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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - ACM Fellow For contributions to visualization tools and computer animation.

Overview

Nelson Max is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their work primarily falls under the broad discipline of Computer Science, with specific contributions in several subfields. These include Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Molecular Biology, Computer Networks and Communications, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics covered in Max's research involve Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, Advanced Vision and Imaging, DNA and Biological Computing, Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques, Error Correcting Code Techniques, Image Enhancement Techniques, and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation.

Max has published research in a variety of academic venues such as:

  • International journal of agricultural and biological engineering
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Visual Media
  • The Visual Computer
  • Computers

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Max are:

  • Photovoltaic cell model parameter optimization using micro-charge field effect P systems, 2021, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Optimization method to obtain appropriate spacing parameters for crop cultivation, 2020, International journal of agricultural and biological engineering
  • Temporal and spatial anti-aliasing for rendering reflections on water waves, 2021, Computational Visual Media
  • Global illumination in sparse voxel octrees, 2021, The Visual Computer

Frequent co-authors working alongside Max include Weilong Ding, Chengcheng Fan, Lifeng Xu, Tao Xie, and Yang Liu, each contributing collaboratively across multiple projects.

Max was recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2011 for contributions related to visualization tools and computer animation.

Best Publications

  • Optical models for direct volume rendering

    N. Max

  • Bidirectional reflection functions from surface bump maps

    Brian Cabral;Nelson Max;Rebecca Springmeyer

  • Area and volume coherence for efficient visualization of 3D scalar functions

    Nelson Max;Pat Hanrahan;Roger Crawfis

  • Texture splats for 3D scalar and vector field visualization

    Roger A. Crawfis;Nelson Max

  • A contract based system for large data visualization

    H. Childs;E. Brugger;K. Bonnell;J. Meredith

  • Weights for computing vertex normals from facet normals

    Nelson Max

  • Vectorized procedural models for natural terrain: Waves and islands in the sunset

    Nelson L. Max

  • Atmospheric illumination and shadows

    Nelson L. Max

  • Structured Light-Based 3D Reconstruction System for Plants

    Thuy Tuong Nguyen;David C. Slaughter;Nelson Max;Julin N. Maloof

  • Horizon mapping: shadows for bump-mapped surfaces

    Nelson L. Max

  • Hierarchical rendering of trees from precomputed multi-layer z-buffers

    Nelson Max

  • A characterization of the scientific data analysis process

    Rebecca R. Springmeyer;Meera M. Blattner;Nelson L. Max

  • Flow volumes for interactive vector field visualization

    Nelson Max;Barry Becker;Roger Crawfis

  • Sorting and hardware assisted rendering for volume visualization

    Clifford M. Stein;Barry G. Becker;Nelson L. Max

  • Light diffusion through clouds and haze

    Nelson Max

  • Smooth transitions between bump rendering algorithms

    Barry G. Becker;Nelson L. Max

  • A characterization of the scientific data analysis process

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  • Flow visualization using moving textures

    Nelson Max;Barry Becker

  • Rendering Trees from Precomputed Z-Buffer Views

    Nelson L. Max;Keiichi Ohsaki

  • Efficient light propagation for multiple anisotropic volume scattering

    Nelson Max

  • Atmospheric illumination and shadows

    N. L. Max

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Hamann
Bernd Hamann University of California, Davis
Cláudio T. Silva
Cláudio T. Silva New York University
Kenneth I. Joy
Kenneth I. Joy University of California, Davis
Robert S. Laramee
Robert S. Laramee University of Nottingham
Kwan-Liu Ma
Kwan-Liu Ma University of California, Davis
Yang Liu
Yang Liu University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tomoyuki Nishita
Tomoyuki Nishita Hiroshima Shudo University
Warren E. Pickett
Warren E. Pickett University of California, Davis
Giulia Galli
Giulia Galli University of Chicago

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