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.


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