Computer Graphics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Computer Graphics Laboratory
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Computer Sciences

Research Projects

Most of the computer graphics research in the UT Austin CS department is conducted by two major sub-groups, each with its own web page:

Center for Computational Visualization (led by Chandrajit Bajaj)
Real-Time Graphics and Parallel Systems (led by Don Fussell)

We also collaborate with the Texas Advanced Computer Center's visualization group.

Faculty

Four computer sciences faculty have their primary research interest in computer graphics and visualization:

Chandrajit Bajaj, Professor
Don Fussell, Professor

Research Facilities

The graphics laboratory is located on the ground floor of the ACES building, in room 2.102. Facilities include:

Cyberware Desktop 3D Scanner -- instructions here
Four-processor compute server (Intel 2.8GHz P4 Xeon, donated by Intel)
Color laser printer (Minolta Color PageWorks)
A variety of Windows and Linux PCs with NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards.
Full access to the ACES/TACC Visualization Laboratory,
also on the ground floor of the ACES building, with:
- Front and rear-projection 180 degree projector display systems
- PC cluster for real-time multi-display rendering
- Wide-area 6-DOF 3D tracking system (3rdTech HiBall)
- Non-linear video and audio editing facilities
- High-quality color printer (Tektronix/Xerox 8200DP)
- Large format color printer/plotter (HP DesignJet)

Our current facilities are primarily funded by industry sponsors, including Microsoft, Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD.

The graphics lab facilities were originally funded by an NSF CISE research infrastructure grant titled "System Support for a Hierarchy of Distributed Applications" active 1996-2001.

Last update: 26-Aug-2011 by Don Fussell.