About the Authors

John F. Hughes (B.A., Mathematics, Princeton, 1977; Ph.D., Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley, 1982) is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. His primary research is in computer graphics, particularly those aspects of graphics involving substantial mathematics. As author or co-author of 19 SIGGRAPH papers, he has done research in geometric modeling, user interfaces for modeling, nonphotorealistic rendering, and animation systems. He’s served as an associate editor for ACM Transaction on Graphics and the Journal of Graphics Tools, and has been on the SIGGRAPH program committee multiple times. He co-organized Implicit Surfaces ’99, the 2001 Symposium in Interactive 3D Graphics, and the first Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, and was the Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 2002.

Andries van Dam is the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education, and Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He has been a member of Brown’s faculty since 1965, was a co-founder of Brown’s Computer Science Department and its first Chairman from 1979 to 1985, and was also Brown’s first Vice President for Research from 2002–2006. Andy’s research includes work on computer graphics, hypermedia systems, post-WIMP user interfaces, including immersive virtual reality and pen- and touch-computing, and educational software. He has been working for over four decades on systems for creating and reading electronic books with interactive illustrations for use in teaching and research. In 1967 Andy co-founded ACM SICGRAPH, the forerunner of SIGGRAPH, and from 1985 through 1987 was Chairman of the Computing Research Association. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and holds four honorary doctorates. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers and nine books.

Morgan McGuire (B.S., MIT, 2000, M.Eng., MIT 2000, Ph.D., Brown University, 2006) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Williams College. He’s contributed as an industry consultant to products including the Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Titan Quest video game series, the E Ink display used in the Amazon Kindle, and NVIDIA GPUs. Morgan has published papers on high-performance rendering and computational photography in SIGGRAPH, High Performance Graphics, the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. He founded the Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, chaired the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games and the Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, and is the project manager for the G3D Innovation Engine. He is the co-author of Creating Games, The Graphics Codex, and chapters of several GPU Gems, ShaderX and GPU Pro volumes.

David Sklar (B.S., Southern Methodist University, 1982; M.S., Brown University, 1983) is currently a Visualization Engineer at Vizify.com, working on algorithms for presenting animated infographics on computing devices across a wide range of form factors. Sklar served on the computer science faculty at Brown University in the 1980s, presenting introductory courses and co-authoring several chapters of (and the auxiliary software for) the second edition of this book. Subsequently, Sklar transitioned into the electronic-book industry, with a focus on SGML/XML markup standards, during which time he was a frequent presenter at GCA conferences. Thereafter, Sklar and his wife Siew May Chin co-founded PortCompass, one of the first online retail shore-excursion marketers, which was the first in a long series of entrepreneurial start-up endeavors in a variety of industries ranging from real-estate management to database consulting.

James Foley (B.S.E.E., Lehigh University, 1964; M.S.E.E., University of Michigan 1965; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1969) holds the Fleming Chair and is Professor of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. He previously held faculty positions at UNC-Chapel Hill and The George Washington University and management positions at Mitsubishi Electric Research. In 1992 he founded the GVU Center at Georgia Tech and served as director through 1996. During much of that time he also served as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics. His research contributions have been to computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and information visualization. He is a co-author of three editions of this book and of its 1980 predecessor, Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics. He is a fellow of the ACM, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and IEEE, recipient of lifetime achievement awards from SIGGRAPH (the Coons award) and SIGCHI, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Steven Feiner (A.B., Music, Brown University, 1973; Ph.D., Computer Science, Brown University, 1987) is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he directs the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab and co-directs the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center. His research addresses 3D user interfaces, augmented reality, wearable computing, and many topics at the intersection of human-computer interaction and computer graphics. Steve has served as an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Graphics, a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and a member of the editorial advisory board of Computers & Graphics. He was elected to the CHI Academy and, together with his students, has received the ACM UIST Lasting Impact Award, and best paper awards from IEEE ISMAR, ACM VRST, ACM CHI, and ACM UIST. Steve has been program chair or co-chair for many conferences, such as IEEE Virtual Reality, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology, Foundations of Digital Games, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software & Technology, IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, and ACM Multimedia.

Kurt Akeley (B.E.E., University of Delaware, 1980; M.S.E.E., Stanford University, 1982; Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2004) is Vice President of Engineering at Lytro, Inc. Kurt is a co-founder of Silicon Graphics (later SGI), where he led the development of a sequence of high-end graphics systems, including RealityEngine, and also led the design and standardization of the OpenGL graphics system. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a recipient of ACM’s SIGGRAPH computer graphics achievement award, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Kurt has authored or co-authored papers published in SIGGRAPH, High Performance Graphics, Journal of Vision, and Optics Express. He has twice chaired the SIGGRAPH technical papers program, first in 2000, and again in 2008 for the inaugural SIGGRAPH Asia conference.