Computer Graphics, Visualization and Geometric Computing Group Department of Computer Science Michigan Technological University

Acknowledgments This project and its accompanying software tools development are supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers CCR-9696084 (formerly CCR-9410707), DUE-9653244, DUE-9952621, DUE-0127401, OCI-0905008, IIS-1017935 and by a Michigan Research Excellence Fund 1998-1999.

Current Faculty Members:

Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene

Dr. Chaoli Wang

Dr. John L. Lowther (retired)

Current Graduate Students:

Yi Gu

YiFei Li

Jun Ma

Hector Villa-Martinez

Jun Tao

Former Group Members:

Tin-Tin Yu

Bryan Neperud

John Fisher

Dejan Nikolic

Budirijanto Purnomo

Yuan Zhao

Yan Zhou

Related Course Material:

CS3621 Introduction to Computing with Geometry

CS5611 Advanced Computer Graphics

Publications:

2012

1. Jun Tao, Jun Ma, Melissa Keranen, Jean Mayo and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   ECVisual: A Visualization Tool for Elliptic Curve Based Ciphers,
   ACM 43rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Raleigh, North Carolina, Feb 29-Mar 3, 2012. (to appear)
2. Hongfeng Yu, Chaoli Wang, Ching-Kuang Shene, and Jacqueline H. Chen,
   Hierarchical Streamline Bundles,
   IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (to appear)
3. Kun-Chuan Feng, Chaoli Wang, Han-Wei Shen, and Tong-Yee Lee,
   Coherent Time-Varying Graph Drawing with Multi-Focus+Context Interaction,
   IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (to appear)

2011

1. Yi Gu and Chaoli Wang,
   TransGraph: Hierarchical Exploration of Transition Relationships in Time-Varying Volumetric Data,
   IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization/Information Visualization 2011), Vol. 17(2011), No. 12, pp. 2015-2024.
2. Jun Ma, Jun Tao, Chaoli Wang, and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Streamline Selection and Viewpoint Selection via Information Channel,
   IEEE VisWeek Visualization Posters 2011, Providence, RI, Oct 2011.
3. Chaoli Wang, Hongfeng Yu, Ray W. Grout, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Jacqueline H. Chen,
   Analyzing Information Transfer in Time-Varying Multivariate Data,
   Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2011, Hong Kong, China, pages 99-106, Mar 2011.
4. Cheng-Kai Chen, Chaoli Wang, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Andrew T. Wittenberg,
   Static Correlation Visualization for Large Time-Varying Volume Data,
   Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2011, Hong Kong, China, pages 27-34, Mar 2011.
5. Yu-Shuen Wang, Chaoli Wang, Tong-Yee Lee, and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   Feature-Preserving Volume Data Reduction and Focus+Context Visualization,
   IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17(2011), No. 2(Feb), pp. 171-181.
6. Chaoli Wang and Han-Wei Shen,
   Information Theory in Scientific Visualization,
   Entropy (Special Issue on Advances in Information Theory), Vol. 13(2011), No. 1 (Jan), pp. 254-273.
7. Jun Tao, Jun Ma, Melissa Keranen, Jean Mayo and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   DESvisual: A Visualization Tool for the DES Cipher,
   Journal of Computing Sciences in College, Vol. 27 (2011) No. 1 (October), pp. 81-89.

2010

1. Yi Gu and Chaoli Wang,
   A Study of Hierarchical Correlation Clustering for Scientific Volume Data,
   Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing 2010, Las Vegas, NV, pages 437-446, Nov 2010.
2. Hongfeng Yu, Chaoli Wang, Ching-Kuang Shene, and Jacqueline H. Chen,
   Hierarchical Streamline Bundles for Visualizing 2D Flow Fields,
   IEEE VisWeek Posters 2010, Salt Lake City, UT, Oct 2010.
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3. Hiroshi Akiba, Chaoli Wang, and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   AniViz: A Template-Based Animation Tool for Volume Visualization,
   IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 30 (2010), No. 5 (Sep/Oct), pp. 61-71.
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4. Hongfeng Yu, Chaoli Wang, Ray W. Grout, Jacqueline H. Chen, and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   In Situ Visualization for Large-Scale Combustion Simulations,
   IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 30 (2010), No. 3 (May/Jun), pp 45-57.
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5. Jishang Wei, Chaoli Wang, Hongfeng Yu, and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   A Sketch-Based Interface for Classifying and Visualizing Vector Fields,
   Proceedings of IEEE VGTC Pacific Visualization Symposium 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 129-136, Mar 2010.
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6. Chaoli Wang, Hongfeng Yu, and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   Application-Driven Compression for Visualizing Large-Scale Time-Varying Data,
   IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 30 (2010), No. 1 (Jan/Feb), pp. 59-69.
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2009

