User:Skimama/Alyn Rockwood

 Alyn P. Rockwoodwas born 26 November 1946 in Centerville Utah to Esther Pearson Brown and Charles Perry Rockwood. Both parents were in education. His father died in 1949. His mother moved him and his only brother, Charles, to a new house on the property in 1950. His childhood included many amusing stories. One of which was a jeep trip in his teens. Alyn and his good friends skipped church to take the old WWII jeep up in the hills for some 4 wheeling. The boys were going too fast over a dip and it threw them all out of thier seats. when they landed with a hard bump the driver immediatly stooppped the jeep and jumped out. he was searching on the ground for something. the others got out to see what was wrong. He kept saying 'my teeth' and when he looked up he was missing his front teeth. It turns out his friend had come down on the top of the windshield frame and forced his teeth up into his gums. the teeth mark in the paint on the jeep is still there to this day.

Alyn graduated from Davis High School in 1965. He was offered college scholarships in American football, basketball and biology. Before graduating from Brigham Young University he served a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. He served for 2 years in the Vienna, Austria mission. Alyn earned a degree from BYU in Mathmatics in 1972?. the rest of his education is includded in his resume.

While attending BYU he met and married his first wife Mary F. Searle. Together they had 5 children. The most important of which is his daughter Anneka Rockwood Brimhall because she simply ROCKS!

in 2004ish while teaching at the CO school of Mines he met his second wife Kun Gau. They have been married 5 years? and have one young daughter.

Alyn is now the Associate Director, Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization Research Center and Professor of Applied Mathematics at Kaust University is Saudi Arabia. see link. []

RESUME

Expertise

Computer Graphics, Geometric Design and Modeling, Scientific Visualization, Geometric Algebra, Image Processing,

Education

Ph.D.   Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1986. Dissertation - "Blending Surfaces in Solid Geometric Modeling." Supervisor: Prof. M.J.D. Powell, Sc.D., F.R.S. M.Sc. Dept. of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1973. Supervisor: Prof. Helaman Ferguson B.Sc. Dept. of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1971. (magna cum laude)

Experience

2006-present  Founder and CTO, FreeDesign Inc. Developing a new generation geometric modeler (www.fredesign-inc.com). Concurrently serving as ACM SIGGRAPH Vice President and SIGGRAPH Asia CAG Chair.

2005    Co-founder, Geomerics Ltd. A Cambridge, U.K. company developing computer graphic solutions for the           computer gaming industry (www.geomerics.com)

2001-2005   Professor, Assistant Dept. Head, and Director of Graduate Studies, Colorado School of Mines,                          Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Golden, CO. Concurrently served as ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Conference Chair,                         arguably the world's largest technical conference in computer science..

2000-2001	  Visiting Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA. engaged in fundamental research in computer graphics and modeling technologies,                          creating patents, mentoring junior researchers and evangelizing for the lab.

1997-1999   Chief Scientist, Power Take Off Software Inc., Longmont CO                          Charged with conceptualizing and developing original geometry for a new geometric modeler                          to be used in design, styling and animation. Active in technical marketing and strategic planning. This project's main client was Proctor and Gamble's design department.

Major Conferences Committee Service: Served on numerous conference committees, including                          Papers' Chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH99 Conference on 3D Graphics and Interactive Techniques,                          the premier forum in its area. This assignment required managing a technical program committee of                         40 experts and obtaining over 1800 reviews on 300 papers.

1994-1999    Tenured Associate Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ                          Taught graduate courses in image processing, computer graphics and geometric design. Supervised masters and Ph.D. level graduate students. Served as project director for a major                           research grant in brain imaging with implications for Alzheimer's disease.

1990-1994    Associate Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe, ASU. Taught graduate courses in geometric design and computer graphics. Supervised masters and Ph.D. level graduate students. Consulted with Spatial Technologies, Inc. on CAD/CAM research.

1988-1990     Research Group, Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA                          Developed real time trimmed surface rendering methods for the SGI graphics workstations group. These techniques have become the industrial standard for surface rendering and the basis for OpenGL                          and GL NURBS display routines.

1986-1988     Senior Engineer, Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT. Led a research team to develop direct surface and volume rendering techniques specifically for                         CAD/CAM and geo-science modeling, funded by Exxon Product Research.

1982-1986      Research Scientist, Shape Data Ltd. (subsidiary of Evans and Sutherland), Cambridge, England. Developed the first commercially successful automatic blending and filleting methods in CAD/CAM, and led a small team to implement it in the ROMLUS II solid geometric modeler. Developed point-based rendering methods for complex surfaces.

1980-1982       Software Supervisor, Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT                            Managed the software team for the FAA Phase III acceptance project (8-10 professionals), which produced the first visual system (SP3-T) to win FAA approval for upgrade pilot training entirely on a simulator. Part of this effort resulted in the first hardware-based texturing system.

Invented and helped engineer the "Clamping" method of filtering for rapid anti-aliasing of texturing, which is used                           for flight simulation, computer games and animation systems.

1977-1979       Computer Analyst, Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT                            Developed the visual software for the first FAA Phase II certified flight simulator for pilot night training and the                            real-time run program for the NOVOVIEW/SP2 flight simulator.

1975-1977        Instructor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Taught calculus for engineers, college algebra and mathematics for secondary education majors.

