Rate My Professor Geoff Wyvill

Wyvill's research specializes in computer graphics, with key contributions to implicit surfaces, soft objects, ray tracing of CSG systems, shape modeling, animation, and deformation techniques including sweepers and swirling-sweepers. His interests extend to animation as art and scientific illustration, real-time rendering, water simulation, facial animation, and interdisciplinary art-science projects such as 'Ice Is Cool' (2020) and 'Amazing Water'. He has published over 100 technical papers and books, including foundational works like 'Data Structure for Soft Objects' (The Visual Computer, 1986), 'Field Functions for Implicit Surfaces' (The Visual Computer, 1989), 'Ray-Tracing Soft Objects' (1990), 'An Introduction to Implicit Surfaces' (1997), 'Sweepers: Swept Deformation Defined by Gesture' (2006), and 'Swirling-Sweepers: Constant Volume Modeling' (2006). Wyvill contributed to animations in films including 'Soft' (1985), 'Great Train Robbery' (1988), and 'Fashion Show' (1992), as well as TV commercials. He has served as Executive Editor of Virtual Reality and on editorial boards for The Visual Computer, Computer Graphics Forum, and Visualization and Computer Animation. His scholarship has garnered over 3,120 citations and delivered numerous invited talks and courses.