Michael Gervautz

• e-mail: gervautz@cg.tuwien.ac.at
• phone: +43/1/230 6066 01
• fax: +43/1/234 4624/99
• office hours: nach Vereinbarung per mail

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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

• Computer Science Project 1
• Computer Science Project 2 and Computer Graphics Project
• Supervision of Diploma Theses and Dissertations

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.

• 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

• Computer Graphics
• Virtual Reality
• Computer Animation
• Realistic Image Rendering
• Multimedia

• My family, juggling, squash, playing guitar