Luiz Carlos Pacheco Rodrigues Velho (born 5 June 1956) is a Brazilian applied mathematician working primarily on
computer graphics
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and
computer vision
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. He is a full researcher and professor at
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) and leading scientist of VISGRAF, laboratory that conducts researches in the field of modeling, rendering, imaging, and animation.
In 2010, Luiz Velho received the
National Order of Scientific Merit
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for his scientific and technical contributions. In 2005, he was keynote speaker i
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing in Vienna.
His academic background includes a BE in industrial design fro
a specialization in computer science from
PUC-Rio, a MS in computer graphics from the
MIT Media Lab, a Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of Toronto
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and a postdoctoral fellowship in applied mathematics from IMPA.
Selected publications
*Luiz Velho and Jonas Gomes. "Digital Halftoning with Space Filling Curves". Computer Graphics, 25(4):81–90, 1991.
*Luiz Velho and Denis Zorin. "4-8 Subdivision". Computer-Aided Geometric Design, 18(5):397–427, 2001. Special Issue on Subdivision Techniques.
*Jingdan Zhang, Kun Zhou, Luiz Velho, Baining Guo, and Heung-Yeung. "Synthesis of Progressively Variant Textures on Arbitrary Surfaces". ACM Transactions on Graphics, 22(3):295–302, July 2003.
References
External links
Mathematics Genealogy ProjectBiography
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Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada researchers
21st-century Brazilian mathematicians
People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Recipients of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
1956 births
Living people
20th-century Brazilian mathematicians
Computer graphics researchers