Robert Bridson, University of British Columbia
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Vancouver, British Columbia
rbridson@cs.ubc.ca
Office:
(604) 822-1993
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Bio/Research
I cofounded Exotic Matter, a graphics company which made physical simulation software for the film industry. Our Naiad software has featured in some of the most impressive liquid effects to date, including films such as Avatar, Narnia: Voyage of the Dawntreader, X-Men First Class, Harry Potter an...
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Bio/Research
I cofounded Exotic Matter, a graphics company which made physical simulation software for the film industry. Our Naiad software has featured in some of the most impressive liquid effects to date, including films such as Avatar, Narnia: Voyage of the Dawntreader, X-Men First Class, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and many others. It is currently used at studios around the world.
My official screen credits are for The Adventures of Tintin, The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Inkheart, but I have helped write in-house software at studios used in many other films. Most recently I spent ten months as part of R&D at Weta Digital in New Zealand following earlier visits.
Before that I co-wrote the Squirt fluid simulator for Double Negative Visual Effects, seen in many films for smoke, water, fire, clouds, ink-in-water, etc. including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2012, The Boat that Rocked/Pirate Radio, Inkheart, Quantum of Solace, The Dark Knight, and Hell Boy II: The Golden Army. Even further back I helped out with cloth simulation code used for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones at Industrial Light and Magic, as one of the original contributors to the PhysBAM project, under my Ph.D. supervisor Ron Fedkiw.
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My official screen credits are for The Adventures of Tintin, The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Inkheart, but I have helped write in-house software at studios used in many other films. Most recently I spent ten months as part of R&D at Weta Digital in New Zealand following earlier visits.
Before that I co-wrote the Squirt fluid simulator for Double Negative Visual Effects, seen in many films for smoke, water, fire, clouds, ink-in-water, etc. including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2012, The Boat that Rocked/Pirate Radio, Inkheart, Quantum of Solace, The Dark Knight, and Hell Boy II: The Golden Army. Even further back I helped out with cloth simulation code used for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones at Industrial Light and Magic, as one of the original contributors to the PhysBAM project, under my Ph.D. supervisor Ron Fedkiw.
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