Graphics & User Interfaces

Paper coauthored by Changxi Zheng is Best Paper at Symposium on Computer Animation

Deployable 3D Linkages with Collision Avoidance describes a method for creating Hoberman-like mechanisms out of arbitrary 3D models. The method, which requires little user input, automatically avoids collisions among parts so object can expand and contract.

Method reduces VR sickness by subtly altering user’s field of view in response to “motion”

The research, done by Steven K. Feiner and Ajoy Fernandes, has application for consumer head-worn VR displays.

How things coil

Discrete elastic rods, used for hair simulation here, are also being used to predict the coiling of undersea communication cables.

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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.