Publications
 Refereed Publications
 2008

Bronson, J., Rheingans, P. and Olano, M. 2008. Semi-automatic stencil creation through error minimization. In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (Annecy, France, June 9 - 11, 2008). NPAR 2008.

Joshi, A. and Rheingans, P. 2008. Evaluation of illustration-inspired techniques for time-varying data visualization. In Proceedings of the Eurographics/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization (Eindhoven, Netherlands, May 26-28, 2008). EuroVis 2008.

 2007

Wortman, D. 2007. Visualizing trends in student performance across computer science courses. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Covington, Kentucky, USA, March 7 - 10, 2007). SIGCSE 2007. 430-434.

Kundu, K. and Olano, M. 2007. Tissue resection using delayed updates in a tetrahedral mesh. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (Long Beach, California, February 6 - 9, 2007). MMVR '07. IOS Press, Washington, DC, 241-243.

 2006

Shopf, J. and Olano, M. 2006. Procedural haptic texture. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (Montreux, Switzerland, October 15 - 18, 2006). UIST '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 179-186.

 2005

Komlodi, A., Rheingans, P., Ayachit, U., Goodall, J. R., and Joshi, A. 2005. A User-centered Look at Glyph-based Security Visualization. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshops on Visualization For Computer Security (October 26 - 26, 2005). VIZSEC. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 3.

Goodall, J. R., Lutters, W. G., Rheingans, P., and Komlodi, A. 2005. Preserving the Big Picture: Visual Network Traffic Analysis with TN. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshops on Visualization For Computer Security (October 26 - 26, 2005). VIZSEC. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 6.

John R. Goodall, A. Ant Ozok, Wayne G. Lutters, Penny Rheingans, Anita Komlodi: A user-centered approach to visualizing network traffic for intrusion detection. CHI Extended Abstracts 2005: 1403-1406

Marc Olano, Modified Noise for Evaluation on Graphics Hardware, Proceedings of Graphics Hardware 2005, Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH, July 2005.

Alark Joshi and Penny Rheingans, Illustration-inspired techniques for visualizing time-varying data, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005.

Poonam Shanbhag, Penny Rheingans, and Marie desJardins. Temporal Visualization of Planning Polygons for Efficient Partitioning of Geo-Spatial Data, Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization 2005.

Eleanor Chlan and Penny Rheingans. Multivariate Glyphs for Multi-Object Clusters. Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization 2005.

Srinivas Bhagavatula, Penny Rheingans, and Marie desJardins (2005). Discovering High-level Parameters for Visualization Design, Proceedings of Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, pp. 255-262.

 2004

E. B. Chlan, Penny Rheingans: A Botanically Inspired High-Dimensional Visualization with Multivariate Glyphs. VisSym 2004: 231-236, 349

Penny Rheingans: Expressive Volume Rendering. WSCG 2004: 7-10

Gevorg Grigoryan and Penny Rheingans (2004). Point-based Probabilistic Surfaces to Show Surface Uncertainty, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, no. 10, vol. 5, 2004, pp. 564-573.

 2003

Marc Olano, Bob Kuehne and Maryann Simmons. "Automatic Shader Level of Detail". Proceedings of Graphics Hardware 2003, Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH, July 2003.10

Jonathan D. Cohen, Dinesh Manocha, Marc Olano: Successive Mappings: An Approach to Polygonal Mesh Simplification with Guaranteed Error Bounds. Int. J. Comput. Geometry Appl. 13(1): 61 (2003)

David S. Ebert, Penny Rheingans: Procedural volume modeling, rendering, and visualization. Data Visualization: The State of the Art 2003: 317-332

Aidong Lu, Christopher Morris, Joe Taylor, David Ebert, Charles Hansen, Penny Rheingans, and Mark Hartner (2003). Illustrative Interactive Stipple Rendering, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol.9, no. 2, pp. 127-138, April-June 2003.

 2002

Kishalay Kundu, Chad Sessions, Marie desJardins and Penny Rheingans (2002). Three-dimensional Visualization of Hierarchical Task Network Plans, Proceedings of the 3rd International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling in Space 2002.

Bradley Lowekamp, Penny Rheingans, Terry S. Yoo: Exploring Surface Characteristics with Interactive Gaussian Images (A Case Study). IEEE Visualization 2002

Aidong Lu, Christopher Morris, David Ebert, Penny Rheingans, and Charles Hansen (2002). Non-photorealistic Volume Rendering Using Stippling Techniques, Proceedings of IEEE Visualizaton 2002 , pp. 211-218.

