This my home page at the University of Toronto.

For my PhD thesis I worked on a new approach to the free-form modeling of surfaces and the reconstruction of surfaces from 3D data samples. The work combines physically based modeling and self-organizing primitive surface elements to create dynamic shapes of arbitrary topology.

D. Tonnesen, Dynamically Coupled Particle Systems for Geometric Modeling, Reconstruction, and Animation , Ph. D. Thesis, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, November, 1998.

My research interests include, though are not limited to, the following:

• Computer graphics
• Physically based modeling
• Geometric sculpting
• Computational geometry
• Virtual environments
• Emergent systems
• Confluence of art and technology

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