1. Jeffrey Sukharev, Chaoli Wang, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Andrew T. Wittenberg,
   Correlation Study of Time-Varying Multivariate Climate Data Sets,
   Proceedings of IEEE VGTC Pacific Visualization Symposium 2009, Beijing, China, pages 161-168, Apr 2009.
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2. Kwan-Liu Ma, Chaoli Wang, Hongfeng Yu, Kenneth Moreland, Jian Huang, and Robert Ross,
   Next-Generation Visualization Technologies: Enabling Discoveries at Extreme Scale,
   SciDAC Review, Vol. 12 (2009), Spring, pp. 12-21.
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2008

1. Hongfeng Yu, Chaoli Wang, and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   Massively Parallel Volume Rendering Using 2-3 Swap Image Compositing,
   Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference 2008, Austin, TX, Nov 2008.
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2. Chaoli Wang and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   Information and Knowledge Assisted Analysis and Visualization of Large-Scale Data,
   Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Ultrascale Visualization Workshop 2008, Austin, TX, pages 1-8, Nov 2008.
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3. Chaoli Wang, Hongfeng Yu, and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   Importance-Driven Time-Varying Data Visualization,
   IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization/Information Visualization 2008), Vol. 14 (2008), No. 6 (Nov/Dec), pp. 1547-1554.
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4. Jeffrey Sukharev, Chaoli Wang, and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   Statistical Analysis and Visualization of Time-Varying Multivariate Climate Data Sets,
   IEEE Visualization Knowledge-Assisted Visualization Workshop 2008, Columbus, OH, Oct 2008.
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5. Kwan-Liu Ma and Chaoli Wang,
   Social-Aware Collaborative Visualization for Large Scientific Projects,
   Proceedings of International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems 2008, Irvine, CA, pp. 190-195, May 2008.
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6. Chaoli Wang and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   A Statistical Approach to Volume Data Quality Assessment,
   IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14 (2008), No. 3 (May/Jun), pp. 590-602.
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7. Miklo Lysenko, Roshan D'Souza and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Improved Binary Space Partition Merging,
   CAD, Vol. 40 (2009), No. 12 (December), pp. 1113-1120.
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2007

1. Hongfeng Yu, Chaoli Wang, and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   Parallel Hierarchical Visualization of Large Time-Varying 3D Vector Fields,
   Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference 2007, Reno, NV, Nov 2007.
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2. Chaoli Wang, Hongfeng Yu, and Kwan-Liu Ma,
   Knowledge-Assisted Visualization of Turbulent Combustion Simulations,
   IEEE Visualization Knowledge-Assisted Visualization Workshop 2007, Sacramento, CA, Oct 2007.
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3. Kwan-Liu Ma, Chaoli Wang, Hongfeng Yu, and Anna Tikhonova,
   In-Situ Processing and Visualization for Ultrascale Simulations,
   Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Proceedings of DOE SciDAC Conference 2007), Vol. 78 (2007) 012043, Boston, MA, Jun 2007.
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4. Chaoli Wang, Antonio Garcia, and Han-Wei Shen,
   Interactive Level-of-Detail Selection Using Image-Based Quality Metric for Large Volume Visualization,
   IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13 (2007), No. 1 (Jan/Feb), pp. 122-134.
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5. Tin-Tin Yu, John Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   A Tool for Demonstrating the Interaction among Lighting/Material Parameters and Potential Problems in Polygon-Based Rendering,
   Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 23 (2007), No. 1, pp. 45-53.
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6. Bryan Neperud, John Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Visualizing and Animating the Winged-Edge Data Structure,
   Computers & Graphics,, Vol. 31 (2007), No. 6 (December), pp. 877-886.
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2006

1. Chaoli Wang and Han-Wei Shen,
   LOD Map - A Visual Interface for Navigating Multiresolution Volume Visualization,
   IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2006), Vol. 12 (2006), No. 5 (Sep/Oct), pp. 1029-1036.
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2. Sean Ahern, Jamison R. Daniel, Jinzhu Gao, George Ostrouchov, Ross J. Toedte, and Chaoli Wang,
   Multi-Scale Data Visualization for Computational Astrophysics and Climate Dynamics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
   Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Proceedings of DOE SciDAC Conference 2006), Vo9l. 46 (2006), pp. 550-555, Denver, CO.
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2005