1973-1975         Math and Physics Instructor, Gymnasium Oberalster, Hamburg, West Germany. Instructor in the Natural Sciences Preparatory School (in German). Grades 6 - 13

1970-1972         Research Assistant, Dept. of Math, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT                              Worked on the computer simulation of the Minuteman missiles under USAF contract. Granted secret security clearance.

Awards and Honors

National Honor Society Alvina Barton Scholarship Multiple academic undergraduate scholarships Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Pi Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honor Society Einar Andersen Graduate Fellowship Award, 1973-75 Best Teacher Award, "Nettesten Lehrer," students of Gymnasium Oberalster,     Hamburg, Germany 1973 Overseas Research Award, H.M. Government, U.K., 1983-85 Chancellor's Bursary, Cambridge University, 1983 Computer Science Dept. representative for Excellence in Teaching Award,     Arizona State University, Jan 1994 Computer Science Nominee for Best Teacher Award, Engineering Dept, ASU, 1994. Teacher Recognition Award, University Student Affairs, Arizona State University, Sept. 1994 Best paper's award, IEEE VIS98 Conference. ACM Award of Recognition, SIGGRAPH service, 2003, for SIGGRAPH Conference Chair. MacBride Honors Professor, Colorado School of Mines, 2005. AcademicKeys Who's Who in Engineering Education (WWEE) 2005: CADwire's Best New Innovative Technology, presented at COFES 2007 for the FreeDimension Geometric Modeler, which was based on my research. CADSociety "Heroes of Engineering," TV Interview: http://www.cadsociety.org/heros.html

Patent Activity

"Computer Graphics System of General Surface Rendering by Exhaustive Sampling," No. 4,625,289, Nov. 25, 1986, co-owner with Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp.

"A System for Blending Surfaces in Geometric Modeling," No. 5,251,160, Oct. 5,1993 co-inventor: John Owen, owner: Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp.

"Homogeneous Methods for Manipulating and Modeling of Objects," D. Hestenes, co-inventor, patent filed June 2000, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, No. 6,853,964, Feb. 2005.

"Computational Geometry Using Control Geometry having at Least Two Dimensions, filed       September, 2004, U.S. Patent No. 7,196,702 U.S. FreeDesign Inc, owner. April, 2007

"Computational Geometry Using Control Geometry having at Least Two Dimensions (II), filed       September, 2004,U.S. Patent No. 7,216,462 U.S. FreeDesign Inc, owner,July, 2007

"Design and Rapid Prototyping for Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields," patent filed April 2000, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. "Using Wavelet Compression to Enable View-Dependent       Progressive Volume Visualization on the Grid," A. Norton, co-inventor, patent filed August 2003.

Book Author and Editorships

How Noble in Reason, A novel, AKPeters {ublishing, Boston, 2006,

Interactive Curves and Surfaces: a Multimedia Tutorial, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 1996 with Peter Chambers

Introduction to Implicit Surfaces, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 1997, with J. Bloomenthal, C. Bajaj, J. Blinn, M. Cani-Gascule, B. and G. Wyvill.

Special issue of CAD on Visualization in CAD/CAM, 1993, v. 5, guest editor

ACM SIGGRAPH99 Conference Proceedings, editor.

Computer Graphics Forum Journal, Vol. 21, guest editor.

GMOD, jour. of geometric modeling, guest editor, to appear

ACM SIGGRAPH Papers

(In the following publications list an asterisk * indicates student co-author and a double asterisk ** a post-doc)

Rockwood, Alyn and Thomas Jensen, "Two Aspects of Domain Designing: C-infinity Curve Rendering      and Blended Map Projections," ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings, v. 15, No.3, August '81 pp. 233-242.

Norton, Alan, Alyn Rockwood and Phillip Skolmoski, "Clamping: a Method of Anti-aliasing Textured Pictures      by Bandwidth Limiting in Object Space." ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings, v. 16, No.3, July '82 pp. 1-8.

Rockwood, Alyn, Kurt Heaton and Tom Davis, "Real-Time Rendering of Trimmed Surfaces." ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings, v.23, No.3, July '89, pp. 149-156.

Ferguson, Helaman, Alyn Rockwood and Jordan Cox*, "Topological Design of Sculptured Surfaces," ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings, v.26, No.2, July1992, pp. 149-156.

Chang, YuKuang* and Alyn Rockwood, "A Generalized de Casteljau Approach to Freeform Deformation," ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings, v.28, No. 4, July 1994.

Frisken, Sarah, Ron Perry, Alyn Rockwood and Ray Jones*, "Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields:     A General Representation of Shape for Computer Graphics," ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings, July 2000.

Refereed Journal Articles

Rockwood, Alyn, "A Generalized Scanning Technique for Display of Parametrically Defined Surfaces," IEEE Computer Graphics and its Applications, Vol. 7, No.8 August, 1987, pp. 15-26.

Rockwood, Alyn, "The Displacement Method for Blending Surfaces in Solid Modelling," ACM Transactions on Graphics, Special Issue on CAD/CAM, v.8, No.4, Oct. 1989, pp. 279-292.

Ferguson, Helaman and Alyn Rockwood, "Multiperiodic Functions for Topological Design," CAGD, v. 10, July 1993, pp. 315 - 328.

