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Alethea S Bair Ph.D. student Architecture Visualization Laboratory abair@viz.tamu.edu |
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Education Ph.D. (in progress), Architecture, Texas A&M University B.A. 2003, Physics, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign High School, 1999, New Trier High School Work Experience Programmer, Capsher Technologies, Fall 2007-present Lab Instructor for Data Visualization, Texas A&M University, Spring 2007 Research Assistant for Dr. Donald House, Texas A&M University, 2003-2007 Picture Framer, Deck the Walls, 2003-2006. Invited Talks Optimizing Textures for Layered Surface Visualization, Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, 2005, La Coruna, Spain Geodesic Motion of Test Particles in Kerr Space-time, Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2002, Argonne National Laboratories. Published Papers A. Bair, D. House, "A Grid with a View: Optimal Texturing for Perception of Layered Surface Shape", Proceedings of IEEE Visualization Conference, 2007. A. Bair, D. House, C. Ware. "Texturing of Layered Surfaces for Optimal Viewing," Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(5) Sept/Oct 2006. A. Bair, D. House, C. Ware, "Perceptually Optimizing Textures for Layered Surfaces," Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, pp 67-74, 2005 Programming Skills/Software C++, C#, Java, Matlab, Python, XNA, HTML, OpenGL, GLSL(GPGPU) Renderman, VTK, Maya, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Final Cut Pro Mac OSX, Linux, Windows XP |
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Awards 1st place in the 2007 TAMU IVC data visualization competition. Finalist "Sprockets of Strife" in the 2007 Microsoft DreamBuildPlay game competition. Extracurricular Violinist with the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra Student of Tae Kwon Do, Karate and Tai Chi |