Research Interest

My research interest is creating new expressive rendering techniques, artistic interfaces, and abstraction techniques (visual/motion/narrative) that make it easier for people to communicate quickly, clearly, and compellingly through images and animations.

 About Me

I'm a graduate student (as of September 2008) at University of Toronto under supervision of Aaron Hertzmann. I completed a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in May 2006, where I worked for Lee Markosian. After graduating from University of Michigan, I worked for Thomson Reuters (Eagan, MN) for 2 years (July 2006-June 2008), where I worked on westlaw.com (search engine for lawyers.)

I was born in Riga, Latvia in 1984, where I witnessed the collapse of USSR. On 9/11/1997 I moved to Farmington Hills, Michigan.

 Publications

Papers

Dynamic 2D Patterns for Shading 3D Scenes

Simon Breslav, Karol Szerzen, Lee Markosian, Pascal Barla, Joëlle Thollot

ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007), Volume 26, Number 3 - 2007

Project Homepage | Paper PDF | Videos: Official Video   Unofficial YouTube Video   

Stroke Pattern Analysis and Synthesis

Pascal Barla, Simon Breslav, Joëlle Thollot, François Sillion, Lee Markosian

Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics 2006), Volume 25 - 2006

Project Homepage | Paper PDF

Tech Reports

Interactive Hatching and Stippling by Example

Pascal Barla, Simon Breslav, Joëlle Thollot, Lee Markosian

Technical Report , INRIA - 2006.

Project Homepage | Paper PDF

 Selected Art

Illustrations

10 Fairytale Illustrations

Simon Breslav

The Search For Unrational Leadership by Charles Fleetham
Paperback/Hardcover: 364 pages; Right Brain Books, LLC (April 1, 2005)

Comics

Dyslexia

Simon Breslav

empty pockets 2
The Wooden Book Press
September 2006, Ann Arbor, MI

A 6 page comic strip published in a 268 page student compilation.

You Suck at Programming, please stop!

Simon Breslav

Self Published, 6 pages, ~100 copies, February 2006, Ann Arbor, MI

Lone Carrot

Simon Breslav

Self Published, 16 pages, ~100 copies, January 2006, Ann Arbor, MI

Paintings & Drawings