1. Chaoli Wang and Han-Wei Shen,
   Hierarchical Navigation Interface: Leveraging Multiple Coordinated Views for Level-of-Detail Multiresolution Volume Rendering of Large Scientific Data Sets,
   Proceedings of International Conference on Information Visualisation 2005, London, England, pp. 259-267, Jul 2005.
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2. Chaoli Wang, Jinzhu Gao, Liya Li, and Han-Wei Shen,
   A Multiresolution Volume Rendering Framework for Large-Scale Time-Varying Data Visualization,
   Proceedings of International Workshop on Volume Graphics 2005, Stony Brook, NY, pp. 11-19, Jun 2005.
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3. Jinzhu Gao, Chaoli Wang, Liya Li, and Han-Wei Shen,
   A Parallel Multiresolution Volume Rendering Algorithm for Large Data Visualization,
   Parallel Computing (Special Issue on Parallel Graphics and Visualization), Vol. 31 (2005), No. 2 (Feb), pp. 185-204.
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4. Tin-Tin Yu, John Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Photon Mapping Made Easy,
   ACM 36th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, February 23-27, 2005, pp. 201-205.
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2004

1. Chaoli Wang, Jinzhu Gao, and Han-Wei Shen,
   Parallel Multiresolution Volume Rendering of Large Data Sets with Error-Guided Load Balancing,
   Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 2004, Grenoble, France, pp. 23-30, Jun 2004.
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2. John Fisher, John Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Curve and Surface Interpolation and Approximation: Knowledge Unit and Software Tool,
   ACM 9th ITiCSE 2004 Conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, June 28-30, 2004, pp. 146-150.
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3. John Fisher, John Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   If You Know B-Splines Well, You Also Know NURBS!
   ACM 35th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Norfolk, Virginia, March 3-7, 2004, pp. 343-347.
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2003

1. Jonathan Woodring, Chaoli Wang, and Han-Wei Shen,
   High Dimensional Direct Rendering of Time-Varying Volumetric Data,
   Proceedings of IEEE Visualization Conference 2003, Seattle, WA, pp. 417-424, Oct 2003.
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2. John Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Teaching B-splines Is Not Difficult!,
   ACM 34th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Reno, Nevada, February 19-23, 2003, pp. 381-385.
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2002

1. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Teaching and Learning Computer Graphics Made Easy with GraphicsMentor,
   Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning, October, 2002.
   Click here to visit the journal, and here for this paper.
2. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Raytracing as a Tool for Learning Computer Graphics,
   ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education 2002, Boston, November 6-9, 2002, Vol. III, pp. (S4G-7)-(S4G-13).
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3. Dejan Nikolic and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   GraphicsMentor:A Tool for Learning Graphics Fundamentals,
   ACM 33rd Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Northern Kentucky, February 27 - March 3, 2002, pp. 242-246.
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2001

1. John L. Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Computing with Geometry as an Undergraduate Course: A Three-Year Experience,
   ACM 32nd Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February 21-25, 2001, pp. 119-123.
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   Download presentation slides (PDF)

2000

1. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Do Blending and Offsetting Commute for Dupin Cyclides?
   Computer Aided Geometric Design,
   Vol. 17 (2000), No. 9, pp. 891-910.
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2. John L. Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Rendering + Modeling + Animation + Postprocessing = Computer Graphics,
   The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 16 (2000), No. 1 (November), pp. 20-28.
   Reprinted in Computer Graphics, Vol. 34 (2000), No. 4 (November), pp. 15-18.
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1999

1. Yuan Zhao, Yan Zhou, John L. Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Cross-Sectional Design: A Tool for Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Courses,
   29^th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education, November 10-13, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Vol. II (1999), pp. (12b3-1)-(12b3-6).
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2. John L. Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   DesignMentor: An Interactive Environment for Learning the Fundamentals of Curve and Surface Design,
   ASEE 54th Annual Engineering Design Graphics Mid-Year Conference, November 6-9, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1999, pp. 193-199.
   Download Compressed PostScript File and JPEG figures (tar.gz)
3. Yan Zhou, Yuan Zhao, John L. Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Teaching Surface Design Made Easy,
   ACM 30th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 24 - March 28, 1999, pp. 222-226.
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1998

1. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Blending Two Cones with Dupin Cyclides,
   Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 15 (1998), No. 7, pp. 643-673.
2. Yuan Zhao, John L. Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   A Tool for Teaching Curve Design,
   ACM 29th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February 26 - March 1, 1998, pp. 97 - 101.
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1997

1. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   An Analysis of Two in-place Array Rotation Algorithms,
   The Computer Journal, Vol. 40 (1997), No. 9, pp. 541-546.
2. John L. Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Geometric Computing in the Undergraduate Computer Science Curricula,
   The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 13 (1997), No. 2 (November), pp. 50-61.
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3. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Blending with Affine and Projective Dupin Cyclides,
   in Special Issue on Computer Aided Geometric Design of Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, Vol. 5 (1997), No. 1 & 2 (March & June), pp. 121-152.