Rockwood, Alyn and YuKuang Chang*, "Visualization of Freeform Volumes," CAD, 27(7), Sept. 1995.

Chambers, Peter* and Alyn Rockwood "Visualization of Solid Reaction Diffusion Systems," Komputernya Graphika, Vol. 1 no. 1, 1994, pp. 17-24 (in Russian and English).

Chang, YuKuang*, Alyn Rockwood and Eric Reiman, "Visualizing Anatomical-Function       Relationships in the Brain," SPIE Visual Data Exploration and Analysis II, Vol. 2410, Feb. 1995, pp. 32-41.

Chambers, Peter* and Alyn Rockwood, "Visualization of Solid Reaction Diffusion Systems," IEEE Computer Graphics and Its Applications, Sept. 1995, pp. 7-11.

Rockwood, Alyn, "Geometric Primitives in Computer Graphics," ACM Computing Reviews, 50th Anniversary Special Issue, 28 (1), Mar. 1996, pp. 149-151.

N. Liu*, A. Rockwood and H. Jin*, "Antialiasing by Gaussian Integration," IEEE Computer Graphics and Its Applications, May 1996, pp. 58-63.

Palacios, Antonio*, Alyn Rockwood and Lee Gross*, "Dynamics and Chaos:        the Spherical Pendulum," Computer Graphics Forum, 15 (4), Oct 1996.

Rockwood, Alyn and Jim Winget, "Three Dimensional Object Reconstruction from       Two Dimensional Images," CAD, special issue on reverse engineering, 29 (4), April 1997.

Varady, Tamas and Alyn Rockwood, "A Geometric Construction on Setback Vertex Blending," CAD, (29) 6, May 1997, pp. 413-426.

Kadi, Zafer*, and Alyn Rockwood, "Conformal Maps Defined about Polynomial Curves," CAGD, vol.14, Mar. 1998.

Scheuermann, Gerik*, Hans Hagen, Alyn Rockwood and Heinz Krueger, "Visualizing Non-linear Vector Field Topology," IEEE Trans. on       Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 4, no. 2, April, 1998.

Rockwood, Alyn and Hwa Jin Park*, "Interactive Design of Smooth Genus N Objects       Using Multiperiodic Functions and Applications,"  Int. Journal of Shape Modeling, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1999, pp. 135 - 157.

Dorman, Jeff* and Alyn Rockwood, "Surface Design Using Hand Motion with Smoothing," CAD 33 (2001) pp. 389 - 402, Special Issue on Computer Aided Design and the Arts.

T. Varady, P. BenkO*, G. Kos* and A. Rockwood, Implicit Surfaces revisited - I-Patches, Computing, 14 (2001), pp 323-335.

Norton, Alan and, A. Rockwood, "Using Wavelet Compression to Enable View-dependent      Progressive volume Visualization on the Grid," IEEE Computer Graphics and Its Applications, Special issue on the Grid, March 2003

Refereed Hardbound Archivals

Rockwood, Alyn, "Introducing Sculptured Surfaces into a Geometric Modeler," Proceedings of GM Symposium on Solid Modeling, Detroit, Plenum Press, Sept 1983.

Rockwood, Alyn, and John Owen, "Blending Surfaces in Solid Modelling." Geometric Modelling: Algorithms and New Trends. Gerald E. Farin, ed., Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA., 1987,

Owen, John and Alyn Rockwood, "Intersection of General Implicit Surfaces," Geometric Modelling: Algorithms and new Trends. Gerald E. Farin, ed., Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA., 1987.

Zhao, Yan* and Alyn Rockwood, "A Convolution Approach to N-sided Patches         and Vertex Blending," Design of Fair Curves and Surfaces: Shape Quality in Geometric Modelling and computer Aided Design, N.Sapidis (ed.) SIAM Publishing, Philadelphia, PA, 1994

Varady, Tamas and Alyn Rockwood, "Vertex Blending Based on the Setback Split," Mathematical Methods in CAGD III, M. Daehlen,T. Lyche and L. Schumaker (ed.) Academics Press, 1995, pp. 1-16.

Rockwood, Alyn and Peter Chambers*, "An Alchemist's Primer on Reaction       Diffusion Patterns, " Scientific Visualization, Overviews, Methodologies, Techniques, Nielson, Muller, Hagen (ed.), Oct. 1997

"New Algebraic Tool for Classical Geometry," In: G. Sommer (ed.), Geometric Computing with Clifford Algebra, Springer, Berlin, (2001) co-authors: David Hestenes, Hongbo Li**

" Generalized Homogeneous Coordinates for Computational Geometry," In: G. Sommer (ed.), Geometric Computing with Clifford Algebra, Springer, Berlin, (2001) co-authors: David Hestenes, Hongbo Li**

" Spherical Conformal Geometry with Geometric Algebra," In: G. Sommer (ed.), Geometric Computing withClifford Algebra, Springer, Berlin, (2001) co-authors: David Hestenes, Hongbo Li**

" A Universal Model for Conformal Geometries of Euclidean, Spherical and       Double-Hyperbolic Spaces," In: G. Sommer (ed.), Geometric Computing with Clifford Algebra, Springer, Berlin, (2001) co-authors: David Hestenes, Hongbo Li**

Scheuermann, Gerik*, Hans Hagen, Alyn Rockwood and Heinz Krueger, "Visualizing Critical Points of Arbitrary Poincare-Index, IEEE Proceedings of      Scientific Visualization, Hans Hagen, ed. Feb, 2000.

