Paul Fishwick
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Title: Leveraging the Arts for Modeling & Simulation
Biography
Biography: Paul Fishwick
Abstract
Since its inception, computer graphics has played a major role in several areas such as computer-aided design, game development, and computer animation. Through the use of computer graphics, we enjoy artificial realities and the ability to draw figures within a flexible electronic medium. Computer simulation in computer graphics is generally construed to be one where the simulation is used to achieve realistic behavioral effects. But what if the naturally art-based design approaches in graphics could be used to visualize and manipulate the mathematical models used as the basis of simulation? This direction suggests that graphics, and the arts, can affect how we represent complex models. I’ll present approaches used in our Creative Automata Laboratory to reframe models as works of art that maintain an aesthetic appeal, and yet are highly functional, and mathematically precise.