DAVE KNOTT

This is my (somewhat minimal) home page.


Here is what you should know about me:

• I currently reside in the Plateau / Mile End neighbourhood of the multicultural city of Montreal, Quebec.
  
• I am originally from the west coast of Canada, and hail from rural Metchosin on Vancouver Island.
  
• My idea of a great vacation is a 3415.8 km bicycle trip.

• My employment falls under the general umbrella of software engineering in the computer graphics and games industries.
• Potential employers may be interested in my resume / CV.
• I am currently a software developer at the Montreal studios of Ubisoft
• I am a member of the global technology group, which provides solutions to all Ubisoft studios worldwide.
• Most of my current projects involve low level, close-to-the-metal software engineering.
• I work with wide variety of hardware and operating systems, including all major console and mobile game platforms.
• Previous employment was at Piranha Games.
• I was part of the team working on Duke Nukem Forever.
• Less recent work includes published published game credits such as:
• Monster Lab, developed at Backbone Entertainment.
• Dark Summit, developed at Radical Entertainment.
• I have been involved in numerous other computer graphics projects in other, non-games-related fields.  Please see my CV for details.
• I perform independent computer application development and technology research, with an in-development project targeted at multiple platforms.
• I was previously a doctoral-track graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the department of computer science.
• I was affiliated with the GAMMA research group, focusing on geometric modeling and animation.
• Research involved improved methods for collision detection between highly deformable geometric models.
• Results were accepted for publication at the SIGGRAPH 2005 conference -- In case you were wondering, yes, I was that guy.
• See below for a copy of the paper and its associated video.
• I hold a masters degree from the University of British Columbia in the department of computer science.
• I was affiliated with both the Imager computer graphics group and the LCI artificial intelligence and robotics group.
• My graduate studies supervisor was Dinesh Pai.
• Some of my thesis research was done in conjunction with the fine folks at Radical Entertainment.
• Research involved using graphics hardware to aid in collision and interference detection.
• Two separate portions of the thesis were accepted for publication and presentation at the Graphics Interface 2003 and SIGGRAPH 2003 conferences.
• See below for copies of the thesis and publications.

e-mail me through:  davidknott [at] gmail [dot] com
If you feel like encrypting your correspondence, here is my PGP public key

 

Publications

• Interactive Collision Detection between Deformable Models using Chromatic Decomposition
• Naga K. Govindaraju, David Knott, Nitin Jain, Ilknur Kabul, Rasmus Tamstorf, Russell Gayle, Ming C. Lin, and Dinesh Manocha
• ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005), 24(3), pp. 991-999, July 2005
• Back cover image of journal/proceedings
• Project page, including paper and video
• A small extension that allows for dynamic topology
• Simulation of Complex Audio-Visual Scenes
• Kees van den Doel, Dave Knott, and Dinesh K. Pai
• Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 13(1), February 2004
• CInDeR: Collision and Interference Detection in Real-Time using graphics hardware
• David Knott
• Masters Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2003
• Particle System Collision Detection using graphics hardware,
• Dave Knott, Kees van den Doel, and Dinesh K. Pai
• ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Sketches and Applications, July 2003
• CInDeR: Collision and Interference Detection in Real-Time using graphics hardware
• Dave Knott and Dinesh K. Pai
• Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2003, pp. 73-80, May 2003

All documents are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.