Rockwood, Alyn, "The Design of Implicit Functions for Computer Graphics," Handbook of Geometric Computing Applications in Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision,Neuralcomputing, and Robotics (Ed.) Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005 . Refereed Conference Proceedings

Rockwood, Alyn and Robert Burton "An Inexpensive Technique for Displaying Algebraic Surfaces," Graphics Techniques in Geometry and Topology, Proceedings of Special Session, American Mathematics Society, Evanston, IL, April 1977.

Rockwood, Alyn and John Owen, "Blending Surfaces in Solid Modeling." Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Anglo-Hungarian Seminar on Computer Aided Design, Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Oct. 1985.

Rockwood, Alyn, "Accurate Display of Tensor Product Isosurfaces," Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '90 Conference, San Francisco, Oct 1990.

Vaishnav, Haresh* and Alyn Rockwood, "Blending Parametric Objects by Implicit Techniques," Proceedings ACM Solid Modeling '93, May 1993.

Vaishnav, Haresh* and Alyn Rockwood, "Calculating Offsets of a Bezier Curve," Proceedings ACM Solid Modeling '93, May 1993.

Rockwood, Alyn and Hans Wolters*, "Measuring the Distance of Two Parametric Curves      by Local Implicitization," Proceedings  of IMACS World Congress on Computers and Applied Mathematics., July 94, pp 1545.

Zhao, Yan* and Alyn Rockwood, "N-sided Polynomial Surface Patches Generated from      the Convolution Concept,"  Proceedings of the Int. Pacific Graphics Conference, CADDM '94, Beijing, Aug 1994.

Rockwood, Alyn and Peter Chambers*, "Interactive Curves and Surfaces," IEEE Proceedings of Frontiers in Education, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 1996; co-author: Peter Chambers.

Scheuermann, Gerik*, Hans Hagen, Alyn Rockwood and Heinz Krueger, "Visualization of Higher Order Singularities in Vector Fields," IEEE Visualization 97 Conference. IEEE Computer Society, Oct 1997, pp. 67-74.

Kadi, Zafer* and Alyn Rockwood, "Physically Based Modeling and Visualization via      Conformal Maps about Polynomials, " Hot Topics Session of IEEE Visualizations Conference, Oct. 1997.

Kadi, Zafer* and Alyn Rockwood, "Wavelet Based Antialiasing of Computer Images," Proceedings of ISCA Int. Conference Computers and Their Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1998 pp. 299-302.

Park, Hwa Jin* and Alyn Rockwood, " Interactive Design of Smooth Genus N Objects      over a Single Domain," Proc. Of Solid Modeling International99, Aizu, Japan, May, 1999.

Alyn Rockwood and Shoeb Binderwala*, "A Toy Vector Field Based on Geometric Algebra," Proc. Appl. Geo. Alg. in Comp. Sci. and Eng. AGACSE2001, Cambridge, U.K., July 2001.

Stephen Mann and Alyn Rockwood, "Computing the Index of a 3D Singularity with Geometric Algebra," IEEE Visualization 2002 Conference. IEEE Computer Society, Oct 2002.

Rockwood, A., "Re-usable Implicit Models," SIGGRAPH2004 Sketches Program, August, 2004.

Book Chapters

"Geometric Primitives" The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook, A. Bullock, ed. CRC Press, 1996, pp. 1212-1225.

"Computing Determinacy and Unfoldings," Catastrophe Theory and its Applications, Tim Posten and Ian Stewart, Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, 1978, co-authors: Steven Carter* and Dan Olsen*.

"Data Structures in Computer Graphics" The Handbook of Data Structures, D. Mehta, ed. CRC Press, 2004.

"Geometric Primitives" The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook, A. Bullock, ed. CRC Press, 2nd edition, 2004.

Invited Articles

Rockwood, Alyn, "In an Age of Surfaces," IRIS Universe, Silicon Graphics Inc., Fall 1989.

Rockwood, Alyn "The Bicameral Mind and CAD," Guest editorial, CAD, 27 (7), Sept 1995.

Rockwood, Alyn and Janet McCandless, "Through the Looking Glass: A Synthesis of        Computer Graphics and Computer Vision," Guest editorial, IEEE Multimedia, vol. 6, no. 3, July-Sept.1999.

Rockwood, Alyn, "The Spirit of Gravity," Computer Graphics World, Viewpoint series, March 2003.

Rockwood, Alyn, "Book Review: Geometric Algebra for Physicists by Chris Doran and Antony Lasenby," Foundations of Physics, Volume 34, Number 6 (June 2004)..

Rockwood. Alyn, "An Alternative to Nurtbs," Machine Design, Feature article, April 12. 2007.

