Efficient Rendering Rendering detailed surface models requires many triangles, resulting in a geometry processing bottleneck. We are working on efficient rendering by clipping the rendering of coarse geometry to the exact silhouette of the original model. Hinting in TrueType is a time-consuming manual process in which a typographer creates a sequence of instructions for better fitting the characters of a font to a grid of pixels. Our research has provided a new method for automatically hinting TrueType fonts by transferring hints of one font to another. Given a closed figure in the plane, find a new closed figure that is similar to the original and tiles the plane.
Isohedral tilings are a class of tilings in which each tile is equivalent to every other.
These tilings, it turns out, are flexible enough to encompass nearly all of Escher s own tilings, and yet simple enough to be encoded and explored by a computer. This is joint work with the University of Washington.