Publications

2007

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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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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Ching-Kuang Shene,
Digital Cameras: Concepts, Techniques, and Theory,
Scholars Book, Co., Taipei, Taiwan, May, 2007 (766 pages).
ISBN 978-957-499-803-6
(in Traditional Chinese, see here for more details)
2005

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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Ching-Kuang Shene,
Race Conditions and Semaphores,
in William Stallings, Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, fifth edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005, pp. 734-743.

Ching-Kuang Shene,
100 Selected Well-Known Problems, China Machine Press, Beijing, China, 2005.
(This is the Simplified Chinese version of the revised edition published in 2002 by Scholars Book Co., Taipei, Taiwan.)
2004

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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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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John Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
Toward an Intuitive and Interesting Theory Course: The First Step of a Road Map,
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 20 (2004), No. 1 (October), pp. 124-135.
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2003

Steve Carr, Jean Mayo and Ching-Kuang Shene,
ThreadMentor: A Pedagogical Tool for Multithreaded Programming,
ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing,
Vol. 3, Issue 1, March 2003.
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Steve Carr, Changpeng Fang, Timothy R. Jozwowski, Jean Mayo, and Ching-Kuang Shene,
ConcurrentMentor: A Visualization System for Distributed Programming Education,
The 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 23-26, 2003, pp. 1676-1682.
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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

Ching-Kuang Shene,
Multithreaded Programming Can Strengthen an Operating Systems Course,
Computer Science Education Journal, Vol. 12 (2002), No. 4 (December), pp. 275-299.
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Ching-Kuang Shene,
Teaching and Learning Computer Graphics Made Easy with GraphicsMentor,
Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning, October, 2002.
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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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Steve Carr, Ping Chen, Timothy R. Jozwowski, Jean Mayo, and Ching-Kuang Shene,
Channels, Visualization, and Topology Editor,
ACM 7th ITiCSE 2002 Conference, University of Aarhus, Denmark, June 24-26, 2002, pp. 106-110.
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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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Steve Carr, Changpeng Fang, Tim Jozwowski, Jean Mayo and Ching-Kuang Shene,
A Communication Library to Support Concurrent Programming Courses,
ACM 33rd Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Northern Kentucky, February 27 - March 3, 2002, pp. 360-364.
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Ching-Kuang Shene,
100 Selected Well-Known Problems, revised edition, Scholars Book Co., Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.

Ching-Kuang Shene,
The Fortran Programming Language, revised edition, Scholars Book Co., Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.
2001

Steve Carr, Jean Mayo and Ching-Kuang Shene,
Race Conditions: A Case Study,
The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 17 (2001), No. 1 (October), pp. 88-102.
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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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2000

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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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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Steve Carr and Ching-Kuang Shene,
A Portable Class Library for Teaching Multithreaded Programming,
ACM 5th ITiCSE 2000 Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, July 11-13, 2000, pp. 124-127.
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Michael Bedy, Steve Carr, Xianglong Huang and Ching-Kuang Shene,
A Visualization System for Multithreaded Programming,
ACM 31st Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Austin, Texas, March 8 - 12, 2000, pp. 1-5.
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1999

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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Michael Bedy, Steve Carr, Xianglong Huang and Ching-Kuang Shene,
The Design and Construction of a User-Level Kernel for Teaching Multithreaded Programming,
29^th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education, November 10-13, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Vol. II (1999), pp. (13a3-24)-(13a3-29).
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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.
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Yan Zhou, Yuan Zhao, John L. Lowther and Ching-Kuang Shene,
Teaching Surface Design Made Easy,
ACM 30th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 24 - 28, 1999, pp. 222-226.
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1998

Ching-Kuang Shene,
Blending Two Cones with Dupin Cyclides,
Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 15 (1998), No. 7, pp. 643-673.

Steve Carr and Ching-Kuang Shene,
The Design of a Multithreaded Programming Course and its Accompanying Software Tools,
The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 14 (1998), No. 1 (November), pp. 12 - 24.
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Ching-Kuang Shene,
Multithreaded Programming in an Introduction to Operating Systems Course,
ACM 29th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February 26 - March 1, 1998, pp. 242 - 246.
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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

Ching-Kuang Shene,
An Analysis of Two in-place Array Rotation Algorithms,
The Computer Journal, Vol. 40 (1997), No. 9, pp. 541-546.

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.

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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1996

Ching-Kuang Shene,
A Comparative Study of Linked List Sorting Algorithms,
ACM SIG 3C Online, Vol. 3 (1996), No. 2 (April), pp. 4-9.
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1995

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.

Julie Tillison and Ching-Kuang Shene,
On Generating Worst-Cases for the Insertion Sort,
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 27 (1995), No. 6 (June), pp. 57-58.
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1994

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ching-Kuang Shene,
Equations of Cylinders and Cones,
in Graphics Gems IV, edited by Paul Heckbert, Academic Press, 1994, pp. 321-323.

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

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.

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

Ching-Kuang Shene,
On the Circles of Apollonious Associated with a Triangle, Journal of Geometry, Vol. 44 (1992), No. 1/2, pp. 171-176.

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.

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.