Paul Rademacher
Paul Rademacher
p a u l . r a d e m a c h e r  [at]  g m a i l . c o m

I joined Google in 2005. I started the Google Earth Browser Plugin, to embed the full power of Google Earth into any webpage. I'm currently Engineering Manager for the Google Maps frontend.
HousingMaps, a combination of Craigslist and Google Maps, for viewing rental and for-sale listings across the country. This was the first-ever Google Maps mashup.
Software Engineer at Dreamworks Animation, 2001-2005. I was Technical Lead of Animation Tools.
I have my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here's my dissertation, trying to figure out why photographs look like photographs and why computer-generated images don't.
GLUI, my GLUT-based user interface library
View-Dependent Geometry -
In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99.
Also in SIGGRAPH 99 Electronic Theatre.
"Desert Dreams" - Shown at SIGGRAPH 99 Computer Animation Festival.
Multiple-Center-of-Projection Images - In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98.
Range Image Registration by Consistency of Empty Space
The Reanimatron (grad school fun)
Ray Tracing: Graphics for the Masses. Summer 1997 issue of ACM Crossroads.


p a u l . r a d e m a c h e r  [at]  g m a i l . c o m