Greg Foss Resume

GREG FOSS

Computer Graphics Artist

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Carnegie Mellon University
300 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
(412) 531-5424 / email foss"at"psc.edu

Collaborating with scientists and engineers from across the United States, I build presentation and print quality data visualization and illustrative computer graphics and animation.

EXPERIENCE:

Scientific Visualization Specialist, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh, since 1993.

Work together with PSC researchers and staff to produce scientific data visualization animations and images using AVS5, Ensight, ParaView, POV-Ray, VMD and in-house software.
Create illustrative animations and images (currently using Maya, previously SoftImage) to introduce visualizations, provide background and illustrate fundamental research concepts.
Design and supervise production, and compose artwork for, PSC's annual scientific visualization 2x3' calendar poster.
Represent the PSC with computer generated imagery at conferences, competitions and exhibitions: 2005 and 2006 finalist in the National Science Foundation's Visualization Challenge, ACM SIGGRAPH Animation Festival 1994, 1996 (screening rooms) and 1997 (Electronic Theater).
Created, and maintain, a scientific visualization gallery for the PSC's web site with images, animations, text, links to the researchers' sites and corresponding articles in our Projects in Scientific Computing.
Previously for this position:
Built interactive stereoscopic animations using CAVE software and rear-projection screen.
Produced videos using In-sync Speed Razor nonlinear editing system to combine data visualizations with explanatory animations and narration for the center's directors and researchers for presentation, exhibition and teaching aids.
Choreographed imported CAD data to animate a walk-through the then unbuilt University Center for a fundraising video in cooperation with the Carnegie Mellon University Media Design and Production Center.
Coordinated and prepared a user's graphics material for an exhibit at The Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, on the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet's collision with Jupiter.

Director of 3-D Graphics, Instant Replay Video Productions, Cincinnati, 1988-1993.

Designed 3-D computer graphics projects for broadcast and corporate communication video including concept, storyboards, collaboration with 2-D graphics and production designers.
Modeled and choreographed 3-D animations using SoftImage and Vertigo.
Presented a weekly seminar and demonstration on 3-D graphics to clients and staff.
Received an Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Ohio Valley Chapter, for animated graphics in the regionally broadcast special effects show, "The Magic of Television," 1990.
Performed systems administration for the 3-D graphics lab.

Computer Graphics Animator, Cranston/Csuri Productions, Columbus, Ohio, 1987.

Completed computer animation production training program using C/CP proprietary graphics software (on Vax 11/780, and Sun workstations).

Graduate Teaching Associate, College of the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 1985-1987.

Taught 2-D and 3-D computer graphics course in modeling and scene design using Amigas, Apples and in-house (OSU-CGRG) software.
Managed labs and assisted with student projects.

EDUCATION:

Master of Arts, Computer Graphics and Animation, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (formerly Computer Graphics Research Group), The Ohio State University, Columbus, 1987.

Completed computer graphics and animation curriculum including modeling techniques, scene building, animation and C programming using in-house (OSU-CGRG) software (on Vax 11/780, and Sun workstations).
Designed and constructed thesis project gallery installation of backlit display boxes, Cibachrome transparencies, and looped animation video.
Contributed modeling and graphic design to David Haumann's "Dynamic Simulation of Flexible Objects," which received Second Place in the research computer graphics category, International Computer Animation Competition, National Computer Graphics Association, 1988, and was shown at the Electronic Theatre, ACM SIGGRAPH, Anaheim, 1987.

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics, College of the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 1983.

Completed intensive ceramics program including potter's wheel and handbuilding, casting and mold construction, clay and glaze chemistry, kiln design and construction, various firing techniques and an overview of commercial production methods.
Received "President's Scholarship Recognition" for academic excellence.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS and EXHIBITIONS:

"Black Holes," Animation. Included in the program "Naked Science: Monster Black Holes," National Geographic Channel, broadcast December, 2008.

"Geodynamo," Animations. Included in the planetarium show series "Sky Tonight," Pacific Science Center, Seattle, March 6-9, 2008.

"Supercell Thunderstorm Simulation Visualization," Animations. Included in the program "It Could Happen Tomorrow," The Weather Channel broadcast and included in their accompanying website, January 22, 2006.

"Axon Forest," Image. With Greg Hood, PSC, and John Burkardt, University of Florida, Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Winter 2004.

"Simulation of 1994 Northridge Earthquake Aftershock," Animation. Electronic Theatre, ACM SIGGRAPH Annual Conference and Exhibition, Los Angeles, 1997.

"Helix-Helix Packing," Image illustrating the article: "Computer Graphics." The World Book Encyclopedia(1997 ed.), World Book Publishing, Chicago, 1997.

"Pump Up the Volume," Animation included in the video: Journey into a Living Cell, Carnegie Science Center's Buhl Planetarium in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1996.

"Formation of Accretion Disks and Jets Around Black Holes," Animation shown in the Screening Rooms, ACM SIGGRAPH Annual Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, 1996.

"Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Planet Jupiter: An Introductory Representation of the Impact," "Tornado Watch (Run Toto, Run!)," "An Example of Helix-Helix Packing," Animations. SIGGRAPH 95 Video Review - An Issue Concerning Scientific Visualization, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1995.

"Pump Up the Volume," Animation shown in the Screening Rooms, ACM SIGGRAPH Annual Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, Florida, 1994.

"Pump Up the Volume," Image. Supercomputing '94 Calendar, 1994.

GREG FOSS

EXPERIENCE:

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS and EXHIBITIONS:

Published and Exhibited Images and Videos

Visualization Collaborations

Samples of scientific visualizations and illustrations / use 'BACK' to return