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Alan Chalmers

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  • University of Bristol, Department of Computer Science

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  • United Kingdom

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  • SIGGRAPH 2004

    Alan Chalmers is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published over 90 papers in journals and international conferences on very realistic graphics. He is currently a member of the Eurographics Executive Committee, is chair of the Eurographics Symposia Series on Graphics and Cultural Heritage and is a former Vice President of ACM SIGGRAPH. His research is investigating the use of very realistic graphics in the accurate visualization of archaeological site reconstructions and techniques which may be used to reduced computation times without affecting the perceptual quality of the images.?

    SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

    Alan Chalmers has an MSc with distinction from Rhodes University (1985) and a PhD from the University of Bristol (1991). He has published over 140 papers in journals and international conferences on high-fidelity graphics, parallel rendering, and virtual archaeology. He is honorary president of Afrigraph and former Vice President of ACM SIGGRAPH. In addition, he is a member of the editorial board for the journals ACM Transactions on Applied Perception and Parallel Computing. His research goal is “realism in real time”: obtaining physically based realistic images at interactive rates through a combination of parallel processing and visual-perception techniques.

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