Neil Anthony Dodgson is
Professor
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of
Computer Graphics
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at the
Victoria University of Wellington
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. He was previously (until 2016)
Professor
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of
Graphics and Imaging in the
Computer Laboratory
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at the
University of Cambridge
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in England, where he worked in the ''Rainbow Group'' on computer graphics and interaction.
Education
Dodgson graduated with a
Bachelor of Science
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degree in Computer Science and Physics from
Massey University
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in 1988 and subsequently worked there as a Junior Lecturer in Computer Science for one year. He was awarded a
Cambridge Commonwealth Trust
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Prince of Wales Scholarship to study at the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
, where he worked on image resampling supervised by
Neil Wiseman
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and graduating with a PhD in 1992.
Research
Dodgson worked for many years on stereoscopic
3D displays, conducting research principally into
autostereoscopic
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methods. He has contributed to several surveys of the field and has been on the committee of the annual
Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference since 2000, co-chairing the conference four times.
With Malcolm Sabin, Dodgson has worked on
subdivision surface
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s since 2000. Dodgson's team produced the NURBS-compatible subdivision method in 2009.
Dodgson has supervised almost twenty research students for PhDs.
Personal life
Dodgson also takes an interest in abstract art.
See also
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Mathematics and art
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References
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British computer scientists
Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholars
1966 births
Living people