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Overview

Alan H. Barr is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Molecular Biology, and Ecology as notable subfields.

Their work addresses a variety of topics including 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis, Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, Space Satellite Systems and Control, Satellite Communication Systems, Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques, Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques, and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "A Rapid Method For Orbital Coverage Statistics With $\mathbf{J_2}$ Using Ergodic Theory" (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "A Rapid Method For Orbital Coverage Statistics With $\mathbf{J_2}$ Using Ergodic Theory" (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "Molecular system for an exponentially fast growing programmable synthetic polymer" (2023, Scientific Reports)
  • "SURF Report: High Accuracy Methods for Computing Gravitational Potential and Gravitational Force Fields Near the Surface of Irregularly Shaped 3-Dimensional Bodies" (2024, arXiv (Cornell University))

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scientific Reports

Regular collaborators in their research include:

  • Andrew J. Graven
  • Martin W. Lo
  • Mathieu Desbrun
  • Mark Meyer
  • Peter Schröder

Best Publications

  • Elastically deformable models

    Demetri Terzopoulos;John Platt;Alan Barr;Kurt Fleischer

  • Discrete Differential-Geometry Operators for Triangulated 2-Manifolds

    Mark Meyer;Mathieu Desbrun;Mathieu Desbrun;Peter Schröder;Alan H. Barr

  • Implicit fairing of irregular meshes using diffusion and curvature flow

    Mathieu Desbrun;Mark Meyer;Peter Schröder;Alan H. Barr

  • Global and local deformations of solid primitives

    Alan H. Barr

  • Elastically deformable models

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  • Dynamic real-time deformations using space & time adaptive sampling

    Gilles Debunne;Mathieu Desbrun;Marie-Paule Cani;Alan H. Barr

  • A modeling system based on dynamic constraints

    Ronen Barzel;Alan H. Barr

  • Interactive animation of structured deformable objects

    Mathieu Desbrun;Peter Schröder;Alan Barr

  • Constraints methods for flexible models

    John C. Platt;Alan H. Barr

  • Global and local deformations of solid primitives

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  • Generalized barycentric coordinates on irregular polygons

    Mark Meyer;Alan Barr;Haeyoung Lee;Mathieu Desbrun

  • Interactive animation of cloth-like objects in virtual reality

    Mark Meyer;Gilles Debunne;Mathieu Desbrun;Alan H. Barr

  • Partial-volume Bayesian classification of material mixtures in MR volume data using voxel histograms

    D.H. Laidlaw;K.W. Fleischer;A.H. Barr

  • Level set surface editing operators

    Ken Museth;David E. Breen;Ross T. Whitaker;Alan H. Barr

  • Energy constraints on parameterized models

    Andrew Witkin;Kurt Fleischer;Alan Barr

  • Anisotropic Feature-Preserving Denoising of Height Fields and Bivariate Data.

    Mathieu Desbrun;Mark Meyer;Peter Schröder;Alan H. Barr

  • Accurate triangulations of deformed, intersecting surfaces

    Brian Von Herzen;Alan H. Barr

  • Smooth interpolation of orientations with angular velocity constraints using quaternions

    Alan H. Barr;Bena Currin;Steven Gabriel;John F. Hughes

  • Guaranteed ray intersections with implicit surfaces

    D. Kalra;A. H. Barr

  • Cellular texture generation

    Kurt W. Fleischer;David H. Laidlaw;Bena L. Currin;Alan H. Barr

  • Ray tracing complex models containing surface tessellations

    John M. Snyder;Alan H. Barr

  • Oriented tensor reconstruction: tracing neural pathways from diffusion tensor MRI

    Leonid Zhukov;Alan H. Barr

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathieu Desbrun
Mathieu Desbrun California Institute of Technology
David H. Laidlaw
David H. Laidlaw Brown University
David E. Breen
David E. Breen Drexel University
John Platt
John Platt Google (United States)
Peter Schröder
Peter Schröder California Institute of Technology
Marie-Paule Cani
Marie-Paule Cani École Polytechnique
Ross T. Whitaker
Ross T. Whitaker University of Utah
Denis Zorin
Denis Zorin New York University
John Snyder
John Snyder Microsoft (United States)
Demetri Terzopoulos
Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles

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