Kenneth E. Hoff III is currently a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working with the geometric modeling and virtual environment walkthrough groups. His research interests include real-time rendering techniques of large geometric databases consisting of polygon-based or NURBS-based primitives; realistic rendering such as ray-tracing, radiosity, and hybrid Monte Carlo methods; free-form surface modeling; physically-based modeling and animation; and 2D and 3D interaction techniques for navigating and manipulating a virtual environment. Many of his past and current projects are available at http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hoff.
July 1997