Brian Wyvill
About Brian Wyvill
- Affiliations
- University of Calgary, Professor
- iMAGIS-GRAVIR
- University of Victoria
- Location
- Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Bio
SIGGRAPH 1996
Brian Wyvill is a professor in the department of computer science at the University of Calgary. After gaining his PhD in the UK in 1975, he worked at the Royal College of Art as a post doc. in London on a computer animation system used to make sequences for the film ‘‘Alien’’. Since coming to Calgary in 1981, Brian’s research has concentrated on building the Graphicsland Animation and visualization system. Recent work is in the areas of implicit surface modeling, animation techniques and scientific visualization. Brian has directed several animations (two shown at SIGGRAPH) that feature implicit surfaces. Currently he is interested in a very efficient adaptive tiling algorithm, as well as new techniques for warping, blending and collision detection using implicit surfaces and most recently the simulation of lightning and glowing objects. Brian is a member of ACM, SIGGRAPH, and the editorial boards of the Visual Computer and the Journal of Animation and Scientific Visualization.
SIGGRAPH 1994
Brian Wyvill is a professor in the department of computer science at the University of Calgary. After gaining his PhD in the UK in 1975, he worked at the Royal College of Art as a post doc. in London on a computer animation system used to make sequences for the film “Alien”. Since coming to Calgary in 1981, Brian’s research has concentrated on building the Graphicsland Animation and visualization system. Recent work is in the areas of implicit surface modeling, animation techniques and scientific visualization. Brian has directed several animations (two shown at SIGGRAPH) that feature implicit surfaces. Currently he is interested in a very efficient adaptive tiling algorithm, as well as new techniques for warping, blending and collision detection using implicit surfaces and most recently the simulation of lightning and glowing objects. Brian is a member of ACM, SIGGRAPH, and the editorial boards of the Visual Computer and the Journal of Animation and Scientific Visualization.
SIGGRAPH 1993
Brian is a professor at the University of Calgary where he leads the GraphicsJungle research group. In addition to publishing several papers on modeling and animation, Brian has directed several animations (two shown at SIGGRAPH) that feature implicit surfaces.
SIGGRAPH 1988
Brian Wyvill received his Ph.D from the University of Bradford in 1975 and continued his interest in computer animation as a research fellow at the Royal College of Art. Wyvill is now a full Professor at the University of Calgary, where he leads the GRAPHICSLAND animation research team. His current interests are in “soft” objects, motion control and recursive data structures for computer animation. He is a member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society, CGS and SIGGRAPH and the editorial board of The Visual Computer.
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SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Conference Contributions
- Animations / Videos
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[History] - Competitions Participated
- Presentations
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Presenter(s): - Sessions Moderated
- “Computer Graphics Disruptions in Art, Science, Visualization, Engineering and Modeling” by Kawaguchi, Fiume, Kasik and Rockwood
- “Rendering with paintstrokes” by Neulander
- “Motion tracking for special effects in the film industry” by Lando
- “Textured rulers and arcs” by Shaw
- “Texturing implicit surfaces with particle systems” by Zonenschein, Gomes, Velho and Figueiredo
- “The morphological cross-dissolve” by Novins and Arvo
- “The Holodeck interactive ray cache” by Larson and Simmons
- “Interactive rendering with arbitrary BRDFs using separable approximations” by Kautz and McCool
- “Filtered noise and the fourth dimension” by Wyvill and Novins
- “Polytope Sections” by Towle
- “Near Real-Time Cutting” by Neumann
- “A Solution to Vertex Path Problem in Shape Blending by Using a Dependency Graph” by Johan, Koiso and Nishita
- ““Meshsweeper:” Fast Closest Point on a Polygonal Mesh” by Guéziec
- Courses Organized
- “Modeling and Animating With Implicit Surfaces” Chaired by Brian Wyvill and Jules Bloomenthal
- “Modeling, Visualizing, and Animating Implicit Surfaces” by Bloomenthal, Wyvill, Bajaj, Beier, Blinn, et al. …
- “Implicit Surfaces for Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics” by Menon, Wyvill, Bajaj, Bloomenthal, Guo, et al. …
- “Non-Traditional Modeling” by Wyvill, Ebert and Gross
Other Information
- Roles
- Competition Participant
- Computer Animation Director
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- History Contributor
- Panel Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Retrospective Moderator
- Talk (Sketch) Moderator
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Technical Paper Presenter
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