DAVID BOCK
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Lead Visualization
Programmer National |
Professor Computer Science |
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Graphic Design
School of Art and Design,
University of Illinois
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2004
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M.A., Art Education
School of Art &
Design, University of Illinois
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2002
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B.S., Electrical
Engineering
Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale
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1987
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PROFESSIONAL
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Lead Visualization Programmer NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
2017 - present
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Professor
Computer Science
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2000 - present
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Senior Visualization Programmer NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
2015 - 2017
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Visualization Programmer NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
1997 - 2015
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Computer Graphics Manager/R&D Software Development TerraGlyph Interactive Studios, Big
Idea Productions, |
1995 - 1997 |
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Senior Graphics Researcher Andersen Consulting, |
1993 - 1995
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Scientific Graphics Software Developer, Animator |
1990 - 1993
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Graphics Research Programmer NCSA, Aviation Research Lab, |
1989 - 1990
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Electrical & Avionics Engineer McDonnell Aircraft Company, Coles-Moultrie Electric Cooperative, |
1987 - 1989
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RESEARCH
Visualization Rendering
Research, design
and development of custom advanced rendering software for visualizing
high-dimensional scientific data. Techniques include physically-based,
distributed ray-tracing, GPU (GLSL) hardware shading, integration of
volumetric, geometric, quadric, lines, and points in a single scene, abuffer particle system integration, bi-directional
reflectance functions (BRDF), volume scattering with real-world absorption,
scattering, and emission properties and volumetric phase functions, deep-map
shadows, non-photorealistic rendering, motion blur, depth-of-field, key-frame
animation editor, color-map editor, ambient occlusion, and support for 360
degree spherical projection VR display. Software system has been used to visualize
data from a variety of computational simulations including density currents,
turbulent boundary layers, hurricane development, binary neutron stars, 3D
Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, tornado-producing thunderstorms, wind-farm
simulations, and AMR (adaptive mesh refinement) galaxy clusters. This work has
been featured in the book Visual Computing, publications including
Computer Graphics World, Physics World, and Astronomy Magazine, and presentations at SIGGRAPH,
XSEDE, PEARC and Supercomputing conferences. Click thumbnails for imagery.
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Visualization
Representation
Research and development of
representation methods and algorithms to visualize high-dimensional scientific
data. Particle is a particle systems generator and renderer
to provide a more accurate and realistic representation of high-density vector
data. This software was developed to simulate the results achieved from
real-world smoke chamber tests as a way of analyzing complex, high-density
vector data. The system has been successfully used to visualize
astrophysical gas dynamic data and wind data circulating around structures and
in film Data-Driven shown at SIGGRAPH
1993 Electronic Theater. Vsurf generates
iso-surfaces from volume data. The algorithm used to determine polygonal
surfaces is an implementation based on the method described by Wyvill, Wyvill, and McPheeters in Visual Computer - August
1986. The software eliminates the common holes problem within surfaces
generated from the popular Marching Cubes algorithm. Program was used for
various visualization productions and images and in film Caustic Sky shown at SIGGRAPH 1992 Electronic Theater. Click
thumbnails for imagery.
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Collaborative, Remote
Visualization
Researched and developed a C++ API
to provide scientific visualization functionality in a collaborative,
heterogeneous computing environment. Applications written with this API
were capable of operating across a spectrum of platforms including virtual reality
environments (i.e. CAVE, IDesk, IWall),
graphics workstations, personal computers, or within a web
browser. Software provided applications with the ability to share
information among participants through standard message passing. Use of
this API allowed application developers to write, without requiring prior
knowledge, programs that render and display across different software and
hardware architectures. Software also provided the capability for participants
to remotely view a rendered scene in a standard web browser. Click thumbnail
for imagery.
Virtual Workplace
Designed and co-developed a distributed,
shared, 3D virtual workplace environment that served to prototype next
generation workspaces. This research was demonstrated at the Andersen
Consulting Global Consulting Seminar. This system provided shared agent
representations of users within a graphical world of interactive, 3D
information spaces enabling users to share, point, and view one another. Click thumbnail for imagery.
Information Visualization
Initiated and developed research initiative within Andersen
Consulting's Center for Strategic Technology Research to visualize abstract
information spaces. Involved tool development and collaborative client
projects to represent business information in intuitive, multi-sensory
forms. Produced and animated film showing the economic growth of
industries within Andersen Consulting over a five year period. Film
showcased at annual Partner conference. Click thumbnails for imagery.
