Ingo Wald SCI Institute, University of Utah 50 South Central Campus Drive, Room 3490 Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA Email: wald@sci.utah.edu Phone: (better use email right now...) Fax: (better use email right now...) Office: Merrill Engineering Building, Room 3452

News

• Newest additions to my publications page:
  • State of the Art in Ray Tracing Animated Scenes to be presented at Eurographics
  • Interactive Isosurface Ray Tracing of Time-Varying Tetrahedral Volumes, to be presented at IEEE Vis 2007
  • On fast Construction of SAH based Bounding Volume Hierarchies, to be presented at RT07
  • A Techreport on Packet-based Ray Tracing of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces

Research interests

• Realtime Ray Tracing
• Photorealistic Image Synthesis and Physically-correct Lighting Simulation
• Interactive Global Illumination
• Scientific Visualization and High-performance Computing
• Parallel and Distributed Computing (in particular on PC clusters)
• Multiresolution methods (in particular for point-based and volume/isosurface data)
• Interactive Visualization of Massively Complex (and potentially time-varying) data sets)
• Hierarchical Index Structures and Efficient Traversal Algorithms

Education

Links

• Before going to Utah, I've been the coordinator and main software architect of the OpenRT Realtime Ray Tracing Project
• I'm co-founder and co-CEO of inTrace Realtime Ray Tracing GmbH, a spin-off company that provides services, software, and consulting on realtime ray tracing, and which sells the inView realtime ray tracing package.
• I provide expertise and consulting on Realtime Ray Tracing. You can contact me here.
• During our research on ray tracing animated scenes, we've created the Utah Animation Repository