Graphics & User Interfaces
In a step toward controlling vibrations, researchers have created an algorithm that automatically optimizes the shape of 2D and 3D objects to control the frequencies and amplitudes of the sounds generated when those objects vibrate.
Discrete elastic rods, used for hair simulation here, are also being used to predict the coiling of undersea communication cables.
Eitan Grinspun and Changxi Zheng worked with MIT researchers to create InstantCAD, a plugin providing real-time feedback on how design changes affect performance.
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Graphics and user interface research includes animation, geometry processing, computational photography, augmented reality & virtual environments, rendering, human-computer interaction, acquisition of geometry and material properties, 3D user interfaces, computational mechanics, knowledge-based design of graphics and multimedia, mobile and wearable computing, computer games, information visualization, video and image processing, shape modeling.
Computer Vision and Graphics Center 
Columbia Computer Graphics Group 
Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory 
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