Michael Gervautz
- e-mail: gervautz (at) cg.tuwien.ac.at
- phone: +43/1/230 6066 01
- fax: +43/1/234 4624/99
- office hours: nach Vereinbarung per mail
Content:
Function
I am currently excused from my employment, to set up the spin off company Imagination. This means, I am doing no lectures any more. Nevertheless in special cases I am conducting praktika, diploma thesises or PhDs.
- Associate Professor and Dozent at the institute
- currently on leave
- CEO of Imagination Computer Services GesmbH
Courses
- Computer Science Project 1
- Computer Science Project 2 and Computer Graphics Project
- Supervision of Diploma Theses and Dissertations
Research Work
As I am working currently full time for Imagination, I have reduced my research activities to only a few projects. Here ist the list of activities I have done so far.
Virtual Environments- Motion prediction and time-constant rendering
- User interface design for virtual environments
- Levels of detail
- Simulation and animation in an distributed environment
- Design of specialized protocolls for distributed virtual environments
- System design of distributed virtual environments
- Augmented reality
- Studierstube and PIP
- Person Tracking
- Integrating a scripting language into an interactive animation system
- Object-oriented animation design
- Dynamics for simulation of motion of kinematic chains
- Collision detection
- Levels of detail for computer animation
- Cyclic CSG graphs - a geometric representation for iterative structures
- Ray tracing of natural phenomenons with cyclic CSG graphs
- Speed-Improvements for Ray tracing
- Radiosity for CSG
- Consistent schemes for adressing surfaces when ray tracing transparent CSG-objects
- Octree-Quantization: A simple Method for color quantization
- SOL - An object description language for CSG-objects
- Multimedia Teachware for a Computer Animation Course
Interests
- Computer Graphics
- Virtual Reality
- Computer Animation
- Realistic Image Rendering
- Multimedia
Hobbies
- My family, juggling, squash, playing guitar
