M., Fedkiw R., Anderson,C. and Osher, S.,
"Level Set Method for Thin Film Epitaxial Growth",
J. Comput. Phys. 167, 475-500 (2001).
- Caiden, R., Fedkiw, R. and Anderson, C.,
"A Numerical Method for Two Phase Flow Consisting of Separate Compressible and Incompressible Regions",
J. Comput. Phys. 166, 1-27 (2001).
- Fedkiw, R.,
"The Ghost Fluid Method for Discontinuities and Interfaces",
Godunov Methods, edited by E.F. Toro, pp. 309-317, Kluwer, New York 2001.
- Kang, M., Fedkiw, R. and Liu, X.-D.,
"A Boundary Condition Capturing Method for Multiphase Incompressible Flow",
J. Sci. Comput. 15, 323-360 (2000).
- Liu, X.-D., Fedkiw, R. and Kang, M.,
"A Boundary Condition Capturing Method for Poisson's Equation on Irregular Domains",
J. Comput. Phys. 160, 151-178 (2000).
- Hwang, P., Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B., Aslam, T., Karagozian, A. and Osher, S.,
"Numerical Resolution of Pulsating Detonation Waves",
Combustion Theory and Modeling 4, 217-240 (2000).
- Fedkiw, R. and Liu, X.-D.,
"The Ghost Fluid Method for Viscous Flows",
Innovative Methods for Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations, edited by M. Hafez and J.-J. Chattot, pp. 111-143, World Scientific Publishing, New Jersey, 2002.
- Fedkiw, R., Aslam, T. and Xu, S.,
"The Ghost Fluid Method for Deflagration and Detonation Discontinuities",
J. Comput. Phys. 154, 393-427 (1999).
- Fedkiw, R., Aslam, T., Merriman, B. and Osher, S.,
"A Non-Oscillatory Eulerian Approach to Interfaces in Multimaterial Flows (The Ghost Fluid Method)",
J. Comput. Phys. 152, 457-492 (1999).
- Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B. and Osher, S.,
"Simplified Upwind Discretization of Systems of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws Containing Advection Equations",
J. Comput. Phys. 157, 302-326 (2000).
- Liu, X.-D., Fedkiw, R., and Osher, S.,
"A Quasi-Conservative Approach to the Multiphase Euler Equations without Spurious Pressure Oscillations",
Advances in Scientific Computing, 106-115, edited by Z.-C. Shi, M. Mu, W. Xue and J. Zou, Science Press Beijing/New York 2001.
- Fedkiw, R., Marquina, A. and Merriman, B.,
"An Isobaric Fix for the Overheating Problem in Multimaterial Compressible Flows",
J. Comput. Phys. 148, 545-578 (1999).
- Fedkiw, R., Liu, X.-D. and Osher, S.,
"A General Technique for Eliminating Spurious Oscillations in Conservative Schemes for Multiphase and Multispecies Euler Equations",
Int. J. Nonlinear Sci. and Numer. Sim. 3, 99-106 (2002).
- Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B. and Osher, S.,
"Efficient Characteristic Projection in Upwind Difference Schemes for Hyperbolic Systems (The Complementary Projection Method)",
J. Comput. Phys. 141, 22-36 (1998).
- Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B. and Osher, S.,
"Numerical Methods for a One-Dimensional Interface Separating Compressible and Incompressible Flows",
Barriers and Challenges in Computational Fluid Dynamics, edited by V. Venkatakrishnan, M. Salas, and S. Chakravarthy, pp. 155-194, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1998.
- Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B., Donat, R. and Osher, S.,
"The Penultimate Scheme for Systems of Conservation Laws: Finite Difference ENO with Marquina's Flux Splitting",
Innovative Methods for Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations, edited by M. Hafez and J.-J. Chattot, pp. 49-85, World Scientific Publishing, New Jersey, 2002.
- Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B. and Osher, S.,
"Numerical Methods for a Mixture of Thermally Perfect and/or Calorically Perfect Gaseous Species with Chemical Reactions",
J. Comput. Phys. 132, 175-190 (1997).
Ph.D. thesis...
Computer Graphics, Vision & Biomechanics...
- Lentine, M.,Grétarsson, J., Schroeder, C., Robinson-Mosher, A. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Creature Control in a Fluid Environment",
IEEE TVCG (2010).
- Kwatra, N., Grétarsson, J. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Practical Animation of Compressible Flow for Shock Waves and Related Phenomena",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by M. Otaduy and Z. Popovic, (to appear) (2010).
- Lentine, M., Zheng, W. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A Novel Algorithm for Incompressible Flow Using Only a Coarse Grid Projection",
SIGGRAPH 2010, ACM TOG (2010).