Grants

01.  "Applications of Catastrophe Surfaces," Eyring Research Institute, (1976-7) with R. Burton, (P.I.), $11,000 02.  "PI for "Direct Rendering of Free-form Volumes," Arizona State University (Spring, 1991) $5,500 03.   "X Windows in a Process Control Environment," Honeywell, Inc., Industrial Automation & Control Division           (spring, 1991) with B. Milliard (P.I.) and D. Miller, $52,000 04.   P.I. for "Data Parallel Research Initiative Program," Digital Equipment Program (1992) with A. Sen, $96,650. 05.   "Adaption and Computational Characteristics of Motor Coordination," The Flinn Foundation #019-109-103-92           (1992-97), with G. Stelmach (P.I.) and G. Yamaguchi, $499,985. 06.   "Computational Algorithms for Brain Mapping," Desert Samaritan Hospitals, (1993-94) $150,808              with B. Huey (P.I.), T. Foley, and G. Farin. 07.   P.I. for "Hydra, A Computer Program for Tactile Mathematics," Institute for the Studies in Arts,             Arizona State University (1994-5) $9600 08. P.I. for "Three Dimensional Modeling of Arterial Disease," Research Initiation Award, Arizona State University (1995), $20,000 09.  P.I. for " A New Triperiodic Basis for Two Dimensions," Arizona State University, (1995) $6000 10.  P.I. for "Vertex Blending," US-Hungarian Joint Fund, (1994-94, J.F. No. 396) with T. Varady, $15,900 and 1,900,000 Forints. 11.  P.I. for "The Geometry Lab: an Interactive Learning Environment," Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, ASU 1995-6, 3 grants = $16,000 12.  Project Director for "Brain Imaging and the Behavioral Neurosciences," Flinn Foundation, #045-109-120-93, (1994-1998) a multidisciplinary grant with Good Samaritan Hospital and U of Arizona, $500,000 with Eric Reimann, M.D. 13. "Visual Applications Laboratory," NSF equipment grant, with Fourazon Golshani (P.I.) 1996, $160,000 14.  P.I. for "Three Dimensional Modeling of Arterial Disease," Research Initiation and continuation awards, Arizona State University ( 1995-8), $60,231 15.  P.I. for "HERA: Hand Eye Relational Analysis," Institute for the Studies in Art, (1996)  $20,000 with C. Dahl 16.  P.I. for study grant for "NSF Center for Development of Learning Technologies," NSF (1996) with D. Hestenes, M. Kawski, and K.Evans, $50,000 17.  Co P.I. for "Functional Brain Imaging," CEAS, ASU, $140,000 with F. Golshani and G. Farin. 18.  Project Director for "Brain Imaging for Alzheimers," Arizona State Legislature, (1997 - )              a multidisciplinary grant with Good Samaritan Hospital and U of Arizona, $1,000,000 with Eric Reimann, M.D. 19. Co-PI, SCREMS grant (NSF) for computational science, CSM, $25,000 with Willy Hereman, Graeme Fairweather. 20.  P.I, New Geometry for Modeling, Curventa Inc, $26,000, Fall 2003

Media Activities

Interviewed by the Denver Post, Sunday, April 18, for article on Computer Gaming. Interviewed by FOX Channel for SIGGRAPH 2003. Interviewed and quoted by Millimeter, Computer Graphics World, CGChannel and others on Computer Graphics as SIGGRAPH 2003 conference chair. Produced "SP3-T Scenes," a film accepted for the SIGGRAPH '82 film and video show, July 1982, Boston, MA. Co-producer: Phillip Skolmoski. Exhibited "The (5.2)-Toroidal Knot," in the SIGGRAPH '87 Art Show, Anaheim, CA July 1987 This work was also chosen to tour with the SIGGRAPH traveling art show. Originated concept for the SIGGRAPH99 Logo. Appeared twice on Channel 8, KAET's Research 1996 Topic was the Brain Imaging research project, Interviewed by Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, L.A. Times, Creative Planets for Stories on Computer Graphics, 1999. Presented and interviewed at SIGGRAPH99 Press conference. Produced "SIGGRAPH Papers 1999", video for the SIGGRAPH99 Electronic Theater, L.A., with Camille Celucci. Produced "SIGGRAPH Papers 2000", video for the SIGGRAP2000 Electronic Theater, New Orleans 2000 with ZDTV. Advisor on the IMAX film "The Search for Infinity," under production, C. Celucci, producer. Interviewed for CAD Society :Engineering Heroes" Series, May, 2008 www.CADSociety.com.heroes

Ph.D. Theses Supervised

01.  Chang, YuKuang, "Freeform Volume Visualization and Deformations," Dec 1994, ASU, Dept of CS. 02.  Zhao, Yan, "Multi-sided Surface Patch Generation and Vertex Blending," May 1995, ASU, Dept of CS. 03.  Kim, Hwa Jin Park, "The Design and Visualization of Genus n Objects and their Associated Vector Fields," May 1997, ASU, Dept of CS. 04.  Kadi, Zafer, "A Framework for Antialiasing Using Wavelets," May 1998, ASU, Dept of CS. 05.  Dorman, Jeff, "Virtual Clay Modeling: A Tactile Approach," May 1998, ASU, Dept of CS. 06.  de Melo, Silvio, "Brain Deformations for Imaging and Modeling," Dec. 1998, ASU, Dept of CS. 07.  Gao, Kun, "Attribute Based Geometric Modeling," December 2005, Colorado School of Mines, Dept of Math and CS. 08.  McMullin, Dale, A Standard Format and Modeling Kernel for 3D Vector Fields," May, 2007, Colorado

