Prof. David Luebke received a B.A. in Chemistry from Colorado College in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina in 1998. He joined the University of Virginia faculty in Fall 1998 as an assistant professor.
Prof. Luebke's research focuses on the field of computer graphics, especially the problem of rendering very complex scenes at interactive rates. Though graphics hardware continues to improve, the complexity of the scenes we would like to render seems to grow even faster. Software techniques such as polygonal simplification and occlusion culling help reduce the complexity to manageable levels.
Prof. Luebke's work has centered on dynamic and view-dependent approaches to these techniques. The driving application for this work has been massive model rendering, the interactive walkthrough and inspection of extremely complex CAD models such as buildings, submarines, satellites, and power plants. A topic of great interest to government and industry, the graphics, database, and memory management challenges of rendering massive CAD models provide an exciting real-world research problem.
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