Welcome

Kevin

I am a Ph.D. student in computer graphics at the University of Washington under Zoran Popović. I have recently been focusing on automatic methods to animate and control characters and techniques to solve large-scale or highly nonlinear optimizations and simulations.

Recent Publications

adversarial control

Character Animation in Two-Player Adversarial Games

Kevin Wampler, Erik Andersen, Evan Herbst, Yongjoon Lee and Zoran Popović

ACM Transactions on Graphics 2010, Volume 29

[website] [pdf] [video]

motion fields

Motion Fields for Interactive Character Animation

Yongjoon Lee, Kevin Wampler, Gilbert Bernstein, Jovan Popović and Zoran Popović

ACM Transactions on Graphics 29(5) (SIGGRAPH Asia 2010)

[website] [pdf] [video]

animal morphology

Optimal Gait and Form for Animal Locomotion

Kevin Wampler and Zoran Popović

ACM Transactions on Graphics 23(3) (SIGGRAPH 2009)

[website] [pdf] [video]

Older Publications

Dynamic, Expressive Speech Animation From a Single Mesh

Kevin Wampler, Daichi Sasaki, Li Zhang and Zoran Popović

SCA '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation

Non-Euclidean Spring Embedders

S.G. Kobourov and K. Wampler

IEEE InfoVis 2004

Buddy tracking -- efficient proximity detection among mobile friends

Efrat, Myllymaki, Palaniappan and Wampler

IEEE Infocom, 2004

Exploring the Computing Literature Using Temporal Graph Visualization

Erten, Harding, Kobourov, Wampler and Yee

Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, 2004 (VDA04)

Graphael: A System for Generalized Force-Directed Layouts

D. Forrester, S.G. Kobourov, A. Navabi, K. Wampler and G. Yee

International Symposium on Graph Drawing, 2004

A System for Graph-Based Visualization of the Evolution of Software

Collberg, Kobourov, Nagra, Pitts and Wampler

ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, 2003