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The National Science Foundation

Active Projects

  • The Program of Computer Graphics is one site of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, Cooperative Agreement #ASC-8920219.

  • The Program of Computer Graphics also receives NSF equipment funding under Contract #EIA 9871440, "MRI: Acquisition of Equipment for Telecollaboration, Telepresence, and Design."

  • From 1995-1999, The Program of Computer Graphics received NSF funding for Physically and Perceptually-Based Parallel Global Illumination Solutions, a Metacenter Regional Alliance program project, grant number ASC-9523483.

Intel Corporation

Cornell is one of twelve U.S. universities that received grants under Intel's three-year, $85 million Technology for Education 2000 program to support research and curriculum development in computationally demanding fields.

The Program of Computer Graphics received equipment support for two projects under this grant. The first, entitled "New Opportunities and Challenges for Computer Graphics", investigated new opportunities for developing distributed graphics-intensive applications that leverage higher processor speeds and specialized accelerators for video and graphics performance. Current Unix workstation graphics algorithms need to be re-evaluated to take advantage of the different hardware configurations and resources on Intel architecture platforms.

A second project in "Architectural Design" explored one of the most difficult challenges for the interactive graphics software industry. Currently available architectural design software is difficult to use at the preliminary design phase, when expressing creative ideas is most critical. What is needed is a "back-of-the-envelope" environment, with the ability to sketch, doodle, and erase, to proceed in an iterative, non-linear fashion, and to perform these operations in a full three-dimensional domain.

Hewlett Packard Corporation

The Program of Computer Graphics has a longstanding relationship with the Hewlett Packard Corporation, which has generously provided both equipment and grant funding to support our research, and donated funds to support the construction of Rhodes Hall in part to provide a home for the Program of Computer Graphics.

Our research is of direct interest to Hewlett Packard in many areas, including digital photography, color science, light reflection models, visual perception research, as well as our traditional research thrusts in algorithms for physically-based rendering.

Alias/Wavefront

Alias/Wavefront has provided licenses for their Alias PowerModeling, PowerAnimator, and StudioPaint 3D software on SGI and Windows NT workstations under their Campus Partner program. This modeling software provides our research group unique capabilities to explore complex 3D models for real-time, high quality, global illumination rendering. In addition, undergraduate architecture students doing research and special projects in our lab use Alias software for advanced animation and modeling projects.

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