- Su, J., Schroeder, C. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Energy Stability and Fracture for Frame Rate Rigid Body Simulations",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by Eitan Grinspun and Jessica Hodgins, pp. 155-164 (2009).
- Robinson-Mosher, A., English, E. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Accurate Tangential Velocities for Solid Fluid Coupling",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by Eitan Grinspun and Jessica Hodgins, pp. 227-236 (2009).
- Shinar, T., Schroeder, C. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Two-way Coupling of Rigid and Deformable Bodies",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by Doug James and Markus Gross, pp. 95-103 (2008).
- Selle, A., Lentine, M. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A Mass Spring Model for Hair Simulation",
SIGGRAPH 2008, ACM TOG 27, 64.1-64.11 (2008).
- Robinson-Mosher, A., Shinar, T., Grétarsson, J., Su, J. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Two-way Coupling of Fluids to Rigid and Deformable Solids and Shells",
SIGGRAPH 2008, ACM TOG 27, 46.1-46.9 (2008).
- Selle. A, Su, J., Irving, G. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Robust High-Resolution Cloth Using Parallelism, History-Based Collisions, and Accurate Friction,"
IEEE TVCG 15, 339-350 (2009).
- Losasso, F., Talton, J., Kwatra, N. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Two-way Coupled SPH and Particle Level Set Fluid Simulation",
IEEE TVCG 14, 797-804 (2008).
- Sifakis, E., Der, K. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Arbitrary Cutting of Deformable Tetrahedralized Objects",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Metaxas and J. Popovic, pp. 73-80 (2007).
- Sifakis, E., Shinar, T., Irving, G. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Hybrid Simulation of Deformable Solids",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Metaxas and J. Popovic pp. 81-90 (2007).
- Hong, J.-M., Shinar, T. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Wrinkled Flames and Cellular Patterns",
SIGGRAPH 2007, ACM TOG 26, 47.1-47.6 (2007).
- Irving, G., Schroeder, C. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Volume Conserving Finite Element Simulation of Deformable Models",
SIGGRAPH 2007, ACM TOG 26, 13.1-13.6 (2007).
- Weinstein, R., Guendelman, E. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Impulse-Based Control of Joints and Muscles",
IEEE TVCG 14, 37-46 (2008).
- Bao, Z., Hong, J.-M., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Fracturing Rigid Materials",
IEEE TVCG 13, 370-378 (2007).
- Geiger, W., Leo, M., Rasmussen, N., Losasso, F. and Fedkiw, R.,
"So Real It'll Make You Wet",
SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches and Applications, 2006.
- Weinstein, R., Guendelman, E. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Impulse-Based PD Control for Joints and Muscles",
SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches and Applications, 2006.
- Sifakis, E., Selle, A., Robinson-Mosher, A. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Simulating Speech with a Physics-Based Facial Muscle Model",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by M.-P. Cani and J. O.Brien, pp. 261-270, 2006.
- Losasso, F., Shinar, T. Selle, A. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Multiple Interacting Liquids",
SIGGRAPH 2006, ACM TOG 25, 812-819 (2006).
- Irving, G., Guendelman, E., Losasso, F. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Efficient Simulation of Large Bodies of Water by Coupling Two and Three Dimensional Techniques",
SIGGRAPH 2006, ACM TOG 25, 805-811 (2006).
- Blemker, S., Teran, J., Sifakis, E., Fedkiw, R. and Delp, S.,
"Fast 3D Muscle Simulations using a New Quasistatic Invertible Finite-Element Algorithm",
10th International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics, Cleveland, OH, July 2005.
- Weinstein, R., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Dynamic Simulation of Articulated Rigid Bodies with Contact and Collision",
IEEE TVCG 12, 365-374 (2006).
- Losasso, F., Irving, G., Guendelman, E. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Melting and Burning Solids into Liquids and Gases",
IEEE TVCG 12, 343-352 (2006).
- Teran, J., Sifakis, E., Irving, G. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Robust Quasistatic Finite Elements and Flesh Simulation",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by K. Anjyo and P. Faloutsos, pp. 181-190, 2005.
- Geiger, W., Rasmussen, N., Hoon, S. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Space Battle Pyromania",
SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketches and Applications, 2005.
- Weinstein, R., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Pre-stabilization for Rigid Body Articulation with Contact and Collision",
SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketches and Applications, 2005.
- Sifakis, E. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Facial Muscle Activations from Motion Capture",
Video Proceedings of the 2005 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2005.
- Sifakis, E., Neverov, I. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Automatic Determination of Facial Muscle Activations from Sparse Motion Capture Marker Data",
SIGGRAPH 2005, ACM TOG 24, 417-425 (2005).
