Joe Petviashvili

huge collection of computer graphics papers

“ Note that when possible I link to the page containing the link to the actual PDF or PS of the preprint. I prefer this as it gives some context to the paper and avoids possible copyright problems with direct more...

“Character animation in video games—whether manually key-framed or motion captured—has traditionally relied on codifying skeletons early in a game's development, and creating animations rigidly tied to these fixed skeleton morphologies. This paper introduces a novel system for animating characters wh more...

It's possible we could render the ray traced Amiga juggler today in real time at close to 30 fps-- but barely.

Ten common mistakes in icon design.

The Seam Carving GUI is a GUI front end to CAIR, which is an implementation of Arial Shamir's seam carving algorithm (aka content aware image resizing, aka image retargeting).

A few years ago I have used Cindy Brewer's ColorBrewer system for picking the right color scheme for graphics, based on experience from cartography. Recently, it has also been made into a R library. In particular, ColorBrewer distinguishes three types more...

Here are a few pages from the 18-page chapter on sparklines in Beautiful Evidence (2006). New examples or helpful comments much appreciated.