James McCrae

About Me:

I am currently a research intern at Autodesk. I will be returning to the University of Toronto in September to begin the Ph. D. program. In April 2008, I completed my M. Sc. at the University of Toronto, supervised by Karan Singh and working with the DGP research group. I received my B. Sc. from the University of Toronto in April 2006.

Publications:

• Sketching Piecewise Clothoid Curves (Best paper, Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, 2008)
• Contributor to Real-Time Line Drawing for Animated Surfaces (Conditionally accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2008)

Research:

• Sketch-Based Path Design (M. Sc. Thesis)

Graduate Course Projects:

• Master Rai and Student Jin (Animation for CSC2529)
• Impressionist Painter (Project for CSC2521)
• Painterly Rendering for Animation (Project for CSC2521)
• Contour Chaining for Stroke Stylization (Project for CSC2521)

Past Academic Employment:

• Research Student - Barzda Group, Dept. of Chemical and Physical Sciences, UTM (Summer 2005 - Spring 2006)
• TA for CSC320 - Introduction to Visual Computing (Winter 2005)
• TA for CSC350 - Numerical Algebra and Optimization (Fall 2004)
• TA for CSC108 - Introduction to Computer Programming (Winter 2004)