- Guendelman, E., Selle, A., Losasso, F. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Coupling Water and Smoke to Thin Deformable and Rigid Shells",
SIGGRAPH 2005, ACM TOG 24, 973-981 (2005).
- Selle, A., Rasmussen, N. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A Vortex Particle Method for Smoke, Water and Explosions",
SIGGRAPH 2005, ACM TOG 24, 910-914 (2005).
- Irving, G., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Tetrahedral and Hexahedral Invertible Finite Elements",
Graphical Models 68, 66-89 (2006).
- Teran, J., Sifakis, E., Blemker, S., Ng Thow Hing, V., Lau, C. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Creating and Simulating Skeletal Muscle from the Visible Human Data Set",
IEEE TVCG 11, 317-328 (2005).
- Fedkiw, R.,
"Making a Computational Splash",
Computer Science, Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field, pp. 61-64, The National Academies Press, Washington, 2004.
- Irving, G., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Invertible Finite Elements for Robust Simulation of Large Deformation",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by R. Boulic and D. Pai, pp. 131-140, 2004.
- Rasmussen, N., Enright, D., Nguyen, D., Marino. S., Sumner, N., Geiger, W., Hoon, S. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Directible Photorealistic Liquids",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by R. Boulic and D. Pai, pp. 193-202, 2004.
- Losasso, F., Gibou, F. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Simulating Water and Smoke with an Octree Data Structure",
SIGGRAPH 2004, ACM TOG 23, 457-462 (2004).
- Molino, N., Bao, Z. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A Virtual Node Algorithm for Changing Mesh Topology During Simulation",
SIGGRAPH 2004, ACM TOG 23, 385-392 (2004).
- Nguyen, D., Enright, D., and Fedkiw, R.,
"Simulation and Animation of Fire and Other Natural Phenomena in the Visual Effects Industry",
Western States Section, Combustion Institute, Fall Meeting, UCLA, 2003.
- Teran, J., Blemker, S., Ng Thow Hing, V. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Finite Volume Methods for the Simulation of Skeletal Muscle",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Breen and M. Lin, pp. 68-74, 2003.
- Bridson, R., Marino, S. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Simulation of Clothing with Folds and Wrinkles",
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Breen and M. Lin, pp. 28-36, 2003.
- Geiger, W., Rasmussen, N., Hoon, S. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Big Bangs",
SIGGRAPH 2003 Sketches and Applications, 2003.
- Sumner, N., Hoon, S., Geiger, W., Marino, S., Rasmussen, N. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Melting a Terminatrix",
SIGGRAPH 2003 Sketches and Applications, 2003.
- Rasmussen, N., Nguyen, D., Geiger, W. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Smoke Simulation for Large Scale Phenomena",
SIGGRAPH 2003, ACM TOG 22, 703-707 (2003).
- Guendelman, E., Bridson, R. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Nonconvex Rigid Bodies with Stacking",
SIGGRAPH 2003, ACM TOG 22, 871-878 (2003).
- Gibou, F. and Fedkiw, R.,
"A Fast Hybrid k-Means Level Set Algorithm for Segmentation",
4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics and Mathematics, pp. 281-291, 2005.
Stanford Technical Report, November 2002.
- Fedkiw, R.,
"Simulating Natural Phenomena for Computer Graphics",
Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision and Graphics, edited by S. Osher and N. Paragios, pp. 461-479, Springer Verlag, New York, 2003.
- Enright, D., Marschner, S. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Animation and Rendering of Complex Water Surfaces",
SIGGRAPH 2002, ACM TOG 21, 736-744 (2002).
- Nguyen, D., Fedkiw, R. and Jensen, H.,
"Physically Based Modeling and Animation of Fire",
SIGGRAPH 2002, ACM TOG 21, 721-728 (2002).
- Bridson, R., Fedkiw, R. and Anderson, J.,
"Robust Treatment of Collisions, Contact and Friction for Cloth Animation",
SIGGRAPH 2002, ACM TOG 21, 594-603 (2002).
- Zhao, H.-K., Osher, S. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Fast Surface Reconstruction using the Level Set Method",
1st IEEE Workshop on Variational and Level Set Methods, in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Vancouver, Canada, 194-202 (2001).
- Foster, N. and Fedkiw, R.,
"Practical Animation of Liquids",
SIGGRAPH 2001, 15-22 (2001).
- Fedkiw, R., Stam, J. and Jensen, H.W.,
"Visual Simulation of Smoke",
SIGGRAPH 2001, 23-30 (2001).
