Alexander Dovzhenko's Cinematic Visions

Cinematic Color

This class presents an introduction to the color pipelines behind modern feature-film visual-effects and animation. Color impacts many areas of the computer graphics pipeline. From texture painting to lighting, rendering to compositing, and from image display to the theater, handling color is a tricky problem. Tired of getting your images right on the monitor, only to have them fall apart later...

Utopian Visions of Mexican Grandeur Rooted in Natural Abundance: Dreams Inspired by Alexander von Humboldtâ•Žs Political Essay

Constraint - Based Cinematic Editing

This work presents a computer-based motion-picture editing system capable of the automatic generation of narrative sequences which conform to simple constraints of character emphasis, length, pacing, and chronology. The cinematic content model used to generate the sequences is presented, and practical methods for gathering content data during movie production are proposed. The details of the sy...

What is Cinematic Cartography ?

Maps are ubiquitous in movies. They appear constantly and in a variety of forms: hung on the wall of a classroom, framed in an office, and unfolded by gangsters on a table. In movies maps serve a variety of purposes: They serve as decoration, as a means of location, to aid narration, as metaphors as well as to increase the dramatic tension of a sequence. They can play a prominent role in the un...

Cinematic Particle Systems with OpenCL

High-particle-count simulations are becoming increasingly crucial in many different aspects of our world today: both in entertainment — within video games, movies, and the like — and in scientific fields, where particle systems are capable of simulating and visualizing many interesting phenomena. This paper will explore the possibility of parallelizing the simulation of these large particle sys...