Publications

Level of Detail book cover
Level of Detail for 3D Graphics
David Luebke, Martin Reddy, Jonathan D. Cohen, Amitabh Varshney, Benjamin Watson, and Robert Huebner.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishing. 2002. ISBN 1-55860-838-9. 432 pages.
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Multi-grained Level of Detail Using a Hierarchical Seamless Texture Atlas
Krzysztof Niski, Budirijanto Purnomo, and Jonathan D. Cohen
Proceedings of 2007 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games. pp. 153-160.
[Paper - 20 MB pdf] [Video - 56 MB mov (H.264 codec, Quicktime 7)]

Projected Tetrahedra Revisited: A Barycentric Formulation Applied to Digital Radiograph Reconstruction Using Higher-Order Attenuation Functions
Ofri Sadowsky, Jonathan D. Cohen, and Russell H. Taylor
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 12 (4). July 2006. pp. 461-473.
[Paper - 1.1 MB pdf]

Digital Hammurabi: Design and Devlopment of a 3D Scanner for Cuneiform Tablets
Daniel V. Hahn, Donald D. Duncan, Kevin C. Baldwin, Jonathan D. Cohen, and Budirijanto Purnomo.
Proceedings of SPIE. 6056. pp. 130-141. 2006.
[Paper - 1.5 MB pdf]
Poynting flux visualization
Visualization of Time-Varying Curvilinear Grids Using a 3D Warp Texture
Yuan Chen, Jonathan Cohen, and Subodh Kumar
Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2005 (10th International Fall Workshop). 281-288 and 514.
[Paper - 1.1 MB pdf] [Video - 17 MB avi (xvid codec), 33 MB avi (divx codec), 28 MB mov (mpeg4 codec) - note: same video, different formats]
DRR of a pelvis
Rendering Tetrahedral Meshes with Higher-Order Attenuation Functions for Digital Radiograph Reconstruction
Ofri Sadowsky, Jonathan D. Cohen, and Russell H. Taylor
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005. pp 303-310.
[Paper - 0.6 MB pdf] [Video - 3.0 MB avi (xvid codec), 6.5 MB avi (divx codec) note: same video, different formats]

A Relational Debugging Engine for the Graphics Pipeline
Nathaniel Duca, Krzysztof Niski, Jonathan Bilodeau, Matthew Bolitho, Yuan Chen, and Jonathan Cohen
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005). 24 (3). pp. 453-463.
[Paper - 2.5 MB pdf] [Video - 45 MB mov]

Hardware-Compatible Vertex Compression Using Quantization and Simplification
Budirijanto Purnomo, Jonathan Bilodeau, Jonathan D. Cohen, and Subodh Kumar
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Graphics Hardware 2005. pp. 53-61 and 117.
[Paper - 2.4 MB pdf]
power plant interior
vLOD: A System for High Fidelity Walkthroughs of Very Large Virtual Environments
Jatin Chhugani, Budirijanto Purnomo, Shankar Krishnan, Jonathan D. Cohen, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, David Johnson, and Subodh Kumar
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 11 (1). January 2005. pp. 35-47.
[Paper - 4.2 MB pdf]

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iClay: Digitizing Cuneiform
Jonathan Cohen, Donald Duncan, Dean Snyder, Jerrold Cooper, Subodh Kumar, Daniel Hahn, Yuan Chen, Budirijanto Purnomo, and John Graettinger
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage (VAST 2004). pp. 135-143.
[Paper - 2.5 MB pdf]