Students
Ph.D. Students
Former Ph.D. Students
- Douglas Enright Ph.D. 2002 - Aerospace Corporation
- Ian Mitchell Ph.D. 2002 co-advisor (primary advisor - Claire Tomlin) - Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia
- Robert Bridson Ph.D. 2003 - Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia
- Neil Molino Ph.D. 2004 - Vostu
- Igor Neverov Ph.D. 2005 - Insomniac Games
- Joseph Teran Ph.D. 2005 - Assistant Professor at UCLA
- Eran Guendelman Ph.D. 2006 - PrimeSense
- Zhaosheng Bao Ph.D. 2006 - Microsoft Research Asia
- Rachel Weinstein Ph.D. 2007 - Google
- Eftychios Sifakis Ph.D. 2007 - Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (starting January 2011)
- Frank Losasso Ph.D. 2007 - Industrial Light + Magic
- Geoffrey Irving Ph.D. 2007 - Weta Digital
- Andrew Selle Ph.D. 2008 - Disney
- Tamar Shinar Ph.D. 2008 - Postdoctoral Scholar at Courant
- Avi Robinson-Mosher Ph.D. 2010 - Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wyss Institute/Harvard Medical School
Former Postdoctoral Scholars
- Duc Nguyen 2001-2004 - Lockheed Martin
- Frederic Gibou 2001-2004 - Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Ian Mitchell 2002-2003 - Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia
- Jeong-Mo Hong 2005-2007 - Assistant Professor at Dongguk University
- Robert Strzodka 2005-2007 - Independent Junior Research Group Leader (i.e. Assistant Professor) at the Max Planck Institute
PhysBAM
We are going to be making certain aspects of our Physics Based Modeling code (PhysBAM) available here on this web site.
PhysBAM_Tools - contains our data structures, matrices, vectors, linear algebra, FFT's, etc. and can be compiled and used independently of anything else.
PhysBAM_Geometry - contains level sets, triangulated surfaces, tetrahedralized volumes, particle systems, etc. and depends only on PhysBAM_Tools.
PhysBAM_Rendering - contains a ray tracer for dealing with PhysBAM_Geometry, includes photon mapping suitable for smoke and water rendering, etc.
PhysBAM_OpenGL - contains our visualization and debugging tools useful for dealing with PhysBAM_Geometry as well as some data structures in PhysBAM_Tools.
Generally speaking one should be able to use PhysBAM_Tools and PhysBAM_Geometry with their own visualization/rendering and ignore PhysBAM_Rendering and PhysBAM_OpenGL altogether if desired.
PhysBAM_Dynamics is currently a bit too massive to be released as is, so we will be releasing certain subsets of it dedicated towards certain application areas.
Examples may include a smoke simulator, a real time rigid body engine, 2D/3D meshing software, a virtual surgery simulator, a cloth simulator, etc.
DISCLAIMER: As these will be a pared and modified version of the PhysBAM library, it will likely not accurately represent the full capabilities of the code base - but still be rather useful.
This does mean however that persons should refrain from attributing any results obtained from this sample code to the behavior of the PhysBAM library.
In particular, statements of this sort in academic papers will be heavily frowned upon.
RELEASE NOTES: PhysBAM will be released in versions starting with 1.0, and subsequent versions 1.1, etc. will be backward compatible until we reach the next full version, i.e. 2.0 will not be compatible with version 1. I will maintain a set of notes that preceed the release of each version so people know what is or may be coming. The first set of notes will be PhysBAM 1.0, and immediately after the release of 1.0 I will start working on the PhysBAM 2.0 notes.
PhysBAM 1.0 Release Notes
MODERATORS: There is no possible way for me to handle the large number of emails or comments that I currently get on this web page much less what may happen when I release this code. In fact, I PROFUSELY apologize to those of you that have in the past had nice things to say - albeit with no response from me. Thus, I am looking for moderators that would be willing to gel together any set of users or otherwise interested parties. If you are interested in being a moderator for PhysBAM please let me know. I will post a list of moderators on this web site in nthe followingn format: NAME, CONTACT INFO, AREA. The contact info can be email, website, whatever, and the area could be geographic, research and development specific, or both - whatever buzz words you think apply.
G-number (some data is a year or so out of date... updates are currently happening in a top down fashion)
A (G)raphics researcher's G-number is calculated as the number of papers/books/citations on (G)oogle Scholar that contain more than 200 cites.
Note that the best way to search Google scholar seems to be by using the first initial of the first name, e.g. "r fedkiw".
(G)eez, there are so many citation indexes out there, I just felt like we needed another one.
Note that G comes before H (as in h-number), and that G also stands Graphics, Google, and even Goober.
This is only a partial list that I put together when I was bored one day. No omissions or errors are intentional, but rather an indication of my competence.
Please feel free to email me corrections, additions... or even a complete list.
Since this has been posted, I have received emails about a few people who collaborate with graphics folks (applied math, computer vision and robotics researchers) and have added some suggested
names to the list - just for fun...