MS Theses Supervised

01.  Dhajiun Wang, "Blending Parametric Surfaces with Low Degree Parametric Fillets," Dec 1991 02.  Jayesh Patel, "A View-independent Global Illumination Algorithm for General Reflectance Functions," August 1992 03.  Haresh Vaishnav, "Offsetting and Blending of Parametric Surfaces by Implicitization." August 1992 04.  Luciano Reis, "Interpolation of Scattered Data with Tensor Product Surfaces," July 1993 05.  Chambers, Peter, "Three Dimensional Reaction Diffusion Textures," Dec 1993 06.  Sareddy, Madhukar, "A Polyhedral Interface for Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology," May 1993 07.  Budet, Jaime, "Radiosity Algorithms using General Reflectance Functions,            Curved Surfaces and Simplified Form Factors," May 1994 08.  Kadi, Zafer, "Conformal Mappings around Parametric Curves and its Applications," August 1995. 09.  Guerllimo Couto, "Particle System Isosurface Generations," Aug 1996 10.  Bhinderwala, Shoeb, "Design and Visualization of Vector Fields," May 1997 11.  Cheethirala, Rajesh, "A Tri-periodic Function for Image Processing," Dec 1997 12.  Ziemek, T., "Retaining Interest in Middle school Females through Use of Computer Gaming," May 2005 13.  Helbeig, Y., "Computing Collision Detection Using the Bracket," still in process.

MCS Students supervised with project

William Cochell, Yuan Lan, Bo Zhu, Bin Chen, Yann-ling Chuang, Bhavin Patel, Eric Schafer, Chuchart Wisetjindawat, Phillip Yong, Tiebing Jiang, LeAnne Van Der Merr, Jeffrey Dorman, Emiliano Yanex, Tony LaPaso, Holly Coast, Scott Bloomquist, Mohammed Obaid

Conference Activities - ACM SIGGRAPH

Chair, Conference Advisory Group for SIGGRAPH Asia, 2007- Vice President, ACM SIGGRAPH organization, 2005-2008 Chair, Steering Committee to create SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Chair, ACM SIGGRAPH2003 Member, Conference Advisory Group (Directing Board), ACM SIGGRAPH 2000-05 Chair, paper's program review committee, 2004. Chair, technical papers committee, ACM SIGGRAPH99 Papers committee, ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 conference. Papers committee, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 conference. Papers committee, ACM SIGGRAPH 2001 conference. Papers committee, ACM SIGGRAPH 2000 conference. Introductory Plenary for SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, July 2003. Organized a (juried) tutorial on curves and surfaces for SIGGRAPH2000 Emerging Technologies Exhibit, "You were There", SIGGRAPH2000 Organized a (juried) tutorial course on geometric algebra for SIGGRAPH2000 and SIGGRAPH2001 Conference organizing committee SIGGRAPH99 conference Ass't. Chair, Papers committee ACM SIGGRAPH98 conference. Papers committee, ACM SIGGRAPH 98 conference. Papers committee, ACM SIGGRAPH97 conference. Papers committee, ACM SIGGRAPH91 conference Organized a (juried) tutorial course on curves and surfaces for SIGGRAPH92, SIGGRAPH93, SIGGRAPH95, and SIGGRAPH96 Speaker for a (juried) tutorial course on new methods in graphics for SIGGRAPH2001 Speaker for a (juried) tutorial course on curves and surfaces for SIGGRAPH89, SIGGRAPH90, SIGGRAPH91 and SIGGRAPH2001. Speaker for a (juried) tutorial course on implicit surfaces for SIGGRAPH89

Conference Activities - Other

Keynote Speaker, AGACSE, Associtaion of 'geometric Algebra in Computer Science and Engineering, Augustm 2008m Leipzig, Germany. Invited Plenary Speaker, ICAT06, Hangzhou, PR China, Nov. 2006. Chair, Awards Jury, Virtuality 2006, Turin, Italy, Oct. 2006. President, Awards Committee, Laval Virtual, Laval, France, April, 2006. Keynote Speaker, GI2006, Quebec City. Canada, June. 2006. Keynote Speaker, IMA conference on Surfaces, Loufborough, England, Sept. 2005. Keynote Speaker, Nat. Renewable Energy Lab., Visualization in Science Workshop, Denver, CO, Sept 10, 2004. Invited Plenary Speaker, Geometric Invariance and Applications in Engineering, Xi'an, China, May 2004. Program committee member, Point Based Graphics Workshop, Zurich Switzerland, May 2004. Invited Speaker, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Minneapolis, August 2002. Program Co-chair, Pacific Graphics 2001. Speaker for a tutorial course on Geometric Algebra for IEEE VIS2000 Program committee member, Geometric Modeling and Processing 2000, Hong Kong. Program committee member, SIAM conf. on Geometric Design 1999 Speaker for a tutorial course on Geometric Algebra for IEEE VIS99 Speaker for a tutorial course on Geometric Algebra for IEEE VIS98 Plenary speaker, Conf. On Curves and Surfaces. Association d'Approximation Francaise, St.Malo, France July 1999 Papers committee ACM SOLID MODELING 97 conference Papers committee ACM SOLID MODELING 96 conference Papers committee ACM SOLID MODELING 95 conference Papers committee ACM SOLID MODELING 94 conference Technical committee, Implicit Objects Workshop, Pullman Washington, 1997 Technical committee, Implicit Objects Workshop, Eindhooven, Netherlands, 1996 Papers Committee, IMA Conf. On the Math. Of Surfaces, Birmingham, England, Sept. 1997 Papers Committee, IMA Conf. On the Math. Of Surfaces, Dundee, Scotland, Sept 1996 Plenary speaker, SIAM Conference on Applied Geometry, Tempe, AZ. Nov, 1993 Technical committee, 	SUPERCOMPUTING 91 conference Papers committee, IEEE Visualization 91 Papers committee, IEEE Visualization 90 Organized Minisymposia for SIAM conf. On Applied Geometry, Nov 1989 Invited Speaker, Evans and Sutherland Technical Retreat, Ixtapa, Mexico, 1985

