We are proud to announce that the paper: K. Leimer, M.Birsak, F. Rist, P. Musialski: Sit & Relax: Interactive Design of Body-Supporting Surfaces. Computer Graphics Forum, 37(7), October 2018. was awarded with the “Best Paper Honorable Mention” at the Pacific

Helmut Pottmann, who founded the center and helped it grow and prosper during past 4 years, recently moved to KAUST. Since October 1st, 2018, Michael Wimmer, who has acted as vice director for GCD so far, has taken up the

We are proud to announce that Josef Füssl won a FWF START grant with the submitted project “Making wood predictable through computational methods“. Congratulation! Project leader: Josef Füssl Duration: 6 years Agency: FWF START-Programm   Abstract: Wood as structural bearing

The members of the research group Applied Geometry proudly proclaim that our head Helmut Pottmann was honored with three outstanding awards this year. Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2018) Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award (2018) Pierre

“Generating surfaces from curvature — a playful approach” Agency: Austrian Science Fund, FWF [TCS 52] Duration: 08/2018 – 01/2020 Project leader: Christian Müller

“Geometric shape generation” Joint Project between Austria (FWF) and Japan (JSPS) Project leader (Austria): Udo Hertrich-Jeromin People: Maria Lara Miro, Denis Polly, Florian Rist Project leader (Japan): Miyuki Koiso Start: 1 Apr 2018 – 31 Mar 2020 (approved 5 Mar

Opera in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart With Hany Abdelzaher, Sofija Almazova, Muratkan Atam, Ghazal Kazemi, Yaonjae Kim, Namil Kim, Erik Rousi, Aleksandra Szmyd, Eyrun Unnarsdottir, Xin Wang, and others. As well as choir and symphony orchestra of MUK.

“Singularity Closeness of Stewart-Gough Platforms” Agency: Austrian Science Fund, FWF (P30855) Funding: 192.774,76 EUR Start: Summer 2018, duration: 4 years Project leader: Georg Nawratil   General information: This project is devoted to the evaluation of singularity closeness of Stewart-Gough (SG)

“Material-minimizing forms and structures” M. Kilian, D. Pellis, J. Wallner and H. Pottmann ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 36(6), 2017. Information

Martin Ilcik and Christian Freude won the category “Vienna State Opera challenge” of the  VC CultTech Hackathon – Austria’s first hackathon at the intersection of art and IT – with their Project “Indoor navigation system for the Vienna State Opera”.

“Rendering Large Point Clouds in Web Browsers”(Diploma Thesis) Markus Schütz, 2nd place at AGEO AWARD 2017 (Diploma Thesis Award of the Austrian Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information) Homepage  

Research project “VR On-Site” simulates operational scenarios with Johanniter. Information

Martin Ilčík won INiTS Award 2016 (11/2016) Homepage

“Extending Separable Subsurface Scattering to Arbitrary Materials“ (Diploma Thesis) Christian Freude won the OCG Advancement Award 2016. (10/2016) Homepage