NOTE: I will periodically update the names on this list to the best of my ability, but finding new names to add to the list is more difficult - emails pertaining to this are greatly appreciated!
Takeo Kanade (44);
David Donoho (38);
Stan Osher (33);
Sebastian Thrun (32);
Pierre-Louis Lions (31);
Jitendra Malik (31);
Gene Golub (30);
Demetri Terzopoulos (29);
Benoit Mandelbrot (26);
Richard Szeliski (26);
Olivier Faugeras (24);
Pat Hanrahan (24);
Leo Guibas (23);
Jerrold Marsden (23);
Wim Sweldens (20);
Andrew Witkin (20);
Peter Lax (19);
Ingrid Daubechies (18);
David Salesin (18);
Hugues Hoppe (17);
Marc Levoy (17);
Donald Greenberg (16);
Frederick Brooks (15);
James Sethian (15);
Michael Cohen (13);
Pietro Perona (13);
Guillermo Sapiro (13);
Greg Turk (13);
Ron Fedkiw (12);
Paul Heckbert (12);
Shree Nayar (12);
Michael Black (11);
Tony DeRose (11);
Michael Kass (11);
Carlo Tomasi (11);
Al Barr (10);
John Canny (10);
Amiram Harten (10);
Harry Shum (10);
Norman Badler (9);
Michael Crandall (9);
David Forsyth (9);
John Platt (9);
Carlo Sequin (9);
Peter Shirley (9);
Alexander Chorin (8);
Mathieu Desbrun (8);
Steven Gortler (8);
Henrik Jensen (8);
Leonard McMillan (8);
Kenneth Torrance (8);
Allen Van Gelder (8);
Chris Bregler (7);
Brian Curless (7);
Bjorn Engquist (7);
Henry Fuchs (7);
Michael Garland (7);
Markus Gross (7);
John Hughes (7);
Dimitris Metaxas (7);
Jean-Michel Morel (7);
Bram Van Leer (7);
David Baraff (6);
Jim Blinn (6);
Robert Cook (6);
Paul Debevec (6);
Tom Duchamp (6);
James Foley (6);
Aaron Hertzmann (6);
Jessica Hodgins (6);
Ming Lin (6);
Dinesh Manocha (6);
Ken Perlin (6);
Jarek Rossignac (6);
Szymon Rusinkiewicz (6);
Jonathan Shewchuk (6);
Nina Amenta (5);
Loren Carpenter (5);
Irfan Essa (5);
Michael Gleicher (5);
James Kajiya (5);
Dani Lischinski (5);
Peter Lindstrom (5);
Steve Marschner (5);
James O'Brien (5);
Hanspeter Pfister (5);
Steven Seitz (5);
Jos Stam (5);
Ivan Sutherland (5);
Lance Williams (5);
Marc Alexa (4);
William Mark (4);
Zoran Popovic (4);
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (4);
William Reeves (4);
Peter Schroder (4);
Francois Sillion (4);
John Snyder (4);
Kurt Akeley (3);
Ian Buck (3);
Jonathan Cohen (3);
Julie Dorsey (3);
Fredo Durand (3);
Ed Catmull (3);
Nick Foster (3);
Arie Kaufman (3);
Frank Losasso (3);
Mark Meyer (3);
Frederic Pighin (3);
Jovan Popovic (3);
Jonathan Shade (3);
Claudio Silva (3);
Denis Zorin (3);
David Adalsteinsson (2);
Robert Bridson (2);
Doug Enright (2);
P. J. Narayanan (2);
Craig Reynolds (2);
*** OLD DATA BELOW... these next two groups of (2)'s and (1)'s have not yet been updated
Sean Anderson (2);
Brian Cabral (2);
Paolo Cignoni (2);
Alexei Efros (2);
Adam Finkelstein (2);
Alain Fournier (2);
Radek Grzeszczuk (1);
Brian Guenter (2);
Igor Guskov (2);
Mike Houston (2);
Timothy Kay (2);
David Koller (2);
Jehee Lee (2);
JP Lewis (2);
David Luebke (2);
Thomas Porter (2);
Kari Pulli (2);
Charles Rose (2);
Roberto Scopigno (2);
Thomas Sederberg (2);
Hans-Peter Seidel (2);
Sung Yong Shin (2);
Peter-Pike Sloan (2);
Alvy Ray Smith (2);
Mark Sussman (2);
Andries van Dam (2);
Joe Warren (2);
Rudiger Westermann (2);
Turner Whitted (2);
Yizhou Yu (2);
Hongkai Zhao (2);
Matthias Zwicker (2);
John Anderson (1);
Ronen Barzel (1);
Brian Barsky (1);
Thaddeus Beier (1);
Bobby Bodenheimer (1);
George Borshukov (1);
Jack Bresenham (1);
Marie-Paule Cani (1);
Daniel Cohen-Or (1);
Gilles Debunne (1);
Tom Duff (1);
Petros Faloutsos (1);
Raanan Fattal (1);
Sarah Frisken (1);
Steven Glanville (1);
Eitan Grinspun (1);
John Hart (1);
Greg Humphreys (1);
Takeo Igarashi (1);
Doug James (1);
Jan Kautz (1);
Mark Kilgard (1);
Ron Kimmel (1);
Venkat Krishnamurthy (1);
Vivek Kwatra (1);
John Lasseter (1);
Peter Litwinowicz (1);
Charles Loop (1);
Sebastian Marino (1);
Nelson Max (1);
Claudio Montani (1);
Shawn Neely (1);
Ren Ng (1);
John Owens (1);
Dinesh Pai (1);
Darwyn Peachey (1);
Cary Phillips (1);
Stephen Platt (1);
Nancy Pollard (1);
Timothy Purcell (1);
Claudio Rocchini (1);
Alyn Rockwood (1);
Seth Teller (1);
Li-Yi Wei (1);
I have been asked why I set the bar so high at 200 citations.