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Toon Extraction
Research and development of software
tools to extract and re-use information from 2D hand-drawn cel
sequences for 3D applications and game creation. Motion Mapper maps 2D cel-animated, character
motion to 3D joints and skeletons used in standard 3D animation
packages. Software also employs FFT transformation on the input data by
filtering in the frequency domain to reduce and remove input noise as well as
alter the motion. Contour Extractor
extracts outlines of painted regions from 2D digitized cel
images. Software employs visualization principles of iso-contouring to identify and contour painted regions based on color
information and writes out outlines as geometry for interactive viewing or use
with standard animation packages. Shadow
generator automatically generates shadows (body and cast shadows) from 2D cel-animated character sequences. Software uses input
such as light direction, coverage, shadow colors and opacity and outputs shadow
files to composite for final game animation sequences. Click thumbnails for imagery.
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Music
Information Design
Researching and
implementing techniques, methodologies, and tools for developing novel forms of
designing information in the areas of music, music education, and the jazz
genre. Techniques include metaphorical music mapping (using visual metaphors
and human body movement to map and convey melody, harmony, rhythm), mapping
musical concepts (such as note frequency and target notes) outside scope of
standard notation, representing relationships between sound and music,
intensity mapping and harmonic palettes, complementing visual design with ASL
(American Sign Language), bar-coded representations (shape/proportion mapping
for visualization of song structure and instrumental relationships). Software
development includes midi processor, 3D animation system plug-ins, and music
visualization system. Click thumbnails for imagery.
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Space-Time
Synthesis
Exploring spatial and temporal
simultaneity and employing time as a design element for developing new forms of
informational and abstract designs. Investigating methods such as simultaneous
display of time-based events, missing and replacing
time sequences, interlacing spatial fragments, and juxtaposition of time-based
events spatially in three-dimensions to represent information through multiple
perspectives. Exploring novel methods of non-linear
sequencing and frame-rate modification to allow for emotion, narrative, and
expression. Software system allows designers to move a plane through
three-dimensional space of time-based sequences at different speeds to create
new sequences. Time-based imagery can be synchronized to a music track through
expressive movement to create new sequences with music. Click thumbnails for imagery.
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MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
NOAA Coral Reef Information System
Florida's
Changing Coral Reefs, Jul. 2021
HPC wire
NCSA Visualization of Powerful Joplin, Mo. Storm Gives New Insights Into Torndao Formation, Sep. 2018
Science Node
How Do Tornadoes Begin?, Sep. 2018
Physics World magazine
Predicting
the Whirlwind, Volume 30 No 7, Jul. 2017
PBS News Hour
Supercomputers dive into the
hearts of nature's worst tornados, Apr. 2017
HPC wire
Researchers
Recreate 'El Reno' Tornado on Blue Waters Supercomputer, Mar. 2017
Gizmodo
Peer
into monster tornado with this incredible simulation, Mar. 2017
Popular Science
Supercomputer
simulation of a devastating tornado, Mar. 2017
FOX News, St. Louis
Stunning
new tornado simulation unlock secrets, Feb. 2017
Coalition for Academic Scientific
Computation (CASC) brochure
Pumping Iron into the Universe,
2017
Manmade Twisters, 2016
Simulated Wind Farms, 2016
Cosmic Journeys
SuperTornado:
Anatomy of a MegaDisaster, Dec. 2015
Science News
Virtual
twister reveals possible source of tornado longevity, Sep. 2015
Slate magazine
Breathtaking
Simulation of a Tornado-Producing Thunderstorm Looks Amazingly Real, Aug.