Gevorg Grigoryan and Penny Rheingans (2002). Probabalistic Surfaces: Point Based Primitives to Show Surface Uncertainty, Proceedings of IEEE Visualizaton 2002 , pp. 147-154.

Penny Rheingans: Are We There Yet? Exploring With Dynamic Visualization. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 22(1): 6-10 (2002)

David Ebert, Christopher Morris, Penny Rheingans, and Terry Yoo (2002). Designing Effective Transfer Functions for Volume Rendering from Photographic Volumes, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 7, pp. 183-197.

 2001

Bryan Morse, Terry S. Yoo, Penny Rheingans, David T. Chen, and K.R. Subramanian (2001). Interpolating Implicit Surfaces from Scattered Surface Data Using Compactly Supported Radial Basis Functions. Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications '01, IEEE Computer Society Press, May 2001, pp. 89-98.

Olano, Marc, Shrijeet Mukherjee, Angus Dorbie, "Vertex-based Anisotropic Texturing", Proceedings of the 2001 SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware (Los Angeles, CA, August 12-13, 2001), ACM SIGGRAPH, New York, 2001.

Penny Rheingans and David Ebert (2001). Volume Illustration: Non-Photorealistic Rendering of Volume Models. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol 7, no 3, pp. 253-264.

 2000

David Ebert and Penny Rheingans (2000). Volume Illustration: Non-Photorealistic Rendering of Volume Models. Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '00, pp. 195-200.

David Ebert, Tim McClanahan, Penny Rheingans and Terry Yoo (2000). Direct Volume Rendering of Photographic Data. Data Visualization '00, Proceedings of the Joint Eurographics and IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, pp. 137-146.

Mark S. Peercy, Marc Olano, John Airey, P. Jeffrey Ungar: Interactive multi-pass programmable shading. SIGGRAPH 2000: 425-432

Penny Rheingans and Marie desJardins(2000). Visualizing High-Dimensional Predictive Model Quality. Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '00, pp, 493-496.

Marie desJardins and Penny Rheingans (2000). Visualization of High-Dimensional Model Characteristics. Proceedings of New Paradigms in Information Visualization, ACM Press, pp. 6-9.

Andrej Cedilnik and Penny Rheingans(2000). Procedural Annotation of Uncertain Information. Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '00, pp. 77-84.

 1999

Brian Cabral, Marc Olano, Philip Nemec: Reflection Space Image Based Rendering. SIGGRAPH 1999: 165-170

Terry S. Yoo, Penny Rheingans: Digital Design of a Surgical Simulator for Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. IEEE Visualization 1999: 393-396

Penny Rheingans (1999). Task-based Color Scale Design. Proceedings of Applied Image and Pattern Recognition '99, SPIE, pp. 35-43.

Marie desJardins, Penny Rheingans: Visualization of High-Dimensional Model Characteristics. Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation 1999: 6-8

Penny Rheingans and Shrikant Joshi (1999). Visualization of Molecules with Positional Uncertainty. Data Visualization '99, Proceedings of the Joint Eurographics and IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, Vienna, Austria, pp. 299-306.

 1998

Jonathan D. Cohen, Marc Olano, Dinesh Manocha: Appearance-Perserving Simplification. SIGGRAPH 1998: 115-122

Marc Olano, Anselmo Lastra: A Shading Language on Graphics Hardware: The Pixelflow Shading System. SIGGRAPH 1998: 159-168

 1997

Jonathan D. Cohen, Dinesh Manocha, Marc Olano: Simplifying polygonal models using successive mappings. IEEE Visualization 1997: 395-402

Marc Olano and Trey Greer, "Triangle Scan Conversion Using 2D Homogeneous Coordinates", Proceedings of the 1997 SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Penny Rheingans (1997). Dynamic Color Mapping of Bivariate Qualitative Data. Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '97, pp. 159-166.

Dan Drake, Thomas Simpson, Larry Smithmier, Penny Rheingans: Determination of unknown particle charges in a thunder cloud based upon detected electric field vectors. IEEE Visualization 1997: 479-482

Holly E. Rushmeier, Harrison H. Barrett, Penny Rheingans, Samuel P. Uselton, Andrew Watson: Perceptual measures for effective visualizations. IEEE Visualization 1997: 515-517

 1996

Penny Rheingans (1996). Opacity-modulating Triangular Textures for Irregular Surfaces. Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '96, pp. 219-225.