Well in this day and age of flashy conferences, smoke, mirrors, and publicity, I wanted the number high enough to weed out the short term hype.
It seems that quite a few papers quickly rise to 100 citations and then completely disappear.
In that spirit, I've also included the notion of G' or G-prime.
It has all the properties of the G-number but is based on double the number of citations, i.e. 400 cites.
Then G'' would be based on 800 cites, etc.
And in order to weed out all the one hit wonders, one is only eligible to advance in the primes if their current number is at least 2.
For example, one needs a G number of at least 2 in order to have a G' number, and a G' number of at least 2 in order to have a G'' number, etc.
Here are the G' numbers for the people on the G-number list above.
David Donoho (19);
Jitendra Malik (16);
Pierre-Louis Lions (15);
Stan Osher (14);
Wim Sweldens (14);
Gene Golub (13);
Sebastian Thrun (13);
Olivier Faugeras (12);
Demetri Terzopoulos (12);
Ingrid Daubechies (11);
Marc Levoy (10);
Jerrold Marsden (10);
Richard Szeliski (10);
Takeo Kanade (9);
Benoit Mandelbrot (9);
Frederick Brooks (8);
Tony DeRose (8);
Hugues Hoppe (8);
James Sethian (8);
Peter Lax (7);
John Platt (7);
Steven Gortler (6);
Pat Hanrahan (6);
Pietro Perona (6);
Guillermo Sapiro (6);
Carlo Tomasi (6);
Al Barr (5);
Jim Blinn (5);
Michael Crandall (5);
Paul Debevec (5);
Ron Fedkiw (5);
Leo Guibas (5);
Amiram Harten (5);
Michael Kass (5);
Shree Nayar (5);
David Salesin (5);
Greg Turk (5);
Bram Van Leer (5);
Andrew Witkin (5);
Alexander Chorin (4);
Michael Cohen (4);
Robert Cook (4);
Tom Duchamp (4);
Bjorn Engquist (4);
Henry Fuchs (4);
Paul Heckbert (4);
John Hughes (4);
James Kajiya (4);
Jean-Michel Morel (4);
Harry Shum (4);
Ivan Sutherland (4);
Allen Van Gelder (4);
Lance Williams (4);
Nina Amenta (3);
David Baraff (3);
Michael Black (3);
Chris Bregler (3);
John Canny (3);
Loren Carpenter (3);
James Foley (3);
David Forsyth (3);
Donald Greenberg (3);
Henrik Jensen (3);
Ming Lin (3);
Dinesh Manocha (3);
Leonard McMillan (3);
Ken Perlin (3);
Jarek Rossignac (3);
Szymon Rusinkiewicz (3);
Steven Seitz (3);
Kenneth Torrance (3);
Bram van Leer (3);
David Adalsteinsson (2);
Kurt Akeley (2);
Marc Alexa (2);
Norman Badler (2);
Ian Buck (2);
Brian Cabral (2);
Ed Catmull (2);
Jonathan Cohen (2);
Brian Curless (2);
Mathieu Desbrun (2);
Alexei Efros (2);
Irfan Essa (2);
Nick Foster (2);
Michael Garland (2);
Michael Gleicher (2);
Markus Gross (2);
Jessica Hodgins (2);
David Koller (2);
Dani Lischinski (2);
William Mark (2);
Dimitris Metaxas (2);
Mark Meyer (2);
Hanspeter Pfister (2);
Frederic Pighin (2);
Thomas Porter (2);
William Reeves (2);
Craig Reynolds (2);
Carlo Sequin (2);
Peter Schroder (2);
Jonathan Shewchuk (2);
John Snyder (2);
Jos Stam (2);
Andries van Dam (2);
Sean Anderson (1);
Julie Dorsey (1);
Fredo Durand (1);
Doug Enright (1);
Adam Finkelstein (1);
Aaron Hertzmann (1);
Arie Kaufman (1);
Peter Lindstrom (1);
David Luebke (1);
Steve Marschner (1);
P. J. Narayanan (1);
James O'Brien (1);
Zoran Popovic (1);
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (1);
Kari Pulli (1);
Thomas Sederberg (1);
Jonathan Shade (1);
Peter Shirley (1);
Francois Sillion (1);
Claudio Silva (1);
Mark Sussman (1);
Joe Warren (1);
Turner Whitted (1);
Matthias Zwicker (1);
Those with a G' number of at least two are assigned a G'' number based on the number of papers with 800 cites.
