“Ben is great to work with and provides very inciteful perspectives on business practices and project development. He helped Chris Covelli and I develop the Species system from its very early stages through to product release and still provides us with guidance during our continued development of the system. I look forward to working with Ben in the future, others will appreciate the experience doing the same.”
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Finally found the courage to post some of my drawings online. There are so many ultra talented people out there that it's been quite an intimidating…
Finally found the courage to post some of my drawings online. There are so many ultra talented people out there that it's been quite an intimidating…
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As an amateur historian and longtime observer of Ottawa's tech sector scene, the National Capital Freenet is for me one of the standout Ottawa…
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Do you know any music composers that would be interested in testing my new audio/music search app, Aster (asteraudio.app)? It let's you search your…
Do you know any music composers that would be interested in testing my new audio/music search app, Aster (asteraudio.app)? It let's you search your…
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Experience
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Carleton University
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Activities and Societies: Cognitive Science Society, Debate Team, ACM Programming Team
Publications
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Tetrahedral embedded boundary methods for accurate and flexible adaptive fluids
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics)
When simulating fluids, tetrahedral methods provide flexibility and ease of adaptivity that Cartesian grids find difficult to match. However, this approach has so far been limited by two conflicting requirements. First, accurate simulation requires quality Delaunay meshes and the use of circumcentric pressures. Second, meshes must align with potentially complex moving surfaces and boundaries, necessitating continuous remeshing. Unfortunately, sacrificing mesh quality in favour of speed yields…
When simulating fluids, tetrahedral methods provide flexibility and ease of adaptivity that Cartesian grids find difficult to match. However, this approach has so far been limited by two conflicting requirements. First, accurate simulation requires quality Delaunay meshes and the use of circumcentric pressures. Second, meshes must align with potentially complex moving surfaces and boundaries, necessitating continuous remeshing. Unfortunately, sacrificing mesh quality in favour of speed yields inaccurate velocities and simulation artifacts. We describe how to eliminate the boundary-matching constraint by adapting recent embedded boundary techniques to tetrahedra, so that neither air nor solid boundaries need to align with mesh geometry.
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Hierarchical RLE level set: A compact and versatile deformable surface representation
ACM Transactions on Graphics
This article introduces the Hierarchical Run-Length Encoded (H-RLE) Level Set data structure. This novel data structure combines the best features of the DT-Grid (of Nielsen and Museth [2004]) and the RLE Sparse Level Set (of Houston et al. [2004]) to provide both optimal efficiency and extreme versatility. In brief, the H-RLE level set employs an RLE in a dimensionally recursive fashion.
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RLE sparse level sets
ACM SIGGRAPH
The RLE (run-length encoded) sparse level set is a novel scalable level set representation. This compact level set representation, and it's ability to represent animated characters, was used in the creation of the "Tar Monster" CG character featured in the movie Scooby Doo 2.
Projects
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Exocortex Species
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Python programming and Softimage plug-in development of Species which allows users to quickly iterate through the character development process and transition seamlessly into animation of the same character using the build in auto-rigging system.
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