 1995

Marc Olano, Jonathan D. Cohen, Mark R. Mine, Gary Bishop: Combatting Rendering Latency. SI3D 1995: 19-24, 204

Anselmo Lastra, Steven Molnar, Marc Olano, Yulan Wang: Real-Time Programmable Shading. SI3D 1995: 59-66, 207

Penny Rheingans and John Nichols (1995). Interactive 3D Visualization of Actual Anatomy and Simulated Chemical Time-course Data for Fish. Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '95, pp. 393-396.

Penny Rheingans and Chris Landreth (1995). Perceptual Principles for Effective Visualizations. In Perceptual Issues in Visualization, Georges Grinstein and Haim Levkowitz, eds. Springer-Verlag, pp. 59-74.

 1992

Jeff Butterworth, Andrew Davidson, Stephen Hench, Marc Olano: 3DM: A Three Dimensional Modeler Using a Head-Mounted Display. SI3D 1992: 135-138

Penny Rheingans (1992). Color, Change, and Control for Quantitative Data Display. Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '92, pp. 252-259.

Theresa-Marie Rhyne, M. Bolstad, Penny Rheingans, L. Petterson, W. Shackelford, Mike E. Botts, E. Pepke, K. W. Johnson, William L. Hibbard, Charles R. Dyer, Brian E. Paul, Lloyd Treinish: Visualization Requirements in the Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (Five Case Study Reports). IEEE Visualization 1992: 428-435

 1986

David S. Reiner, Gretchen Brown, Mark Friedell, John Lehman, Richard McKee, Penny Rheingans, Arnon Rosenthal: A Database Designer's Workbench. ER 1986: 347-360

 Dissertations

Alark Joshi. "Art-Inspired Techniques for Visualizing Time-Varying Data", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, November 2007.

Eleanor Chlan. "Botanically Inspired Visualization: Exploring Hierarchical Data Sets with Extent and Variation", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, June 2005.

Marc Olano, "A Programmable Pipeline for Graphics Hardware", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 1998.

 Theses

Jonathan Decker. "System of Bound Particles for Interactive Flow Visualization", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, December 2007.

Jason Pearlman. "Visualizing network security events using compound glyphs from a service-oriented perspective", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, May 2007.

Patrick Gillespie. "Perceptually Oriented Patch Based Texture Synthesis", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, January 2006.

Jermey Shopf. "Interactive Rendering of Heterogeneous Translucent Objects", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, December 2006.

Joshua Barczak. "Interactive Illumination Using Large Sets of Point Lights", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, January 2006.

Kamalika Das. "A Web-based Interactive Visualization Tool to Explore Patterns of Amino Acid Substitution", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, September 2005.

Aimee Joshua. "Modeling and Rendering of Mold on Cut Wood", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, May 2005.

Hanli Ni "Hybrid 3D-Model Representation Through Quadric Metrics and Hardware Accelerated Point-Based Rendering", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, May 2005.

Simone' Thomas. "Morphing Materials: Capturing Tangible Material Properties in Pen-and-Ink Style Rendering", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, 2005.

Yi Wang. "GPU Based Cloth Simulation on Moving Avatars", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, 2005.

Srinivas Bhagavatula. "Exploring the Volume Illustration Parameter Space", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, December 2004.

Namita Parab "Refining Implicit Models", M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, 2003.

 Patents

Ellson, Richard, Lawrence Ray and Marc Olano for Eastman Kodak Company, "Method and Apparatus for Performing Real-Time Computer Animation", US Patent #5,455,902, October 1995.

 Tech Reports

Olano, Marc and Bob Kuehne, "SGI OpenGL Shader™ Level-of-Detail White Paper", SGI Document 007-4555-001, 2002.

Olano, Marc and Michael North, "Normal Distribution Mapping", UNC Computer Science Technical Report 97-041, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1997.

Olano, Marc, Anselmo Lastra and Jon Leech, "Procedural Primitives in a High Performance, Hardware Accelerated, Z-Buffer Renderer", UNC Computer Science Technical Report 97-040, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1997.

Cohen, Jon, Dinesh Manocha and Marc Olano, "Simplifying Polygonal Models using Successive Mappings", UNC Computer Science Technical Report 97-011, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1997. (Tech-report version of the IEEE Visualization '97 paper).

Cohen, Jon and Marc Olano, "Low Latency Rendering on Pixel-Planes 5", UNC Computer Science Technical Report 94-028, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1994.

Yoo, Terry S. and T. Marc Olano, "Instant Hole (Windows onto Reality)", UNC Computer Science Technical Report 93-027, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1993.

Olano, T. Marc and Terry S. Yoo, "Precision Normals (Beyond Phong)", UNC Computer Science Technical Report 93-021, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1993.