Here are the G'' numbers.
Marc Levoy (9);
David Donoho (8);
Ingrid Daubechies (7);
Pierre-Louis Lions (7);
Benoit Mandelbrot (7);
Jerrold Marsden (7);
Jitendra Malik (6);
Tony DeRose (5);
Peter Lax (5);
Stan Osher (5);
James Sethian (5);
Bram Van Leer (5);
Alexander Chorin (4);
Hugues Hoppe (4);
Takeo Kanade (4);
Wim Sweldens (4);
Carlo Tomasi (4);
Frederick Brooks (3);
Tom Duchamp (3);
Olivier Faugeras (3);
Gene Golub (3);
Amiram Harten (3);
Demetri Terzopoulos (3);
Sebastian Thrun (3);
Al Barr (2);
Michael Black (2);
John Canny (2);
Loren Carpenter (2);
Michael Crandall (2);
Paul Debevec (2);
Bjorn Engquist (2);
James Foley (2);
Pat Hanrahan (2);
Jean-Michel Morel (2);
Pietro Perona (2);
John Platt (2);
Guillermo Sapiro (2);
Richard Szeliski (2);
Kenneth Torrance (2);
Andrew Witkin (2);
David Baraff (1);
Jim Blinn (1);
Ed Catmull (1);
Michael Cohen (1);
Robert Cook (1);
Brian Curless (1);
Ron Fedkiw (1);
David Forsyth (1);
Michael Garland (1);
Steven Gortler (1);
Donald Greenberg (1);
Leo Guibas (1);
Paul Heckbert (1);
John Hughes (1);
James Kajiya (1);
Michael Kass (1);
Ming Lin (1);
Dinesh Manocha (1);
Leonard McMillan (1);
Shree Nayar (1);
Ken Perlin (1);
William Reeves (1);
Craig Reynolds (1);
Szymon Rusinkiewicz (1);
David Salesin (1);
Jonathan Shewchuk (1);
Jos Stam (1);
Ivan Sutherland (1);
Greg Turk (1);
Andries van Dam (1);
Allen van Gelder (1);
Lance Williams (1);
Those with a G'' number of at least two are assigned a G''' number based on the number of papers with 1600 cites.
Yes, this gets exponentially hard, and thus I'm not worried about the awkward notation with repeated primes.
Ingrid Daubechies (6);
David Donoho (4);
Jitendra Malik (4);
Benoit Mandelbrot (4);
Frederick Brooks (3);
Takeo Kanade (3);
James Sethian (3);
Michael Crandall (2);
James Foley (2);
Hugues Hoppe (2);
Marc Levoy (2);
Pierre-Louis Lions (2);
Stan Osher (2);
Carlo Tomasi (2);
John Canny (1);
Alexander Chorin (5);
Tony DeRose (1);
Tom Duchamp (1);
Olivier Faugeras (1);
Gene Golub (1);
Pat Hanrahan (1);
Amiram Harten (1);
Peter Lax (1);
Jerrold Marsden (1);
Pietro Perona (1);
Guillermo Sapiro (1);
Wim Sweldens (1);
Richard Szeliski (1);
Demetri Terzopoulos (1);
Bram Van Leer (1);
Andrew Witkin (1);
And those with a G''' number of at least two get a G'''' number based on the number of papers with 3200 cites.
Jitendra Malik (3);
Ingrid Daubechies (2);
Benoit Mandelbrot (2);
David Donoho (1);
James Foley (1);
Takeo Kanade (1);
Stan Osher (1);
James Sethian (1);
And those with a G'''' number of at least two gets a G''''' number based on the number of papers with 6400 cites.
