Luiz Velho

Born|  (1956-06-05) 5 June 1956 (age 69)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Citizenship| Brazilian
Known for| 4-8 Subdivision Scheme
Awards| National Order of Scientific Merit (2010)
Scientific career
Fields| Applied Mathematics
Institutions| IMPA
Thesis| Piecewise Description of Implicit Surfaces and Solids (1994)
Doctoral advisor| Demetri Terzopoulos

Luiz Carlos Pacheco Rodrigues Velho (born 5 June 1956) is a Brazilian applied mathematician working primarily on computer graphics and computer vision. He is a full researcher and professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) and leading scientist of VISGRAF, laboratory that conducts researches in the field of modeling, rendering, imaging, and animation.[1][2]

In 2010, Luiz Velho received the National Order of Scientific Merit for his scientific and technical contributions.[3] In 2005, he was keynote speaker in Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, in Vienna.

His academic background includes a BE in industrial design from ESDI-UERJ, a specialization in computer science from PUC-Rio, a MS in computer graphics from the MIT Media Lab, a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Toronto and a postdoctoral fellowship in applied mathematics from IMPA.[4]

## Selected publications

* Luiz Velho and Jonas Gomes. "Digital Halftoning with Space Filling Curves". Computer Graphics, 25(4):81–90, 1991.
* Luiz Velho and Denis Zorin. "4-8 Subdivision". Computer-Aided Geometric Design, 18(5):397–427, 2001. Special Issue on Subdivision Techniques.
* Jingdan Zhang, Kun Zhou, Luiz Velho, Baining Guo, and Heung-Yeung. "Synthesis of Progressively Variant Textures on Arbitrary Surfaces". ACM Transactions on Graphics, 22(3):295–302, July 2003.

## References

1. ↑ "Personal webpage of Luiz Velho". http://lvelho.impa.br/.
2. ↑ "Institucional webpage of Luiz Velho". IMPA. http://www.impa.br/opencms/pt/pesquisa/pesquisa_pesquisadores/pesquisadores_luiz_velho/pesquisadores_luiz_velho.html.
3. ↑ "CRC Press". https://www.crcpress.com/authors/i207-luiz-velho.
4. ↑ "Curriculum vitae of Luiz Velho". http://lattes.cnpq.br/9500245604678806.

## External links

* Mathematics Genealogy Project
* Biography

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