Alan H. Barr
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- California Institute of Technology, Computer Science, Professor of Computer Science
Location:
- Pasadena, California, United States of America
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 1993
Alan Barr is a Professor of Computer Science and faculty member in the Computation and Neural Systems department at the California Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1983, joining the Caltech faculty shortly thereafter. In 1988, he received the Siggraph Achievement award for his work in computer graphics modeling, particularly for physically based and teleological modeling.
SIGGRAPH 1992
Alan Barr is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and faculty member in the Computation and Neural Systems department at the California Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1983, joining the Caltech faculty shortly thereafter. In 1988, he received the Siggraph Achievement award for his work in computer graphics modeling, particularly for physically based and teleological modeling.
SIGGRAPH 1984
Alan H. Barr is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the California Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has been a senior research scientist at Raster Technologies, Inc. His primary research interests are modeling techniques and the generic mathematical and computational machinery involved in both simulation of 3-D dynamic response and graphic appearance of natural phenomenon.
Course Organizer:
- SIGGRAPH 1986, "Developments in Ray Tracing"
- SIGGRAPH 1987, "Topics in Physically Based Modeling"
- SIGGRAPH 1988, "Developments in Physically-Based Modeling"
- SIGGRAPH 1984, "The Mathematics of Computer Graphics"
Learning Category: Jury Member:
Award(s):
Artwork(s):
Artwork Collaboration(s):
Animation/Video(s):
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Technical Papers]
Level set surface editing operators Presenter(s): [Museth] [Breen] [Whitaker] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 2002]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Dynamic real-time deformations using space & time adaptive sampling Presenter(s): [Debunne] [Desbrun] [Cani] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 2001]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Implicit fairing of irregular meshes using diffusion and curvature flow Presenter(s): [Desbrun] [Meyer] [Schröder] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1999]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Fast construction of accurate quaternion splines Presenter(s): [Ramamoorthi] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1997]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Cellular texture generation Presenter(s): [Fleischer] [Laidlaw] [Currin] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Correction of geometric perceptual distortions in pictures Presenter(s): [Zorin] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Implementing rotation matrix constraints in Analog VLSI Presenter(s): [Kirk] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1993]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Interval methods for multi-point collisions between time-dependent curved surfaces Presenter(s): [Snyder] [Woodbury] [Fleischer] [Currin] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1993]
Type: [Courses]
RES An Introduction to Physically Based Modeling Organizer(s): [Kass] [Witkin]
Presenter(s): [Kass] [Witkin] [Baraff] [Barr]
Entry No.: [60]
[SIGGRAPH 1993]
Type: [Courses]
An Introduction to Physically Based Modeling Organizer(s): [Kass] [Witkin]
Presenter(s): [Witkin] [Kass] [Barr] [Baraff]
Entry No.: [19]
[SIGGRAPH 1992]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Smooth interpolation of orientations with angular velocity constraints using quaternions Presenter(s): [Barr] [Currin] [Gabriel] [Hughes]
[SIGGRAPH 1992]
Type: [Courses]
An Introduction to Physically based Modeling Organizer(s): [Witkin] [Kass]
Presenter(s): [Baraff] [Barr]
Entry No.: [23]
[SIGGRAPH 1991]
Type: [Panels]
Computer Graphics: More Unsolved Problems Presenter(s): [Barr] [Brooks] [Card] [Clark] [Forrest] [Hanrahan] [van Dam]
Entry No.: [02]
[SIGGRAPH 1991]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Geometric collisions for time-dependent parametric surfaces Presenter(s): [Von Herzen] [Barr] [Zatz]
[SIGGRAPH 1990]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Guaranteed ray intersections with implicit surfaces Presenter(s): [Kalra] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1989]
Type: [Panels]
Physically-Based Modeling: Past, Present, and Future Presenter(s): [Terzopoulos] [Pittman] [Barr] [Zeltzer] [Witkin] [Blinn]
Entry No.: [07]
[SIGGRAPH 1989]
Type: [Technical Papers]
A modeling system based on dynamic constraints Presenter(s): [Barzel] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1988]
Type: [Courses]
Computer Graphics in Science Organizer(s): [Cook]
Presenter(s): [Cook] [Olson] [Nathan] [Barr] [Fangmeier] [Stephenson]
Entry No.: [20]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Constraints methods for flexible models Presenter(s): [Platt] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1988]
Type: [Courses]
Developments in Physically-Based Modeling Organizer(s): [Barr]
Presenter(s): [Barr] [Abel] [Barzel] [Greenberg] [Platt] [Reynolds]
Entry No.: [27]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Accurate triangulations of deformed, intersecting surfaces Presenter(s): [Von Herzen] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Courses]
Computer Graphics and the Sciences Organizer(s): [Cook]
Presenter(s): [Cook] [Barr] [Blinn] [Carpenter] [Drebin] [Haber] [Olson]
Entry No.: [27]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Elastically deformable models Presenter(s): [Terzopoulos] [Platt] [Barr] [Fleischer]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Energy constraints on parameterized models Presenter(s): [Witkin] [Fleischer] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Ray tracing complex models containing surface tessellations Presenter(s): [Snyder] [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Panels]
The Physical Simulation And Visual Representation of Natural Phenomena Presenter(s): [Barr] [Reeves] [Wolff] [Wolfram]
Entry No.: [07]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Courses]
Topics in Physically Based Modeling Organizer(s): [Barr]
Presenter(s): [Barr] [Barzel] [Haumann] [Platt] [Terzopoulos] [Witkin]
Entry No.: [17]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Courses]
Developments in Ray Tracing Organizer(s): [Barr]
Presenter(s): [Barr] [Arvo] [Inakage] [Kajiya] [Blinn] [Cook] [Whitted]
Entry No.: [12]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
Type: [Courses]
State of the Art in Image Synthesis Organizer(s): [Cook]
Presenter(s): [Cook] [Crow] [Duff] [Barr] [Greenberg]
Entry No.: [15]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Global and local deformations of solid primitives Presenter(s): [Barr]
[SIGGRAPH 1984]
Role(s):
- Animation Director
- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Collaborator
- Awardee
- Course Moderator
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member