People / Radomír Měch
Radomír Měch
Senior Research Manager, Advanced Technology Labs
I am a researcher and manager at Adobe Systems, Inc. I manage a group in Advanced Technology Labs that focuses on easy 3D modeling, procedural modeling, rendering and graphics design. My areas of research are procedural modeling, with a particular focus on interaction with procedural models, rendering, and 3D printing.
I grew up in Czech Republic. I completed my Master's degree at Charles University in Prague and Ph.D. degree at the University of Calgary in Canada. The topic of my Ph.D. dissertation was Modeling and simulation of plant-environment interactions using L-systems and their extensions. My advisor was Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.
After a brief post-doc at the University of Calgary I joined SGI, where I worked mainly on OpenGL Performer, a real-time, multi-processing, high performance graphics library for visual simulation and automotive design. I developed original algorithms for rendering patchy fog, image based real-time shadows, image based rendering using object proxies, programmable culling, and evaluating subdivision curves and surfaces on GPUs.
Before coming to Adobe in early 2006, I spent two years working in the NVIDIA's Digital film group, leading the project that brought interactivity to the film production pipeline.
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Learning Design Patterns with Bayesian Grammar Induction
Talton, J. O., Yang, L., Kumar, R., Lim, M., Goodman, N. D., and Měch, R. (Oct 07, 2012)
UIST'12
Stress Relief: Improving Structural Strength of 3D Printable Objects
Stava, O., Vanek, J., Benes, B., Carr, N., and Měch, R. (Aug 07, 2012)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2012)
Plastic Trees: Interactive Self-Adapting Botanical Tree Models
Pirk, S., Stava, O., Kratt, J., Abdul Massih Said, M., Neubert, B., Měch, R., Benes, B., and Deussen, O. (Aug 07, 2012)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2012)
A lightweight, procedural, vector watercolor painting engine
DiVerdi, S., Krishnaswamy, A., Měch, R., and Ito, D. (Apr 03, 2012)
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D '12), 2012 – won best paper award.
Guided Procedural Modeling
Beneš, B., Šťava, O., Měch, R., and Miller, G. (Apr 11, 2011)
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 30(2), 2011
Metropolis Procedural Modeling
Talton, J., Lou, Y., Lesser, S., Duke, J, Mech, R., and Koltun, V. (Apr 01, 2011)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 30(2), April 2011
Inverse Procedural Modeling by Automatic Generation of L-systems
Šťava, O., Beneš, B., Měch, R., Aliaga, D.G., and Krištof, P. (May 03, 2010)
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 29(2), 2010
Optimizing Structure Preserving Embedded Deformation for Resizing Images and Vector Art
Huang, Q.-X., Měch, R., and Carr, N (Jul 13, 2009)
Computer Graphics Forum, Pacific Graphics 2009 Conference Proceedings, 29 (7)
Detecting Symmetries and Curvilinear Arrangements in Vector Art
Yeh, Y.-T. and Měch, R (Mar 23, 2009)
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 28(2), 2009
Self-organizing Tree Models for Image Synthesis
Palubicki, W., Horel, K., Longay, S., Runions, A., Lane, B., Měch, R., and Prusinkiewicz, P. (Feb 09, 2009)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 28(3), 2009
An Example-based Procedural System for Element Arrangement
Ijiri, T., Měch, R., Igarashi, T., and Miller, G. (Apr 14, 2008)
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 27(2), 2008
Coherent Layer Peeling for Transparent High-depth-Complexity Scenes
Carr, N., Měch, R., and Miller, G. (Feb 07, 2008)
In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Graphics Hardware, 33-40
Manipulating Virtual Plants
Prusinkiewicz, P., Lane, B., and Měch, R. (May 22, 2007)
In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models, 24-1 – 24-4, 2007
Real-time image-based rendering using surface proxies and texture packing
Měch, R. (Feb 16, 2003)
Journal of Graphics Tools, 8(4), 1–19, 2003
Hardware-accelerated real-time rendering of gaseous phenomena
Měch, R. (Feb 01, 2001)
Journal of Graphics Tools, 6(3), 1–16, 2001
L-studio/cpfg: a software system for modeling plants
Prusinkiewicz, P., Karwowski, R., Měch, R., and Hanan, J. (Feb 15, 2000)
In AGTIVE '99: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance, 457–464, 2000
An L-System-based plant modeling language
Prusinkiewicz, P., Hanan, J., and Měch, R. (Feb 01, 2000)
In AGTIVE '99: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance, 395–410, 2000
3D architectural modelling of aerial photomorphogenesis in white clover (Trifolium repens L.) using L-systems
Gautier, H., Měch, R., Prusinkiewicz, P., and Varlet-Grancher, C. (Jan 28, 2000)
Annals of Botany, 85, 359-370(12), 2000
Realistic modeling and rendering of plant ecosystems
Deussen, O., Hanrahan, P., Lintermann, B., Měch, R., Pharr, M., and Prusinkiewicz, P. 1998 (Aug 03, 1998)
In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '98, 275–286, 1998
Modeling and simulation of the interaction of plants with the environment using L-systems and their extensions
Mech, R. 1997 (Nov 10, 1997)
PhD Thesis, The University of Calgary
Visual models of plant development
Prusinkiewicz, P., Hammel, M., Hanan, J., and Měch, R. (Jan 03, 1997)
Handbook of formal languages, vol. 3: beyond words, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc, 535–597, 1997
Visual models of plants interacting with their environment
Měch, R. and Prusinkiewicz, P. (Aug 05, 1996)
In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '96, 397–410, 1996
Synthetic topiary
Prusinkiewicz, P., James, M., and Měch, R. (Feb 15, 1994)
In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '94, 351–358, 1994
Colors in rendering algorithms: quality enhancing methods in ray-tracing
Mech, R. 1993 (Jun 15, 1993)
Masters Thesis, The Charles University