(Try out the iClay Java applet to the left. Left drag moves the light source. Right click pops up menu to adjust visualization parameters.)
flat -style seamless texture atlas
Seamless Texture Atlases
Budirijanto Purnomo, Jonathan D. Cohen, and Subodh Kumar
Proceedings of 2nd Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing. pp. 67-76. 2004.
[Paper - 8.7 MB pdf]
depth-shaded cuneiform tablet
Digital Preservation of Ancient Cuneiform Tablets Using 3D Scanning
Subodh Kumar, Dean Snyder, Donald Duncan, Jonathan Cohen, and Jerry Cooper
Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling. pp. 326-333. 2003.
[Paper - 1.0 MB pdf]
isosurface of radmri data
ISOSLIDER: A System for Interactive Exploration of Isosurfaces
Jatin Chhugani, Sudhir Vishwanath, Jonathan Cohen, and Subodh Kumar
Proceedings of 2003 Symposium on Data Visualization (VisSym 2003). pp. 259-266.
[Paper - 1.1 MB pdf]
contrast of lit, textured torus Perceptually Driven Simplification of Lit, Textured Meshes
Nathaniel Williams, David Luebke, Jonathan D. Cohen, Mike Kelly, and Brenden Schubert
Proceedings of 2003 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics. pp. 113-121. (selected for cover image)
[Paper - 5.5 MB pdf] [Video - 96 MB mpg]
oxygen post Interactive Visualization of Unstructured Grids Using Hierarchical 3D Textures
Joshua Leven, Jason Corso, Jonathan D. Cohen, and Subodh Kumar
Proceedings of IEEE/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2002. pp. 37-44. (selected for cover image)
[Paper - 2.6 MB pdf] [Video - 38.2 MB mpg]
Hybrid Simplification: Combining  Multi-resolution Polygon and Point Rendering
Jonathan D. Cohen, Daniel G. Aliaga, and Weiqiang Zhang
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2001. pp. 37-44 and 539.
[Paper - 1.4 MB pdf] [Video - 59 MB mpg]
Uniform Frequency Images: Adding Geometry to Images to Produce Space-Efficient Textures
Adam Hunter and Jonathan D. Cohen
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2000. pp. 243-250 and 563.
[Paper - 5.5 MB pdf] [CD-ROM data - 13.8 MB zip]
Successive Mappings: An Approach to Polygonal Mesh Simplification with Guaranteed Error Bounds
Jonathan D. Cohen, Dinesh Manocha, and Marc Olano
International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications. 13 (1). February 2003. pp. 61-94.
[Paper  - 5.3 MB pdf]
Concepts and Algorithms for Polygonal Simplification
Jonathan D. Cohen
SIGGRAPH 99 Course Tutorial #20: Interactive Walkthroughs of Large Geometric Datasets. pp. C1-C34. 1999. also in SIGGRAPH 2000 Course Tutorial.
[Paper - 1.2 MB pdf]
MMR: An Interactive Massive Model Rendering System using Geometric and Image-based Acceleration
Daniel Aliaga, Jonathan Cohen, Andrew Wilson, Eric Baker, Hansong Zhang, Carl Erikson, Kenneth Hoff, Thomas Hudson, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Rui Bastos, Mary Whitton, Frederick Brooks, and Dinesh Manocha
Proceedings of the 1999 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, pp. 199-206 and 237.
[Paper - 1.3 MB pdf]
A Framework for the Real-time Walkthrough of Massive Models
Daniel Aliaga, Jonathan Cohen, Andrew Wilson, Hansong Zhang, Carl Erikson, Kenneth Hoff, Thomas Hudson, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Eric Baker, Rui Bastos, Mary Whitton, Frederick Brooks, and Dinesh Manocha
UNC Technical Report 98-013. 1998.
[Paper - 0.7 MB pdf]
Appearance-Preserving Simplification of Polygonal Models
Jonathan D. Cohen
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1998.
[Paper - 17.3 MB pdf] [Paper (low resolution) - 0.9 MB pdf]
Appearance-Preserving Simplification
Jonathan Cohen, Marc Olano, and Dinesh Manocha
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98. (Orlando, FL, July 19-24, 1998). pp. 115-122.
[Paper - 3.5 MB pdf] [Video - 35 MB mpg] [Web Page]
Simplifying Polygonal Models Using Successive Mappings
Jonathan Cohen, Dinesh Manocha, and Marc Olano
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '97. pp. 395-402, and 564.
[Paper - 2.5 MB pdf] [Web Page]
Accelerated Occlusion Culling Using Shadow Frusta
T. Hudson, D. Manocha, J. Cohen, M. Lin, K. Hoff, and H. Zhang
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry. 1997.
[Paper - 0.3 MB pdf] [Paper - 0.3 MB ps (gzipped)]
V-Collide: Accelerated Collision Detection for VRML
T. Hudson, M. Lin, J. Cohen, S. Gottschalk, and D. Manocha
Proceedings of VRML ’97
[Paper - 0.2 MB pdf] [Software] [Web Page]
Collision Detection: Algorithms and Applications
Ming Lin, Dinesh Manocha, Jonathan Cohen and Stefan Gottschalk
Proceedings of Algorithms for Robotics Motion and Manipulation. pp. 129-142. eds. Jean-Paul Laumond and M. Overmars, A.K. Peters (invited submission)
[Paper - 0.4 MB pdf] [Paper - 0.2 MB ps (gzipped)]
Simplification Envelopes
Jonathan Cohen, Amitabh Varshney, Dinesh Manocha, Greg Turk, Hans Weber,Pankaj Agarwal, Frederick Brooks, and William Wright
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 96 (New Orleans, LA, August 4-9, 1996). pp. 119-128.
[Paper - 0.4 MB pdf] [Software - 3.7 MB zip] [Web Page]
I–COLLIDE: an Interactive and Exact Collision Detection System for Large Scale Environments
Jonathan D. Cohen, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha, and Madhav K. Ponamgi
Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (Monterey, CA, April 9-12, 1995), pp. 189-196.
[Paper - 0.3 MB pdf] [Paper - 1.3 MB ps (gzipped)] [Software] [Web Page]
Combatting Rendering Latency
Marc Olano, Jon Cohen, Mark Mine, Gary Bishop
Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (Monterey, CA, April 9-12, 1995). pp. 19-24 and 204.
[Paper - 0.1 MB pdf] [Paper - 0.5 MB ps (gzipped)]
Collision Detection for Interactive Environments
Jonathan D. Cohen, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha, Madhav K. Ponamgi
The 3rd Annual Video Review of Computational Geometry. 1994.
[Video (portions of the original plus some torii) - 1.1 MB mpg)]


May 16, 2007