2015
The Weather Network
Supercomputer
storm blurs the lines between sim and reality, Aug. 2015
Science Node
Photorealistic
thunderstorm visualization wins XSEDE15 people's choice award, Aug. 2015
Wind Energy journal
Effects of
turbine spacing on the power output of extended wind-farms, Mar. 2015
American Institute of Physics
Wind
Energy: On the grid, Off the Checkerboard, Mar. 2015
International Science Grid This Week
Large
eddy simulation shows limits of downstream wind turbines, Aug. 2014
Extreme
scale video image retrieval and research, Sept. 2013
NCSA Access magazine
Duo Image, Fall
2012
NCSA Access magazine
Oscillons, Lumps in the Primordial Soup, Fall 2009
University of Illinois, Engineering in
the News
Swirling Strengths,
2008
Fluid Motion conference
Vortex Visualization in Gravity
Currents, 2007
NCSA Access magazine
Swirling
strengths, Summer 2007
PBS Nova
Monster of the Milky
Way, Oct. 2006
NCSA Access magazine, Summer 2006
National Science Foundation News, 2007
Mikel Rouse, Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts, 2005
Visualization Handbook
Academic Press, Hansen/Johnson, ISBN
978-0123875822, 2004
Computer Graphics with OpenGL
Prentice Hall, Hearns/Baker, ISBN
978-0130153906, 2004
Developing Virtual Reality Applications:
Foundations of Effective Design
Morgan Kaufmann, Craig/Sherman/Will,
ISBN 978-0123749437, 2002
Visual Computing
Scientific American Library book, Friedhoff/Peercy,
ISBN 978-0716750598, 2000
SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Graphics Hardware
Workshop
Real-time Shading Languages, Pat
Hanrahan, Stanford University, 1999
Computer Graphics World
May 1999 issue
Physics Today
September 1999 issue
Astronomy Magazine
August 1999 issue
Discovery Channel
Science Live television show, 1999
Scientific Computing World
August/September 1999
PRESENTATIONS
PEARC 21 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2021
Visualization of Florida’s Coral Reef
Supercomputing 20 conference
Scientific Visualization & Data
Analytics Showcase Technical Program, Nov. 2020
The Diurnal Beating of the Amazonian Hydroclimate
PEARC 20 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2020
Beating of the Amazon
PEARC 19 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2019
Flight Paths: Mapping Our Changing Neighborhoods
PEARC 19 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2019
Visualization of Hurricane Michael
PEARC 18 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2018
Visual Representation of the Joplin Tornadic Storm
Supercomputing 17 conference
Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics
Showcase Technical Program, Nov. 2017
Simulation and Visual Representation of Tropical Cyclone-Ocean
Interactions
PEARC 17 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2017
Visualization of Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interactions
XSEDE ECSS Symposium
Visualization of Simulated White Dwarf Collisions as a Primary
Channel for Type Ia Supernovae
David Bock, NCSA, Jun. 2017
XSEDE 16 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2016
Visualization of Simulated White Dwarf Collisions as a Primary
Channel for Type Ia Supernovae
Supercomputing 15 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2015
Visualization of a Tornado-Producing Thunderstorm: A Study of
Visual Representation
XSEDE 15 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2015
Visualization of a Tornado-Producing Thunderstorm
XSEDE 14 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2014
Visualization of Large Eddy Simulations of Extended Wind Farms
XSEDE 13 conference
Visualization Showcase, July 2013
Movie-cube: Spatial representation of time-based media
Visualization of vortical structures
from DNS of spatially developing turbulent boundary layers
HASTAC 2013 conference
Large-Scale video analytics
XSEDE ECSS Symposium
DNS of Spatially Developing Turbulent Boundary Layers
David Bock and Darren Adams, NCSA,
Sept. 2012
SIGGRAPH '00 conference
Invited panel presentation, July 2000
Visualizing the Cosmos: smoke or
mirrors?
SIGGRAPH '99
conference, RenderMan Users group
Invited talk, Los Angeles, CA, July
1999
RenderMan
for Scientific Visualization and Effects
TeraGrid
New Users Workshop 2008
Advanced Application Support Visualization
School of Technology and Design
Invited talk, NYC College of
Technology, City University of New York, May 2005
Teaching Visualization
Ad Club of Champaign-Urbana
April Greiman
visit (distinguished LA-based graphic designer), Feb.
2004
Invited panelist
World of Science television program
Parkland community lecture series, 2004
Invited lecturer
Live and Learn television program
Parkland college series
Invited speaker, 2003
CIC Research
Computing Workshop
Invited talk, Penn State University
Visualization Rendering
MAPINT
conference, 1998
Invited talk, Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Dayton, OH
Collaborative Scientific Visualization
Center for
Research in Scientific Computing
Invited talk, North Carolina State
University, 1993
Scientific Visualization Productions
SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, 1993
Data Driven
SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, 1992
Caustic Sky
PUBLICATIONS
David Bock, Francina Dominguez, and Jorge Eiras-Barca. 2020.
“Beating of the Amazon: Visualizing the Diurnal Cycle of the
Amazonian Hydroclimatology.”
In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC
’20),
July 26–30, 2020, Portland, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2
pages.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3404535
David Bock and Brian Jewett. 2018.
“Visual Representation of the Joplin Tornadic Storm.”
In Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research
Computing (PEARC ’18).
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article
106, 1–3.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3219104.3229432
David Bock, Hui Lui, Ryan L. Sriver
“Simulation and Visual Representation of Tropical Cyclone-Ocean
Interactions” to appear in proceedings for
Supercomputing 17, The International Conference for High
Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
Nov. 2017
David Bock, 2017.
"Visualization of Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interactions."
In Proceedings of PEARC17, New Orleans, LA, USA, July 09-13, 2017.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3093338.3104149
Sisneros R., Raji M., Van Moer M.W., Bock D. (2016)
"Chasing Rainbows: A Color-Theoretic Framework for Improving and
Preserving Bad Colormaps."
