Experience

Ben Houston, Founder and CTO of Exocortex, has contributed to the following:

Publications

Houston, B., Nielsen, M, Batty C, Nilsson, O & K Museth. (2006) "Hierarchical RLE Level Set: A Compact and Versatile Deformable Surface Representation."  ACM Transactions on Graphics 25(1), January 2006.

Batty, C., & B. Houston. (2005) "Visual Simulation of Wispy Smoke." SIGGRAPH 2005.

Houston, B., Nielsen, M., Batty C., Nilsson, O. & K. Museth. (2005) "Gigantic Deformable Surfaces." SIGGRAPH 2005.

Houston, B. & H. Masum. (2004) "Explorations in 4-peg Tower of Hanoi." School of Computer Science Technical Report TR-04-10. Carleton University, Ottawa.

Houston, B., Wiebe, M. & C. Batty. (2004) "RLE Sparse Level Sets." SIGGRAPH 2004.

Wiebe, M. & B. Houston. (2004) "The Tar Monster: Creating a Character with Fluid Simulation." SIGGRAPH 2004.

Houston, B., Bond, C., & M. Wiebe. (2003) "A Unified Approach to Modeling Complex Occlusions in Fluid Simulations." SIGGRAPH 2003.

Batty, C., M. Wiebe and B. Houston. (2003) "High Performance Production-Quality Fluid Simulation via NVIDIA’s QuadroFX." NVIDIA-Frantic Films Whitepaper.

Houston, B. & Z. Jacobson. (2002) A Simple 3D Visual Text Retrieval Interface. Meeting Proceedings TRO-MP-050: "Multimedia Visualization of Massive Military Datasets." NATO.

Patents

Houston, B. & S. Christensen.  (2007)  "Method of modeling fluid flow."  United States Patent Pending.

Houston, B. & M. Wiebe.  (2007)  "Method for converting explicitly represented geometric surfaces into accurate level sets."  United States Patent #7234057 B2.

Houston, B. & M. Wiebe.  (2006)  "Method for modeling complex occlusions in fluid simulations."  United States Patent 7098907 B2.