J.P. Lewis

John ("JP") has worked at think tanks including Interval Research (Palo Alto) and NEC Research (Princeton), and has done work and consulting in the special effects industry at ESC, ILM and other effects facilities. Most recently was a Director of Software R&D at Dream Quest Images. He has software development credits on Forest Gump, Godzilla, and several other movies not worth mentioning, several academic publications and patents, and his research has been adopted in several commercial graphics packages.

Lewis is now a scientist at USC's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), where he is researching new facial animation and tracking techniques in collaboration with Ulrich Neumann (IMSC director) and students in the Computer Graphics and Immersive Technology lab. He has been programming with Linux since 1996.

J. P. Lewis's talk is about "Graphics in Linux"

Linux has been widely adopted movie special effects production. J.P. Lewis will give some anecdotes of linux in movie special effects R&D, describe the unusual FX production culture, and show some recent state-of-the-art visual effects.