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Conference Presentations

Simplifying complex environments using incremental textured depth meshes, Andy Wilson and Dinesh Manocha, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2003
Sensation preserving simplification for haptic rendering, Miguel A. Otaduy and Ming C. Lin, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2003
Tar archive with videos (66 MB)
CLODs: Dual hierarchies for multi-resolution collision detection, Miguel A. Otaduy and Ming C. Lin, ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2003
Efficient fitting and rendering of large scattered data sets using subdivision surfaces, Vincent Scheib, Jorg Haber, Ming C. Lin, and Hans-Peter Seidel, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2002
ArtNova: Touch-enabled 3D model design, Mark Foskey, Miguel A. Otaduy, and Ming C. Lin, Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, 2002
Compressed, with videos (55 MB)
Self-contained video shown at end of presentation (63 MB)
Six-degree-of-freedom haptic display using localized contact computations, Young J. Kim, Miguel A. Otaduy, Ming C. Lin, and Dinesh Manocha, Haptic Interfaces For Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 2002
Simulation level of detail for automatic simplification of particle system dynamics, David O'Brien, Susan M. Fisher, and Ming C. Lin, 2001
Accurate and fast proximity queries between polyhedra using convex surface decomposition, Stephen A. Ehmann and Ming C. Lin, 2001
Deformable distance fields for simulation of non-penetrating flexible bodies, Susan M. Fisher and Ming C. Lin, 2001
Advanced character physics: The fysix engine, Game Developers Conference, 2001
Fast proximity queries for large game environments, Ming C. Lin, Game Developers Conference, 2000
Fast and simple 2D geometric proximity queries using graphics hardware (Videos, Images), Kenneth E. Hoff III, Andrew Zaferakis, Ming C. Lin, and Dinesh Manocha, 2001
Interactive motion planning using hardware accelerated computation of generalized Voronoi diagrams Kenneth E. Hoff III, Tim Culver, John Keyser, Ming C. Lin, and Dinesh Manocha, 2000
Accelerated proximity queries between convex polyhedra by multi-level Voronoi marching, Stephen A. Ehmann and Ming C. Lin, 2000
A Voronoi-based hybrid motion planner, Mark Foskey, Maxim Garber, Ming C. Lin, and Dinesh Manocha, 2001
Movie 1 (7 MB), movie 2 (1 MB), movie 3 (2 MB), movie 4 (5 MB), movie 5 (3 MB), movie 6 (2 MB), movie 7 (4 MB), Movie8 (5 MB)
Compressed archive of PowerPoint file and movies (22 MB)
Fast and accurate computations with algebraic primitives and predicates, Mark Foskey and Dinesh Manocha, 2001
Six degree-of-freedom haptic display of polygonal models, Arthur D. Gregory, Ajith Mascarenhas, Stephen A. Ehmann, Ming C. Lin, and Dinesh Manocha, 2000
User-centric viewpoint computation for haptic exploration and manipulation, Miguel A. Otaduy and Ming C. Lin, 2001
Flash animation, movie 1(30 MB), movie 2 (29 MB), movie 3 (21 MB), movie 4 (9 MB), movie 5 (52 MB)

Dissertation Defenses

Computing the medial axis of a polyhedron reliably and efficiently, Tim Culver, 2000
Exact boundary evaluation of curved solids (ESOLID), John Keyser, 2000
Spatially encoded image-space simplifications for interactive walkthrough, Andy Wilson, 2002

G-lunch

DAB: Haptic painting with 3D virtual brushes, William V. Baxter III and Vincent Scheib, 2001
Simulation level of detail and artificial intelligence, Maxim Garber, 2001
High fidelity virtual touch: Algorithms and applications, Ming C. Lin, 2000
Real-time photorealistic terrain lighting, multi-resolution subdivision surfaces, character animation, Vincent Scheib, 2001
The Cell: IBM's new "supercomputer-on-a-chip", Paul Zimmons, 2003

Papers Database

Research Reviews

Handling complex datasets, Dinesh Manocha, 2001