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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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.
Beneš, B., Šťava, O., Měch, R., and Miller, G. (Apr 11, 2011)
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 30(2), 2011
Talton, J., Lou, Y., Lesser, S., Duke, J, Mech, R., and Koltun, V. (Apr 01, 2011)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 30, Issue 2, April
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
Šťava, O., Beneš, B., Měch, R., Aliaga, D.G., and Krištof, P. (May 03, 2010)
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 29(2), 2010
Huang, Q.-X., Měch, R., and Carr, N (Jul 13, 2009)
Computer Graphics Forum, Pacific Graphics 2009 Conference Proceedings, 29 (7)
Yeh, Y.-T. and Měch, R (Mar 23, 2009)
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 28(2), 2009
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
Ijiri, T., Měch, R., Igarashi, T., and Miller, G. (Apr 14, 2008)
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 27(2), 2008
Carr, N., Měch, R., and Miller, G. (Feb 07, 2008)
In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Graphics Hardware, 33-40
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
Měch, R. (Feb 16, 2003)
Journal of Graphics Tools, 8(4), 1–19, 2003
Měch, R. (Feb 01, 2001)
Journal of Graphics Tools, 6(3), 1–16, 2001
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
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
Gautier, H., Měch, R., Prusinkiewicz, P., and Varlet-Grancher, C. (Jan 28, 2000)
Annals of Botany, 85, 359-370(12), 2000
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
Mech, R. 1997 (Nov 10, 1997)
PhD Thesis, The University of Calgary
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
Měch, R. and Prusinkiewicz, P. (Aug 05, 1996)
In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '96, 397–410, 1996
Prusinkiewicz, P., James, M., and Měch, R. (Feb 15, 1994)
In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '94, 351–358, 1994
Mech, R. 1993 (Jun 15, 1993)
Masters Thesis, The Charles University