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Hobbies

Movies: I am a great movie fan. On average I go to movie theatres about one day per week.
Music: I could not live without hearing music. My preferred styles are gothic, rock, pop and grunge. My favorite artists list includes Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Nirvana, Pixies, R.E.M., U2, The Clash, and some others.
Netsurfing: Well...
Board Games: I like complex board games like 1830, 1835, Advanced Civilization, Kremlin, or Junta.
Fine Art: I like some styles in modern art including Surrealism, Op-Art, and Pop-Art.
Cabaret: Even though the 50s and 60s were considered as the golden age of the Austrian Cabaret, in my opinion we have a better Cabaret-Scene these days. My favorite Cabaretists are Josef Hader, Alfred Dorfer, Thomas Maurer and Leo Lukas.
Cartoons: My favorite austrian cartoonists are Gerhard Haderer, Erich Eibl, Erich Sokol, Dieter Zehentmayr, Jean Veenenbos, and Oliver Schopf. The Austrian newspaper Der_Standard provides every day a new cartoon online.

Miscellaneous

Multi-Resolution Image Morphing: An interesting part of my upcomming PhD-Thesis. Includes a short description of the technique, examples in mpeg-format, and the free downloadable program for Linux/X-Windows.
Repaint-It!: The Abstract of my diploma thesis and some resulting pictures generated from a source photo with some strange brush strokes.
Technical Reports: I am maintaining the the online Technical Reports of our Institute. There are many interesting papers of our Institute, which you may check out. Many of them appeared in a revised version in highly rated journals and conferences.
Graffiti: Some would it call Words of Wisdom. It contains many quotes from the movies "Trust" and "Simple Men" by Hal Hartley.
Rasterfahndung: (in German) In summer of 96 the Austrian Parliament voted for the law on computer aided police investigations, which could lead to a Police State as described in the book 1984 by George Orwell!

Books

Here is a list of Books, which I can highly recommend:

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Humor

Murphys Law: The essential laws you have to cope with, if you do something in the field of Computers.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Trilogy of five Books by Douglas Adams.
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- Live, the Universe, and Everything
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
- Mostly Harmles
Discworld Books by Terry Prachet

Popular Science

Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky

Professional Work

I am a PhD Student at the Institute of Computer Graphics at the Vienna University of Technology since March 1994, working in the field of Application of Wavelets to Computer Graphics. One of the results of this work is the Multi-Resolution Morphing. I am a member of the computer society ACM and SIGGRAPH. Other areas of interest in Computer Graphics are Rendering, Virtual Reality, Hypermedia, and Computer Aided Art. For people, who are more interested in my profession, I have done some contributions to the field. Here is my Publication List. It has only few entries yet, but this should change as time goes by ...

I also have an official WWW staff page at the Institute of Computer Graphics.

Other computer related stuff I am interested in includes Artificial Life, Complex Systems and Intelligent Agents.

Wanna get connected?

From February 1998 till January 1999 less reachable because of forced labor!

e-mail:: kopp@cg.tuwien.ac.at
kopp@acm.org
finger:: kopp@weinberl.cg.tuwien.ac.at
snail mail:: Manfred Kopp
Institut für Computergraphik,
Abteilung für Visualisierung und Animation
Technische Universität Wien
Karlsplatz 13-186/2
A-1040 Wien
AUSTRIA, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, Universe
phone:: +43 (1) 588 01 / 45 75
fax:: +43 (1) 587 49 32
WWW:: http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~kopp/

Last updated: 12-feb-98

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