Selected Invited Lectures

01.  "An Efficient Method to Display Algebraic Surfaces," Session on Geometry and topology, Amer. Math. Soc., Evanston, IL, 1977 02.  "Stock Market Model in Catastrophe Theory," Symposia on Catastrophe Theory in Economics, Idaho State University (1975) 03.  "Computing K-determinacy Based on a Theorem by Stefan," Math. Assoc. Amer. Rocky Mtn. Meeting, Univ. of Utah, May, 1977 04.  "Computer Aided Geometric Design, " DAMPT Numerical Analysis Series, Cambridge University  (1983) 05.  "New Surface Types for Geometric Modeling, " GM Research Center, Warren, MI (1983) 06.  "Visual Flight Simulation - The SP-3T System," British Computer Society, London (1984) 07.  "Blending Solid Geometric Models," Anglo-Hungarian CAD/CAM Society,                Nat. Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (1985). 08.  "A Short History of Computer Graphics," Computer Science Seminar, Cornell University (1988) 09.  "Real Time Rendering of Trimmed Surfaces," Stanford University, Televised Lecture Series (1989) 10.  "Real Time Rendering of Trimmed Surfaces," U. of Cal. At Berkeley (1989) 11.  "Multiperiodic Functions for Design," Math. Research Institute, Oberwohlfach, Germany (1992) 12.  "From Vision to Shape," SIAM Conf. On Geo. Modeling, Plenary talk, Tempe, AZ, Nov. 1993 13.  "Visualization of 3D Reaction Diffusion Patterns, Computer Science Research Institute,                Dagstuhl, Germany, ( June 1994) 14.   "Visualization and CAD/CAM," Lecture series (6), Hungarian Nat. Academy of Sciences,                Budapest, Hungary, June 1994 15.   "Topological Design of Genus n objects," Tech. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria June 1994 16.   "Conformal Deformations to Polynomial Boundaries," Wolfson Engineering and Cavendish Physics Units,                Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, June 1995 17.   "Three Dimensional Object Reconstruction from 2D Images,"  Plenary talk,                SIAM Conf. On Geometric Modeling, Nashville, TN, Nov. 1995 18.   "Conformal Maps in B-spline Form," Computer Science Research Institute,                Dagstuhl, Germany, May 1996 19.   "Three Dimensional Object Reconstruction from 2D Images," Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany, June, 1996 20.  "Conformal Maps and Applications," Purdue University, Dept of Computer Science, Nov. 1996 21.  "The Design and Animation of Vector Fields Using Geometric Algebra," Dept of Computer Science, Rice University, Jan. 1997 22.  "Geometric Algebra in Visualization," Computer Science Research Institute, Dagstuhl, Germany, June, 1997 23.  "A Single Domain, Genus n Design Interface," Greek Academic Village, Anogia, Crete, June 1997 24.  "Applications of Geometric Algebra," Plenary talk, Association d'Approximation Francaise, St. Malo, France, July 1999 25.  "A Techie Picks up the Paintbrush," Anderson Consulting Distinguished Lecture Series in                 Digital Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Feb, 2001. 26.  "The Ancients used Gods," Keynote Speaker for the opening of the Graphics and VR Center, EWHA Women's University, Seoul, Korea. 27.  "The State of SIGGRAPH," Plenary address, SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, CA, July, 2003 28.  Open lecture to students and faculty of Xi'an University of Science and Technology, June, 2004, Xi'an, China 29.  "Evolving Technology in Modeling," Invited Speaker, Seoul Intern'l Cartoon and Animation Festival." May 2008.

Reviewing

NSF reviewer, NSF panelist on Statistical Learning, April 2005 NSF panelist on Graphics and Visualization, Sept. 2005 Hong Kong Research Council reviewer Swedish Research Council for Engineering reviewer German Review Board for Technology and Science Canadian Science Board reviewer Member of editorial board for Butterworth's series on CAD/CAM. 1993-97. Editor, Journal of Graphics Tools, 2006 -

Refereed for the following journals ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings IEEE Computer Graphics and its Applications CAD Software and its Applications Computer The Visual Computer ACM Transactions on Graphics, Computer Aided Geometric Design Computer Graphics and Image Processing Computing Computer Graphics Forum IEEE Visualization IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Visualization. Journal of Graphics Tools