Ingrid Daubechies (1);
Jitendra Malik (1);
Benoit Mandelbrot (1);
And there it ends. No one is eligible for another prime.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has an
awards database
that one can search for Sci-Tech awards. So I looked for some of the people with G-numbers there:
Academy Award of Merit (Statuette) -
Rob Cook, Loren Carpenter and Ed Catmull 2000;
Scientific and Engineering Award (Plaque) -
Loren Carpenter, Rob Cook, Ed Catmull, Thomas Porter, Pat Hanarahan, Darwyn Peachey (et al.) 1992;
Alvy Ray Smith, Ed Catmull, Thomas Porter and Tom Duff 1995;
William Reeves 1996;
William Reeves, Tom Duff (et al.) 1997;
Craig Reynolds 1997;
Alvy Ray Smith, Thomas Porter (et al.) 1997;
David Baraff, Michael Kass and Andrew Witkin 2005;
Ron Fedkiw (et al.) 2007;
Technical Achievement Award (Certificate) -
James Kajiya and Timothy Kay 1996;
Ken Perlin 1996;
Thaddeus Beier 1998;
Nick Foster 1998;
Cary Phillips 1998;
George Borshukov (et al.) 2000;
Venkat Krishnamurthy 2000;
John Anderson, Cary Phillips (et al.) 2001;
Lance Williams 2001;
Henrik Jensen, Steve Marschner and Pat Hanarahan 2003;
Ed Catmull, Tony DeRose and Jos Stam 2005;
John Platt and Demetri Terzopoulos 2005;
Peter Litwinowicz (et al.) 2006;
Jonathan Cohen (et al.) 2007;
Jos Stam (et al.) 2007;
Teaching
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CS448X Math and Computer Science behind Special Effects
This course will focus on a number of case studies of special effects work in feature films, with the aim of elucidating the underlying technical challenges from the standpoint of mathematics and computer science. As a project based class, individuals may more deeply focus on the individual aspects of most interest to them be it rendering, computational geometry, computer vision, physical simulation, or character animation. We will invite some guests from industry to speak about effects work they and their colleagues have been involved in as well as discuss some current challenges in the industry. Students will be asked to submit a case study style project either alone or in an appropriate group. Since the course may be taken multiple times for credit, and will be open to both undergraduate and graduate students with varied backgrounds and interests, grading will be based on individual effort relative to preparation - as such we are not currently enforcing any prerequisites. 3 credits
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Fall quarter 2009 - CS 205A - Mathematical Methods for Robotics, Vision and Graphics
Overview of some of the continuous mathematics background necessary for research in robotics, vision, and graphics.
Possible topics: linear algebra; the conjugate gradient method; ordinary and partial differential equations; vector
and tensor calculus; calculus of variations.
Prerequisites: 106B or 106X; MATH 51 and 113; or equivalents. 3 units.
- Spring quarter 2009 - CS 205B - Mathematical Methods for Fluids, Solids and Interfaces
- Fall quarter 2008 - CS 205A - Mathematical Methods for Robotics, Vision and Graphics
- Spring quarter 2008 - CS 205B - Mathematical Methods for Fluids, Solids and Interfaces
- Fall quarter 2007 - CS 205A - Mathematical Methods for Robotics, Vision and Graphics
- Spring quarter 2007 - CS 237C - Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations II
- Fall quarter 2006 - CS 205 - Mathematical Methods for Robotics, Vision and Graphics
- Spring quarter 2006 - CS 237C - Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations II
- Fall quarter 2005 - CS 205 - Mathematical Methods for Robotics, Vision and Graphics
- Spring quarter 2005 - CS 237C - Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations II
- Fall quarter 2004 - CS 205 - Mathematical Methods for Robotics, Vision and Graphics
- Spring quarter 2004 - CS 237C - Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations II
- Fall quarter 2003 - CS 205 - Mathematical Methods for Robotics, Vision and Graphics
- Spring quarter 2003 - CS 448 - Physics Based Animation for Modeling Virtual Humans
- Fall quarter 2002 - CS 205 - Mathematical Methods for Robotics, Vision and Graphics
- Spring quarter 2002 - CS 237D - Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations II
- Fall quarter 2001 - CS 339 - Level Set Methods
- Spring quarter 2001 - CS 448 - Physics Based Animation for Computer Graphics
- Fall quarter 2000 - CS 137 - Introduction to Scientific Computing
Personal Stuff
- Brittany and Briana...
- Some scuba diving photos...
octopus,
octopus2,
turtle
- I used to be a competitive weightlifter with a personal best squat of 800 pounds, bench press of 555 pounds
and deadlift of 735 pounds, all in the 198 pound weight class...
squatting 775 pounds,
incline dumbbell press with 170 pound dumbbells,
deadlifting 661 pounds,
front,
back,
side,
torso,
arms
