People / Paul Asente
Paul Asente
Principal Scientist, Imagination Lab
I am a researcher at Adobe, working on 2D vector graphics, stereoscopic 3D, stylization, and non-photorealistic rendering (NPR). I received my B.S. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1979 and my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1987, where my advisor was Brian Reid. My thesis was in the area of 2D vector graphics editing, but my most noteworthy accomplishment was writing the first version of the software that eventually became the X Window System. After Stanford I worked for three years at Digital Equipment Corporation, where I became the chief architect for the Xt Toolkit for the X Window System.
I joined Adobe in 1990 and worked on the Display PostScript System and Unix applications for 5 years. I then joined the Adobe Illustrator team for versions 7, 8, and 9, acting as engineering lead for version 9. In 2001 I joined the graphics group in Adobe's Advanced Technology Labs, under the leadership of Martin Newell. I am now a member of the Procedural Imaging Group, led by Radomír Měch, which is part of the Imagination Lab, led by Gavin Miller. Among the features I have contributed to Illustrator are brushes (version 8), graphic styles (9), Scribble (CS), Live Paint (CS2), variable-width strokes (CS5), and gradient strokes (CS6). I also contributed Scribble and Puppet to After Effects (versions 6 and CS3). In 2011 and 2012 I was co-chair of the annual symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR).
When not working, I enjoy riding roller coasters (more than 500 different coasters in 12 countries), collecting art toys, challenge square dancing, and studying Japanese.
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NPAR 2012 – Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
Asente, P., Grimm, C. (Jun 04, 2012)
Consistent stylization and painterly rendering of stereoscopic 3D images
Northam, L., Asente, P., Kaplan, C. 2012 (Jun 04, 2012)
NPAR 2012 – Proceedings of the ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
Towards ground truth in geometric textures
AlMeraj, Z., Kaplan, C., Asente, P., and Lank, E. 2011 (Aug 05, 2011)
NPAR 2011 – Proceedings of the ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
NPAR 2011 – Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
Collomosse, J., Asente, P., Spencer, S (Aug 05, 2011)
Folding avoidance in skeletal strokes
Asente, P. 2010 (Jun 07, 2010)
SBIM 2010 - Eurographics Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling
Dynamic planar map illustration
Asente, P., Schuster, M. and Pettit, T. 2007 (Aug 13, 2007)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 26(3), 30:1-30: 10
X Window System Toolkit - The Complete Programmer's Guide and Specification 2nd Edition
Asente, P., Converse, D., Swick, R. (Jun 01, 1998)
Digital Press, 1998
X toolkits: the lessons learned
Rosenberg, J., Asente, P., Linton, M., Palay, A. 1990 (Oct 03, 1990)
UIST 1990 – Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
X Window System Toolkit - The Complete Programmer's Guide and Specification
Asente, P., Swick, R., McCormack, J. (Sep 01, 1990)
Digital Press, 1990
An overview of the X toolkit
McCormack, J., Asente, P. 1988 (Oct 17, 1988)
UIST 1988 – Proceedings of the 1st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