Consulting

"Applications of Catastrophe Theory," Eyring Research Center (1976-77) "Use of Surfaces in Visual Flight Simulation," Rediffusion Simulation Ltd. (1988) "Blending Surfaces for Parametric Primitives," Applied Geometry Corp. (1991) "Vertex Blending for Solid Modeling," Spatial Technologies, Inc. (1991-93) "Solid Modeler Evaluations," Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp., (1993) "Surface Triangulation," MCI (Anvil modeler) (1993) "Volume Deformation Patent," Research Technology Corp., Tucson, AZ. (1993) "The Modeling Workstation," Arizona State University, Prof. D. Hestenes (1994-96) "Visualizing Satellite Coverage and Links," Motorola IRIDIUM project, (1995) Technical Advisory Board, Viewpoint Datalabs (1995-96) "Tutorial on Curves and Surfaces," Silicon Graphics, Inc., (1996) "Free Form Deformation and Aesthetic Modeling," PTO/Proctor and Gamble, (1996-97) "Prosthetic Design," Power Take Off and Seattle Limb Systems, Inc. (1997) "Mythica," Multimedia production for the Royal Ontario Museum (1999) Advisory Board for the Visualization Institute Initiative, University of Idaho (2000-2001) "Fair Surface Evaluation," part of SBIR with Raindrop Geomagic Inc. (2005) "FICO Credit Score Simulator," Veracity Corp, Denver, Co, 2007.

University Courses Taught

At BYU (1973-75): MATH 112 Calculus - 4 times MATH 212 Calculus - 3 times MATH 351 Math for Secondary Ed.- 3 times MATH 105 College Algebra - 4 times

At ASU(1990-98): CSE 200 "C" - 1 time CSE 200 FORTRAN - only once (thank goodness) CSE 477 Computer Aided Geometric Design - 3 times CSE 494 Image Processing and Scene Analysis - 3 times CSE508 Advanced Image Processing - 1 time CSE 570 Advanced Computer Graphics I - 3 times CSE 570 Advanced Computer Graphics II - 2 times CSE 590 Topics on Animation and Graphics - 1 time CSE 590 Topics on Geometric Algebra - 2 times CSE 591 Seminar on CAGD/Graphics - 3 times

At Colorado School of Mines (2002 - 2006): MACS 441 Computer Graphics - 5 times MACS 598 Scientific Visualization - 1 time MACS 598 Applied Differential Geometry - 1 time MACS 406 Algorithms (Online) - 1 time MACS 442 Computer Graphics II - 2 times MACS 358 Discrete Mathematics - 1 time

University Service

Faculty Senate, ASU 1991-94 University Computer Usage Committee, ASU 1991-92 Curriculum and Academic Programs Committee, ASU 1993-94 Research Computing Subcommittee, Faculty Senate, ASU 1991-92 University Public Arts Commission, ASU 1992-96 Chair, Committee to design Scientific Computing Degree for ASU Math/CS, 1992-94 Graduate Affairs Committee, ASU C.S. Dept. 1990-93 Campus Wide Computer Visualization Committee, ASU 1994 Graduate Awards Committee, ASU C.S. Dept. 1995 Ad Hoc Committee for Learning Technologies, ASU 1995 Financial Aid Committee, ASU C.S. Dept 1994-95 Recruiting Committee, ASU C.S. Dept. 1995 Physics Liaison, ASU College of Eng. and Applied Science, 1995 Computer Resources Committee, ASU C.S. Dept 1997-98 Executive Committee, MACS, CSM, 2001- Technology Transfer Committee, CSM, 2001-2003 Chair, Graduate Committee MACS, CSM, 2002- Chair, Tenure and Promotion committee MACS, CSM, 2002-2003 Director of Graduate Studies, MACS, CSM, 2003-2004 Ass.t Head, Math and DX Dept., CSM, 2002-2004

Miscellaneous

Languages: Fluency in German, reading ability in French and some ancient Hebrew and Greek. Member of TSV Bargteheide Basketball team, 1973-75, German Oberliga (semi-pro) Cambridge University volleyball team, 1983-85 Authored Science Fiction novel: "How Noble in Reason," AKPeters Publishing. 2006. Current hobbies: writing, skiing, volleyball, yoga, mountain biking, art and computer games.

Siggraph Affiliation

ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 Vice President and current Asia Conference Advisory Group Chair, Alyn Rockwood, Ph.D. has recently published a new novel: How Noble in Reason

Alyn has dedicated many years of hard work, previously serving as SIGGRAPH Conference Chair in 2003 and as SIGGRAPH Research Papers Chair in 1999.

Primarily known for his innovative research in computer graphics and geometric modeling, Alyn received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University in Cambridge, England.

While a research scientist at Cambridge University in the 1980's, he invented a new area of mathematics involving the definition and blending of surfaces.

Throughout his professional life, Alyn has been involved in studying the mathematics of the representation of objects.

Artist Statement

I am a naturalist. I present beauty and truth as they naturally appear to me.

I am also a mathematician, a visual mathematician with more than 30 years of experience in shapes and forms. Seeing profound beauty in mathematical forms is as natural to me as watching a sunset.

As a result, I see all my art works as naturalistic. The mathematical pieces, however, provide a view into a world which is unfamiliar to most viewers, a most divine and engaging world.

As a naturalist, I strive to bring forth the best subjects, perspectives and illuminations in this world.

My years in computer graphics and my training as a painter have taught me how to translate the mathematical form into the visual one.

Good art tells stories. So it is with mathematical art. Sometimes I manage and structure the mathematics to tell a story. Other times the story is embedded and discovered in the mathematical object itself.

It is my passion to encourage mathematics to tell its stories, to bare its soul.

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