J. Scott Hofmann

I am currently looking for a job in the Austin, TX area, to start after my wife and I move there sometime in summer 2006. If you're looking to hire a senior software engineer with a lot of experience in game development and interactive graphics technologies, please look at my resume.

Now that the commercial announcement is out of the way, this site is mostly intended to be a collection area for my various projects, so let's get right down to business:

Cybermyrmecology - the study of artificial ants

Self-reproducing Cellular Automata - an implementation of Chris Langton's famous CA.

Watch this space, as I will be adding more applets when I convert more of my old Java applications to applets.

Here's a collection of pages describing various class projects I have worked on while getting my Master's degree at the George Washington University:

CSci 219, Computer Graphics II:

• Curves and Surfaces Some java applets implementing four kinds of curves and two types of surfaces
• Z-Buffering An implementation of the popular hidden-surface removal algorithm
• Lighting and Shading This assignment adds Phong specular illumination with your choice of shading models
• Texture Mapping Just to round things out, let's add textures to the mix as well
• L-Systems My final project was a system which generated plant models from Lindenmayer grammars

CSci 206, Computer Animation:

• Splines More curves, used this time to interpolate orientations
• Articulated Figure Motion It's alive, I tell you, alive!
• Physically-based Modeling A simple physics-based system with both translational and rotational dynamics
• Behavioral Motion Control An implementation of Craig Reynolds' flocking algorithm
• Naughty or Nice A nice little Christmas story as our final project

A few years ago, I completed my Master's thesis while working in the Institute for Computer Graphics under Dr. James Hahn. My thesis title was "The Render Graph: A Data Structure to Aid in the Interactive Display of Scene Graph Data" and its abstract is here. I successfully defended this thesis in November 2002, and I will eventually put up a page devoted to the technology described there.

If you want to get a good idea of what my interests are, here's my (large!) bookmarks file.

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