1995

1. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Computing the Intersection of a Line and a Cone,
   in Graphics Gems V, edited by Alan Paeth, Academic Press, 1995, pp. 227-231.

1994

1. Ching-Kuang Shene and John L. Johnstone,
   On the Lower Degree Intersections of Two Natural Quadrics,
   ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 13 (1994), No. 4 (October), pp.400-424.
2. John K. Johnstone and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Dupin Cyclides as Blending Surfaces,
   in Mathematics of Surfaces V, edited by R. B. Fisher, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp.3-29.
3. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Test for Intersection Between a Plane and a Connected Compact Polyhedron,
   Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 26 (1994), No. 7, pp. 585-588.
4. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Computing the Intersection of a Line and a Cylinder,
   in Graphics Gems IV, edited by Paul Heckbert, Academic Press, 1994, pp. 353-355.
5. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Equations of Cylinders and Cones,
   in Graphics Gems IV, edited by Paul Heckbert, Academic Press, 1994, pp. 321-323.
6. Ching-Kuang Shene and John K. Johnstone,
   Computing the Intersection of a Plane and Revolute Quadric,
   Computer & Graphics, Vol. 18 (1994), No. 1, pp. 47-59.

1993

1. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   A Fast and Robust Algorithm for Planar Intersection of Two Cones,
   ASME Advances in Design Automation 1993, Vol. DE-Vol. 65-2 (1993), pp. 377-387.
2. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Planar Intersection, Common Inscribed Sphere and Dupin Blending Cyclides (Extended Abstract),
   Second ACM/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, 1993, pp. 487-488.

1992

1. Ching-Kuang Shene,
   On the Circles of Apollonious Associated with a Triangle, Journal of Geometry, Vol. 44 (1992), No. 1/2, pp. 171-176.
2. John K. Johnstone and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Computing the Intersection of a Plane and a Natural Quadric,
   Computers & Graphics, Vol. 16 (1992), No. 2 (June), pp. 179-186.
3. Ching-Kuang Shene and John K. Johnstone,
   On the Planar Intersection of Natural Quadrics,
   ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling Foundations and CAD/CAM Applications, June, 1991, pp. 233-242.

Posters:

1. John L. Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   Computing with Geometry as an Undergraduate Course,
   a poster in ACM 5th ITiCSE 2000 Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, July 11-13, 2000, p. 193.
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2. John L. Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
   DesignMentor: A Pedagogical Tool for Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,
   a poster in ACM 5th ITiCSE 2000 Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, July 11-13, 2000, p. 193.
   Download PDF File

Workshops:

1. Ching-Kuang Shene and John L. Lowther,
   Teaching Curve and Surface Design in Computer Graphics and Related Courses,
   a workshop at 30th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 24 - 28, 1999.
   Click here to review its content

Graduate Student Theses, Reports and Other:

1. John Fisher,
   Visualizing the Connection Among Convex Hull, Voronoi Diagram and Delaunay Triangulation,
   in The 37th Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium,
   University of Minnesota, Morris, April 16-17, 2004.
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2. Tim Jozwowski,
   Real Time Photon Mapping (MS Thesis), May 2002
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3. Yuan Zhao,
   Problems in Surface Intersection, Representation and Construction (MS Thesis), August 1998
   Download Compressed (tar.gz) File
4. Yan Zhou,
   Surface Interpolation and Approximation (MS Project Report), February 1999
   Download Compressed (tar.gz) File
5. Yan Zhou and Yuan Zhao,
   An Interactive Surface Design Tool,
   Student Poster, ACM 29th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February 26 - March 1, 1998, p. 386 (Abstract).
   Download PS File (extended abstract, 2 pages)

Undergraduate Work:

1. Tin-Tin Yu,
   Depth of Field Implementation with OpenGL,
   Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 20 (2004), No. 1 (October), pp. 136-146.
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2. Dejan Nikolic,
   A Physical Model for Cloth Movement Animation,
   30th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 24 - March 28, 1999, (undergraduate student poster)
   Download Compressed PS (.ps.gz) File

Software Systems:

1. DesignMentor is available free. It consists of two components, one for curve design while the other for surface design. The user manuals are only available online. Select the one you wish to review:

   A User Guide to the Curve Subsystem of DesignMentor

   A User Guide to the Surface Subsystem of DesignMentor

   DesignMentor V2 is available here. Older V1 version is available on request.
2. Two prototype systems designed for visualizaing the DES (DESvisual) and elliptic curve over finite field (ECvisual)ciphers are available. Note that this is not the final versions. Click here for the details.

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