John Rugis

IESE, Institute of Earth Science and Engineering,
The University of Auckland
j.rugis@auckland.ac.nz

Primary Research Interests:

3D visualization of scientific data.
Ray-tracing and volumetric rendering.
Geometry of 3D discrete point sets.
Digital surface curvature.

Secondary Research Interests:

Morphology of New Zealand endemic ferns.

Rugis, J. and P. Leary: Towards Crustal Reservoir Flow Structure Modelling.
In Proc. 33rd New Zealand Geothermal Workshop,
November 2011, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
(699KB pdf)

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Rugis, J.: A Fern Propagation Report.
Auckland Botanical Society Journal, Vol 65(1), pp. 78-82, June 2010.
(759KB pdf)

Rugis, J.: Digital Surface Curvature: Identifying and Visualizing Surface Detail.
VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2008
ISBN 978-3639099164.

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Rugis, J.: Digital Surface Curvature.
PhD Thesis. University of Auckland, 2008.
Auckland, New Zealand.
(20MB pdf)

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Rugis, J.: Identifying and visualizing surface detail on Michelangelo's David.
In Proc. SIGGRAPH 2007,
Conference DVD-ROM, 2007. San Diego, USA.
(660KB pdf)

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Rugis, J. and R. Klette: Surface curvature extraction for 3D image analysis or surface rendering.
Invited Talk, In Proc. Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding,
2007. Hiroshima, Japan.
(348KB pdf)

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Presentation slides. (6.6MB pdf)

Rugis, J.: An exploration of a bijective mapping in the integers.
Preprint, submitted, 2007.
(110KB pdf)

Rugis, J.: Extracting surface curvature from noisy scan data.
In Proc. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand,
pages 185-190, 2006. Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.
(660KB pdf)

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Rugis, J. and R. Klette: A scale invariant surface curvature estimator.
In Proc. Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology ,
pages 138-147, 2006. Hsinchu, Taiwan.
(1.1MB pdf)

Rugis, J.: Projecting surface curvature maps.
In Proc. SIGGRAPH 2006,
Conference DVD-ROM, 2006. Boston, USA.
(602KB pdf)

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Rugis, J. and R. Klette: Surface registration markers from range scan data.
In Proc. International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis,
pages 430-444, 2006. Berlin, Germany.
(2.7MB pdf)

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Rugis, J.: Surface curvature maps and Michelangelo’s David.
In Proc. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand,
pages 218–222, 2005. Dunedin, New Zealand.
(1.3MB pdf)

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Visualizing 3D Geophysical Data.
CITR, University of Auckland, October 27, 2011.
(2.3MB pdf)

A Native Fern Survey Report.
Wairua Lodge, Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsula, February 2, 2009.
(868KB pdf)

Native Fern Propagation.
Invited Talk, NZ Forest and Bird Society, August 11, 2008.
(10.8MB pdf)

Projecting surface curvature maps.
CITR, University of Auckland, May 23, 2006.
(2.2MB pdf)

Surface curvature maps and Michelangelo’s David.
CITR, University of Auckland, October 25, 2005.
(1.4MB pdf)

Curvature maps and the Digital Michelangelo Project.
CITR, University of Auckland, October 15, 2005.
(3.0MB pdf)

Surface curvature from laser triangulation data.
ECE, Manukau Institute of Technology, July 9, 2005.
(3.2MB pdf)

Non-mean curvature estimators.
CITR, University of Auckland, June 10, 2005.
(1.3MB pdf)

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