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I recently finished up an M.Sc. under the supervision of David Mould, but also under the advisement of Eric Neufeld and Ray Spiteri. My thesis is on the physically-based animation of jellyfish. Most of the work was focused on the physics: coupling fluid simulations (both Eulerian, Lagrangian, and semi-Lagrangian) with spring-mass systems for modeling elastic bodies. We also exploit the radial symmetry of the organism, which allows us to do full fluid simulations without incurring too much computational expense. For more details, have a look at the proposal, or the thesis itself below. I am currently working at PhaseSpace Motion Capture, Inc. as a software analyst, doing research and software analysis related to motion capture, animation, computer vision, and applied math. My personal web-page is here, but I keep any of my school-related stuff on this server, such as:
Thesis-related work:Animating Jellyfish through Numerical Simulation and Symmetry Exploitation (thesis) Automatically Animating Jellyfish by Exploiting Radial Symmetry (proposal)
Publications:Dave Rudolf, David Mould Dave Rudolf, David Mould, Eric Neufeld
Unpublished Manuscripts:An Observational Model of Jellyfish Motion Distributed Reaction-Diffusion Terrain Generation and Modeling Optimized Differential Cryptanalysis of DES Snake Oil: Encryption that Sucks Analysis of the Data Encryption Standard
Demos:Crayola
Oblongata Smoothed
Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) SPH
Interacting with Elastic Solids
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