Marc Levoy papers, 2002-2015
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Collection includes Digital Michaelangelo and Forma Urbis Romae, websites, 3-d models, & photographs.
Description
Type of resource | mixed material |
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Extent | 100 megabyte(s) |
Place | California |
Publication date | 2002 - 2015 |
Issuance | monographic |
Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
Associated with | Levoy, Marc. |
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Subjects
Subject | Computer graphics |
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Bibliographic information
Note | Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc. |
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Biographical/Historical | Marc Levoy is the VMware Founders Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Emeritus. He received a Bachelor's and Master's in Architecture from Cornell University in 1976 and 1978, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. In the 1970's Levoy worked on computer animation, developing a cartoon animation system that was used by Hanna-Barbera Productions to make The Flintstones, Scooby Doo, and other shows. In the 1980's Levoy worked on volume rendering, a technique for displaying three-dimensional functions such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR) data. In the 1990's he worked on 3D laser scanning, culminating in the Digital Michelangelo Project, in which he and his students spent a year in Italy digitizing the statues of Michelangelo. In the 2000's he worked on computational photography and microscopy, including light field imaging as commercialized by Lytro and other companies. At Stanford he taught computer graphics and the science of art, and digital photography. Outside of academia, Levoy co-designed the Google book scanner, launched Google's Street View project, and currently leads a team in Google Research that has worked on Project Glass and the Nexus 6 HDR+ mode. Awards: Charles Goodwin Sands Medal for best undergraduate thesis (1976), National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (1991), ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award (1996), ACM Fellow (2007). In 2014, Levoy retired from Stanford to lead a team at Google. His team is in Google Research, and works broadly on cameras and photography. One of their projects was computational photography for Glass. More recent projects include HDR+ mode on the Nexus 6 and a more flexible application programming interface (API) and hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for the cameras on Android devices. |
Location | electronic resource |
Location | Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
Aside from the ephemeral downloading and copying associated with browsing the web and personal research, the images of individual fragments may not be copied, downloaded and stored, forwarded, reproduced or published in any form, including electronic forms such as e-mail or the web, without express written permission from the Dott.ssa in Rome (francesca.decaprariis@comune.roma.it).
Aside from the ephemeral downloading and copying associated with browsing the web and personal research, the models of individual fragments may not be copied, downloaded and stored, forwarded, reproduced or published in any form, including electronic forms such as e-mail or the web, without express written permission from the Dott.ssa in Rome (francesca.decaprariis@comune.roma.it).
The La pianta marmorea di Roma antica: Forma urbis Romae plates may not be copied, downloaded and stored, forwarded, reproduced or published in any form, including electronic forms such as e-mail or the web, without express written permission from the Dott.ssa in Rome (francesca.decaprariis@comune.roma.it).
Text and images on the web pages of the Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project other than those described in the two preceding paragraphs may be copied, but only for research and personal use. They may also be used for teaching and in public lectures as long as credit is given to the Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project. However, publishing these copies in any printed or electronic form, placing them on web pages outside of our project, or creating a mirror site for them requires the express written permission of the Stanford University Libraries (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
The photographic images of individual fragments of the Severan Marble Plan of Rome (Forma Urbis Romae, Pianta Marmorea) that appear on the web pages of the Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project are the property of Stanford University and the Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma.
The computer renderings of individual fragments of the Severan Marble Plan of Rome (Forma Urbis Romae, Pianta Marmorea) that appear on the web pages of the Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project are the property of Stanford University and the Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma.
Photographs from the publication La pianta marmorea di Roma antica: Forma urbis Romae (Rome: Comune di Roma, 1960) that appear on the web pages of the Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project are the property of the Comune di Roma.
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- Marc Levoy papers (SC1258). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.