DAVE KNOTT

• My idea of a great vacation is a 3415.8 km bicycle trip

• I AM NOW ACTIVELY SEEKING EMPLOYMENT
• Here is my resume.
• My most recent employment falls under the general umbrella of software engineering in the computer games industry.
• Currently published game credits include Monster Lab, developed at Backbone Entertainment (Vancouver)
  
• I was previously a doctoral-track graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the department of computer science.
• I was affiliated with the GAMMA research group, focusing on geometric modeling and animation
  
• Research involved improved methods for collision detection between highly deformable geometric models.
• Results were accepted for publication at the SIGGRAPH 2005 conference.
• See below for a copy of the paper and its associated video.
  
• I hold a masters degree from the University of British Columbia in the department of computer science.
• I was affiliated with both the Imager computer graphics group, and the LCI artificial intelligence and robotics group.
• My graduate studies supervisor was Dinesh Pai.
  
• Some of my thesis research was done in conjunction with the fine folks at Radical Entertainment.
• Research involved using graphics hardware to aid in collision and interference detection.
• Two separate portions of the thesis were accepted for publication and presentation at the Graphics Interface 2003 and SIGGRAPH 2003 conferences.
• See below for copies of the thesis and publications.
  

• Interactive Collision Detection between Deformable Models using Chromatic Decomposition
• Naga K. Govindaraju, David Knott, Nitin Jain, Ilknur Kabul, Rasmus Tamstorf, Russell Gayle, Ming C. Lin, and Dinesh Manocha
• ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005), 24(3), July 2005
• Back cover image of journal/proceedings
  
• Project page, including paper and video
  
• A small extension that allows for dynamic topology
  
• Simulation of Complex Audio-Visual Scenes
• Kees van den Doel, Dave Knott, and Dinesh K. Pai
• Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments , 13(1), February 2004
  
• CInDeR: Collision and Interference Detection in Real-Time using graphics hardware
• David Knott
  
• Masters Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2003
• Particle System Collision Detection using graphics hardware,
• Dave Knott, Kees van den Doel, and Dinesh K. Pai
• ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Sketches and Applications, July 2003
• CInDeR: Collision and Interference Detection in Real-Time using graphics hardware
• Dave Knott and Dinesh K. Pai
  
• Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2003, pp. 73-80, May 2003