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Rui Bastos
bastos@cs.unc.edu
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~bastos

16 Audley Ln.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
(919) 967-9346

Fax: (919) 962-1799

Areas of Interest

Global illumination, interactive rendering, dynamic environments, virtual reality, graphics.

1995 - present: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science. Member of the Walkthrough team.

1995 - 1997: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
M.Sc., Computer Science.

1989 - 1991: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
M.Sc., Computer Science.

1984 - 1988: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
B.Sc., Physics.

Languages C, C++, FORTRAN, ML. Others: HTML.

Environments Unix, X-Windows, MS-Windows, MS-DOS, Mac OS.

Packages/Protocols OpenGL, IrisGL, Pphigs, TCP/IP, PVM.

Platforms SGI, IBM PC Compatible, Pixel Planes-5, Sun, DEC Alpha, HP workstations.

Graphics / VR:	Solving the radiance equation with convolution (to appear) Hybrid Reality Walking Experiment Hybrid Geometry- and Image-Based Interactive Rendering of Glossy Reflections Massive Model Rendering (Electric Garden SIGGRAPH 97) Graphical Path Editor for Walkthrough Applications Radiosity for Dynamic Environments Discontinuity Meshing Preprocessing for (Lightscape) Radiosity Radiosity As Textures Efficient Rendering for the Kaiser HMD (12 LCDs, ~150 degrees fov) Bicubic Reconstruction of Radiosity Functions Computer Generated Holograms 3D Modeling System with Bezier Surfaces
Distrib systems:	ABCAST protocol. (C, TCP/IP, team of 2)
Languages:	Compiler for a subset of ADA/CS, for the MIPS R2000 processor. (C, Lex, Yacc, team of 2)

[1999, Summer] Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, UNC-CH
Project: Hybrid Reality—team leader, reporting to Dr. Frederick Brooks, Jr. R&D in high performance photorealistic rendering and virtual reality.

[1998, Summer] Consultant for Discreet Logic/Lightscape, Montreal, Canada
U.S. Patent number 09/261,146 filed on 03 March 1999.

[1997, Summer] Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, UNC-CH
Project: Walkthough - Architectural Visualization Research, reporting to Dr. Frederick Brooks, Jr. R&D in "Massive Model Rendering (MMR)" – demo at Electric Garden / SIGGRAPH 97.

[1996, Summer] Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, UNC-CH
Project: Walkthough - Architectural Visualization Research, reporting to Dr. Frederick Brooks, Jr. Research in "Radiosity As Texture maps" and discontinuity meshing. Radiosity for large models using Lightscape software.

[1995, Summer] Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, UNC-CH
Project: Walkthough - Architectural Visualization Research, reporting to Dr. Frederick Brooks, Jr. Research in efficient meshing techniques. Experiments with Lightscape software.

[1994] Research Assistant, Centro Nacional de Supercomputação, Brazil
Reporting to Dr. Sergio Bampi. Responsible for training users of a CRAY Y-MP; vector processor machine. Research in sampling and reconstruction techniques for radiosity.

[1994] Assistant Professor, Instituto de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Brazil. Teaching two introductory undergraduate courses in computer science.

[1992-1993] Research Assistant, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal. Project: CG&CAD, reporting to Dr. Nunes Ferreira and Dr. Augusto de Sousa. R&D in radiosity algorithms.

P. Zimmons and R. Bastos. Exploiting Sphere Mapping. UNC-CH Technical Report TR99-028, July 1999.

R. Bastos. Solving the Radiance Equation with Convolution. UNC-CH Technical Report TR99-021, April 1999.

M. Usoh, K. Arthur, M. Whitton, R. Bastos, A. Stee d, M. Slater, F. Brooks, Jr. Walking > Walking-in-Place > Flying, in Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99 (Los Angeles, CA, 1999).

R. Bastos, K. Hoff, W. Wynn, and A. Lastra. Increased Photorealism for Interactive Architectural Walkthroughs. In ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics. Atlanta, April 26-28, 1999.

D. Aliaga et. al.. MMR: Massive Model Rendering System using Geometric and Image-Based Simplification. In ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics. Atlanta, April 26-28, 1999.

R. Bastos, W. Stuerzlinger. Forward Mapped Planar Mirror Reflections. Technical Report # TR98-026, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1998.

L. A. Lima, R. Bastos. Virtual Seismic Interpretation. In SIBGRAPI’98. Rio de Janeiro, 1998.

L. A. Lima, R. Bastos. Seismic Data Volume Rendering. Technical Report # TR98-004, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 1998.

D. Aliaga, J. Cohen, H. Zhang, R. Bastos, T. Hudson, C. Erikson. Power Plant Walkthrough: An Integrated System for Massive Model Rendering. Technical Report # TR97-018, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 1997.

W. Stürzlinger, R. Bastos. Interactive Rendering of Globally Illuminated Scenes. In 8^th Eurographics Rendering Workshop, Saint Etienne, France, 16-18 June, 1997.

R. Bastos, M. Goslin, H. Zhang, Efficient Radiosity Rendering using Textures and Bicubic Reconstruction. In ACM-SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Providence, RI, April 27-30, 1997.

H. Ferreira, A. A. Sousa, R. Bastos. Mirror Surfaces for Radiosity. In 7^th Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica. Lisbon, Portugal, 1995. (In Portuguese)

R. Bastos, M. Oliveira. Improved Sampling and Reconstruction in Radiosity, In Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Gráfica e Processamento de Imagens (SIBGRAPI'94), Curitiba, Brazil, 1994.

R. Bastos, A. A. Sousa, F. N. Ferreira. Reconstruction of Illumination Functions using Bicubic Hermite Interpolation, In 4^th Workshop on Rendering (Eurographics), Paris, France, July 1993.

R. Lemos, R. Bastos, Carla Freitas. Animation of the Dynamic Motion and Collisions of Rigid Bodies. In Conferência Latino-Americana de Informática. Las Palmas de Gran Canária, Spain, September 1992. (In Portuguese)

R. Bastos, A. Lashuck. True 3D Images in Computer Graphics through the use of Computer Generated Holograms, In Compugraphics'92, Lisbon, Portugal, December 1992.

R. Bastos. Computer Generated Holograms of Geometrical Objects, Master Thesis, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 1992. (In Portuguese)

R. Bastos, M. Nascimento, M. Oliveira. BEZIER3D - Environment for 3D Modeling and Visualization. In Workshop on Geometric Modeling, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 1991. (In Portuguese)