In:Bebis G. et al. (eds)
Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
vol 10072. Springer, Cham
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50835-1_36
D. Bock, L. Orf, R. Sisneros,
"Visualization of a Tornado-Producing Thunderstorm: A Study
of Visual Representation",
Supercomputing 15, Nov. 2015.
V. Kuhn, R. Arora, A. Craig, M. Simeone, D. Bock, K. Franklin, L.
Marini,
"Large Scale Video Analytics: On-demand, iterative inquiry
for moving image research",
8th IEEE International Conference on eScience, Oct. 2012.
https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2012.6404446
McGrath, R.E., A. Craig, D. Bock, and R. Rocha. "Augmented Reality for an
Ethnobotany Workbook"
Technical Note, Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Social Sciences and
Arts (I-CHASS),
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2011
Cantero, M. I., S. Balachandar, M. H. Garcia, and D. Bock (2008),
"Turbulent structures in planar gravity currents and their influences
on the flow dynamics", J. Geophys. Res., 113,
C08010,
https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JC004645
P. Baker, D. Bock, R. Heiland, M.
Stephens, Visualization of Damaged
Structures,
Department of Defense, CEWES MSRC PET Annual Technical Report:
Year 2, Mar. 1998.
D. Bock, A. Craig, Collaborative
Scientific Visualization, Department of Defense,
PET/MSRC Conference Proceedings, Apr. 1998.
HONORS & AWARDS
Best Visualization, Supercomputing 20 conference
“The Diurnal Beating of the Amazonian Hydroclimate”
Nov. 2020
Best Visualization, PEARC19 conference
“Flight Paths: Mapping Our Changing Neighborhoods”
Jul. 2019
People's Choice Award for Best Visualization, XSEDE15 conference
"Visualization of a Tornado-Producing Thunderstorm"
Jul. 2015
People's Choice Award for Best Visualization, XSEDE14 conference
"Visualization of Large Eddy Simulations of Extended Wind
Farms"
Jul. 2014
NCSA Special Recognition Award
PEARC17 Visualization
Jun,
2017
NCSA Special Recognition Award
XSEDE 16 Visualization
Aug,
2016
NCSA Special Recognition Award
Oculus Rift Demonstration
Jan,
2016
ICCTA Outstanding Faculty Award, Parkland College
Illinois Community College Trustees Association
2006
Brodie Grant Award
College of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Art
and Design
Fall 2000
TEACHING
Courses developed and taught
Introduction to Programming – Introduction to programming w/
Python
Computer Science I (w/ C++) – Object-oriented design, programming
w/ C++
Computer Science II (w/ C++) – Object-oriented design, programming
w/ C++
Computer Science I (w/ Java) – Object-oriented design, programming
w/ Java
Computer Science II (w/ Java) – Advanced Java programming
Computer Graphics I – Real-time graphics programming w/ OpenGL
Computer Graphics II – Real-time shader programming w/ GLSL
Computer Graphics II – Scientific visualization and Virtual
Reality using NCSA CAVE
3D Computer Animation I – Introduction to 3Dmodeling, animation,
rendering
3D Computer Animation II – Animation and cinematography
3D Computer Animation III – Character development and animation
3D Computer Animation IV – Rendering and effects
Mobile Application Development – Programming apps for Android
platform
Virtual Reality
Designed,
developed, and taught a unique course in CAVE Virtual Reality programming using
the CAVE at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Offered to
computer science students at both the University of Illinois and Parkland
College, this course required students to design and develop their own CAVE
applications. At conclusion, these applications were then showcased to the public
at the annual University of Illinois Engineering Open House. Many of these
student applications continue to be demonstrated today for various tours and
visits.
Digital Media
Designed and developed degree program and curriculum in motion
graphics, 2D/3D computer animation, gaming, web development, and graphics
programming. Program offers unique blend of art, design, film, and computer
science courses with various specialized tracks. Graduating students have been
employed at prestigious national and local companies and institutions such as
Industrial Light & Magic (feature film/effects), Rhythm & Hues (feature
film), 2K Sports (3D gaming), the University of Alabama (scientific
visualization), Frasca (local 3D flight simulation)
and Volition Inc. (local 3D gaming). Examples of student 3D animation work demo reel1 and demo reel2.
SKILLS
Software Development
C/C++, Java, Python
OpenGL, GLSL
Git, Visual C++/MFC, Xt/Motif
TCP/IP Sockets, RPC, Perl
Mobile App Development
Android API, Eclipse, Android Studio
Computer Animation and Post-Production
Autodesk Maya, Mudbox, Pixar RenderMan, 3D Studio
Adobe AfterEffects,
Adobe Photoshop
Autodesk Maya Instructor Certification
Learning Maya Introduction
Learning Maya Transition
Character Animation in Maya