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About this site and about the author

This site, 3Dcompression.com, is hosted by SJB Communications, and built with PHP and MySql.  Its development was made possible by an Intel Fellowship and an NSF Grant, and by the encouragement and advice of Jarek Rossignac and others in the GVU Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The author of this site, Davis King, is a computer scientist currently working on a Ph.D. at Georgia Tech.  His research is on 3D compression, ways to measure the shape complexity of 3D surfaces, and related aspects of computer graphics and computer vision.  His advisor is Jarek Rossignac, the inventor of the Edgebreaker algorithm and co-inventor of the Topological Surgery algorithm for mesh compression.  Davis has received an Intel Fellowship for his work in this area, and he has previously worked as a research intern at Hewlett-Packard Labs, as a freelance programmer/consultant, as a trader on Wall Street, and as a sailing instructor.

Davis' contributions to the field of 3D compression include:

• being the first to prove and to demonstrate that some types of polygon mesh can be encoded more efficiently than triangle meshes
• proving some of the best-known worst-case guarantees for triangle mesh and polygon mesh connectivity compression
• developing a concept of 'shape complexity,' and using it to show how the tradeoff between mesh simplification and vertex quantization depends on the shape and surface properties of each object

Davis' papers may be found on his research homepage, and more on his research interests, career, and other aspects of his life may be found at davisking.com