Some Animations, Publications, and Images
by Kurt Fleischer and
Friends
Selected Computer Animations
Bearly Growing (1995)
Shown in the Siggraph 95 Animation Room.
The Caltech Graphics Group exhibits
one way to 'skin' a bear, using
techniques described in our Siggraph 95 paper
Cellular Texture Generation.
Quicktime 3.85M.
SVR #114.
Blobbies with Scales (1995)
An animation I made for my Siggraph 95 talk
entitled Cellular Texture Generation.
Mpeg 359K.
Cells: Simulations of Multicellular Development (1994)
by Fleischer,
shown in Siggraph 94 Electronic Theatre.
A suite of simulations exhibits the pattern formation
capabilities of a new developmental model.
The model incorporates chemical, mechanical, genetic and cell lineage
factors.
More info.
SVR #101.
The Teapot that Wanted to be a Lobster (1994)
a Single-Image Stereogram Animation
by Fleischer, Winfree, Laidlaw, Pfarner.
Shown at a Siggraph 94 Special Installation (
see Erik's description
).
Details on some of the techniques will appear in
a forthcoming book
Stereogram Programming Techniques by Watkins and Mallette
(Charles River Media).
Fruit Tracing (1993)
by the Caltech Graphics Group
(group photo)
(credits).
Fruitons are employed to reveal the true underlying structure of
matter. Shown in the Siggraph 93 Electronic Theatre, and several other
shows internationally.
Mpeg 359K.
SVR #91.
Simulation Testbed for Multicellular Development. (1993)
Fleischer, Barr, presented at Artificial Life III, in Santa
Fe, New Mexico. Later work in this area appears in
Cells, above.
Flyby of Reaction-Diffusion on Manifolds (1993)
by Fleischer and
John Snyder.
A video to show off some reaction-diffusion textures computed
on manifolds. John Snyder created the objects and the textures (as
part of a collaborative project with John Hughes, Alan Barr and
Mark Montague).
I just did the flyby.
Mpeg 526K.
Here's a view of the camera motion, using a tool I wrote
Mpeg 413K. The
tool was written
in Newgen.
Cooking with Kurt (1987)
Kurt Fleischer, Andrew Witkin, Michael Kass, and Demetri Terzopoulos.
Vision, graphics, and dancing vegetables.
This animation uses vision techniques to get object shapes, then
physically-based modeling to animate them.
Mpeg 80K.
SVR #36.
Knot Reel (1986) Andrew Witkin,
Kurt Fleischer, and Michael Kass.
An experiment in mixing computer vision with computer graphics. It appeared at the SIGGRAPH 86 electronic theater. It won Grand Prix at Parigraph '86, and received honorable mention for Prix Ars Electronica '87.
Mpeg 167K.
SVR #24.
Publications
- "Computer Generated Watercolors"
Curtis,
Anderson, Fleischer,
Salesin,
Siggraph 97.
-
"Investigations with a Multicellular Developmental Model",
Fleischer,
in
Artificial Life V, p. 229-236, (MIT Press/Bradford Books 1996).
- A stereogram technique by Winfree and Fleischer,
Stereogram Programming Techniques
by Watkins and Mallette,
publ: Charles River Media, 1995.
- "A Multiple-Mechanism Developmental Model for Defining
Self-Organizing Geometric Structures,"
PhD Thesis
by
Kurt Fleischer, 1995.
- "Cellular Texture Generation,"
Fleischer, Laidlaw, Currin, Barr, Proceedings of ACM Siggraph 95.
- "Pure Phase-Encoded MRI and Classification of Solids," Ghosh, Laidlaw, Fleischer, Barr, Jacobs. IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 14(3), 1995.
- "Classification of Material Mixtures in Volume Data for Visualization and Modeling," Laidlaw, Fleischer, Barr,
Caltech CS Tech Report CS-TR-94-07.
-
"A Simulation Testbed for the Study of Multicellular Development: Multiple Mechanisms of
Morphogenesis,"
Fleischer, Barr, Artificial Life III, Addison-Wesley, 1993.
- "Analog VLSI Implementation of Multi-dimensional Gradient Descent," Kirk, Kerns, Fleischer, Barr, Neural Information Processing Systems V, Morgan Kauffmann '93.
- US Patent #5,329,478, "Circuit and Method for Estimating
Gradients," Kirk, Kerns, Anderson,
Fleischer,
Barr, 1994.
- "Interval Methods for Multi-Point Collisions between Time-Dependent Curved Surfaces,"
Snyder,
Woodbury, Fleischer, Currin, Barr, Proceedings Siggraph 93, pp 321-334.
- "Accurate Polygon Scan Conversion, " Fleischer,
Graphics Gems III, Academic Press, 1992.
- "Polygon Scan Conversion," Fleischer,
Caltech-CS-TR-91-12, 1991.
- "Constrained Optimization Applied to the Parameter Setting Problem for Analog VLSI Circuits, " Kirk, Fleischer, Watts, Barr. Neural Information Processing Sys IV '92.
- "Heating and Melting Deformable Models,"
Terzopoulos, Platt, and Fleischer. Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 2(2), 1991, 68--73.
- "An Approach for Solving the Parameter Setting Problem,"
Fleischer, Platt, and Barr. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (IEEE). Kona, HI, 1990.
- "From Goop to Glop: Melting Deformable Models,"
Terzopoulos, Platt, and Fleischer. Graphics Interface 89.
- "Modeling Inelastic Deformation: Viscoelasticity, Plasticity, Fracture,"
Terzopoulos and Fleischer, Proceedings of ACM Siggraph 88.
- "Physically Based Modeling for Vision and Graphics,"
Witkin, Kass, Terzopoulos, Fleischer.
Proceedings: DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Cambridge, Mass.,
April 1988, published by Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 254--278.
- "Overview of SPAR work on vision and modeling,"
AAAI Spring Symposium on ComputerVision 1988, Witkin, Kass, Terzopoulos, Fleischer.
- "Deformable Models," Terzopoulos, Fleischer, The Visual Computer, 4(6), 1988.
- "A Modeling Testbed," Fleischer, Witkin, Proceedings Graphics Interface 1988.
- "Energy Constraints For Parameterized Models," Witkin, Fleischer, Barr, Siggraph 87.
- "Elastically Deformable Models," Terzopoulos, Platt, Barr, Fleischer, Siggraph 87.
- "Toward Expressive Constraint-Based Animation," Marion,
Fleischer, Vickers, Graphics Interface 1984 (Canada).
Computer Imagery
- Siggraph 95 Front Cover and Art Show.
"Spike."
- "Thornballs."
ACM Siggraph Technical Slide Set, 1995.
- "Scaled Spheres."
ACM Siggraph Technical Slide Set, 1995.
- "Human Molar Geometry Derived From MRI,". Laidlaw, Ghosh,
Fleischer, Barr, and Jacobs, ACM Siggraph Technical Slide Set, 1995.
- ``Inside a Bee,'' ``Inside the Human Hand 2,''
``Human Hand Montage,'' ``Lobster MRI Data,'' Laidlaw, Avalos,
Jacobs, Fleischer, and Barr, ACM Siggraph Technical Slide Set, 1994.
- Computer Graphics World (front cover inset) April 1989. "April 15th."
- Kodansha Ltd (Japan) "Survey of Design, Vol VI: Computer Graphics." Several images.
- Graphics Interface 88 Front Cover, and Siggraph 88 slide show. "Machine Interface."
- Siggraph 87 Art Show, Eurographics 88. "Red Dress."
- Siggraph 87 Proceedings Back Cover, "Flying Carpet."
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