John F. Hughes

About John F. Hughes

Affiliations

Brown University

Awards and Recognition

ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2025

SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions

Chair

SIGGRAPH 2002: Technical Papers

Committee Member

SIGGRAPH 2001: Technical Papers

Jury Member

SIGGRAPH 2000: Technical Papers

Conference Contributions

Competitions Participated

SIGGRAPH Bowl III

SIGGRAPH 1998

[Competitions]

Contributor(s):

• Florian Kainz
• Michael Cohen

Learning

Education

Mathematics Education Using Computer Graphics

SIGGRAPH 1991

[Education]

Organizer(s):

• Steven L. Tanimoto

Presenter(s):

• John F. Hughes
• Cleve Moler
• J. Jerry Uhl
• James F. Blinn

Talks-Sketches

Implementation details of SmoothSketch: 3D free-form shapes from complex sketches

SIGGRAPH 2006

[Talks-Sketches]

Presenter(s):

• Olga A. Karpenko
• John F. Hughes

Inferring 3D free-form shapes from contour drawings

SIGGRAPH 2005

[Talks-Sketches]

Presenter(s):

• Olga A. Karpenko
• John F. Hughes

A Suggestive Interface for 3D Drawing

SIGGRAPH 2001

[Talks-Sketches]

Presenter(s):

• Takeo Igarashi
• John F. Hughes

Technical Papers

Line drawings via abstracted shading

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Yunjin Lee
• Lee Markosian
• Seungyong Lee
• John F. Hughes

SmoothSketch: 3D free-form shapes from complex sketches

SIGGRAPH 2006

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Olga A. Karpenko
• John F. Hughes

As-rigid-as-possible shape manipulation

SIGGRAPH 2005

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Takeo Igarashi
• Tomer Moscovich
• John F. Hughes

Defocus video matting

SIGGRAPH 2005

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Morgan McGuire
• Wojciech Matusik
• Hanspeter Pfister
• John F. Hughes
• Frédo Durand

Clothing manipulation

SIGGRAPH 2003

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Takeo Igarashi
• John F. Hughes

WYSIWYG NPR: drawing strokes directly on 3D models

SIGGRAPH 2002

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Robert D. Kalnins
• Lee Markosian
• Barbara J. Meier
• Michael A. Kowalski
• Joseph C. Lee
• Philip L. Davidson
• Matthew Webb
• John F. Hughes
• Adam Finkelstein

Art-based rendering of fur, grass, and trees

SIGGRAPH 1999

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Michael A. Kowalski
• Lee Markosian
• J.D. Northrup
• Lubomir Bourdev
• Ronen Barzel
• Loring S. Holden
• John F. Hughes

Skin: a constructive approach to modeling free-form shapes

SIGGRAPH 1999

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Lee Markosian
• Jonathan (Jon) David Cohen
• Thomas Crulli
• John F. Hughes

Multiperspective panoramas for cel animation

SIGGRAPH 1997

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Daniel Wood
• Adam Finkelstein
• John F. Hughes
• Craig E. Thayer
• David H. Salesin

Orientable textures for image-based pen-and-ink illustration

SIGGRAPH 1997

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Michael P. Salisbury
• John F. Hughes
• David H. Salesin
• Mike Wong

Real-time nonphotorealistic rendering

SIGGRAPH 1997

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Lee Markosian
• Michael A. Kowalski
• Daniel Goldstein
• Samuel J. Trychin
• John F. Hughes
• Lubomir Bourdev

SKETCH: an interface for sketching 3D scenes

SIGGRAPH 1996

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Robert (Bob) Zeleznik
• Kenneth P. Herndon
• John F. Hughes

Modeling surfaces of arbitrary topology using manifolds

SIGGRAPH 1995

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Cindy M. Grimm
• John F. Hughes

An interactive 3D toolkit for constructing 3D widgets

SIGGRAPH 1993

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Robert (Bob) Zeleznik
• Kenneth P. Herndon
• Daniel C. Robbins
• Nate Huang
• Tom Meyer
• Noah Parker
• John F. Hughes

Autocalibration for virtual environments tracking hardware

SIGGRAPH 1993

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Stefan Gottschalk
• John F. Hughes

Direct manipulation of free-form deformations

SIGGRAPH 1992

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• William M. Hsu
• John F. Hughes
• Henry Kaufman

Scheduled Fourier volume morphing

SIGGRAPH 1992

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• John F. Hughes

Smooth interpolation of orientations with angular velocity constraints using quaternions

SIGGRAPH 1992

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Alan H. Barr
• Bena Currin
• Steven Gabriel
• John F. Hughes

An object-oriented framework for the integration of interactive animation techniques

SIGGRAPH 1991

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Robert (Bob) Zeleznik
• D. Brookshire Conner
• Matthias M. Wloka
• Daniel G. Aliaga
• Nathan T. Huang
• Philip Hubbard
• Brian Knep
• Henry Kaufman
• John F. Hughes
• Andries van Dam

Sculpting: an interactive volumetric modeling technique

SIGGRAPH 1991

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Tinsley Galyean
• John F. Hughes

Constructive solid geometry for polyhedral objects

SIGGRAPH 1986

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• David H. Laidlaw
• W. Benjamin Trumbore
• John F. Hughes

Courses Organized

“Plausible Simulation” by Chenney, Fedkiw and Popović

Other Information

Roles

ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member

Competition Participant

Course Organizer

Course Presenter

Talk (Sketch) Presenter

Technical Paper Presenter

Technical Papers Jury Member

Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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