Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Lujin Wang, Joachim Giesen, Kevin T. McDonnell, Peter Zolliker and Klaus Mueller. "Color Design for Illustrative Visualization." To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualizations and Computer Graphics (Special Issue on Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2008), 2008.
  2. Kevin T. McDonnell and Klaus Mueller. "Illustrative Parallel Coordinates." Computer Graphics Forum (Special Issue on Proceedings of the Joint Eurographics/IEEE-TCVG Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis 2008), 27(3):1031-1038, 2008.
  3. Jeffrey J. Feuer and Kevin T. McDonnell. "On the eventual periodicity of xn+1 = max{1/xn,An/xn-1} with a period-five parameter." Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 56(4):883-890, 2008.
  4. Lori Zaikowski, Kevin T. McDonnell, Robert F. Rockwell and Fred Rispoli. "Temporal and spatial variations in water quality on New York South Shore Estuary tributaries: Carmans, Patchogue, and Swan Rivers." Estuaries and Coasts, 31:85-100, 2008.
  5. Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin. "PB-FFD: A Point-based Technique for Free-Form Deformation." Journal of Graphics Tools, 12(3):25-41, 2007.
  6. Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin. "A Novel Framework for Physically Based Sculpting and Animation of Free-form Solids." The Visual Computer, 23(4):285-296, 2007.
  7. Kevin T. McDonnell, Yu-Sung Chang and Hong Qin. "DigitalSculpture: A Subdivision-based Approach to Interactive Implicit Surface Modeling." Graphical Models, 67(4):347-369, 2005.
  8. Kevin T. McDonnell, Yu-Sung Chang and Hong Qin. "Interpolatory, Solid Subdivision of Unstructured Hexahedral Meshes." The Visual Computer, 20(6):418-436, 2004.
  9. Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin. "Dynamic Sculpting and Animation of Free-form Subdivision Solids." The Visual Computer, 18(2):81-96, 2002. (Invited paper)

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

  1. Kevin T. McDonnell, Neophytos Neophytou, Klaus Mueller and Hong Qin. "Subdivision Volume Splatting." In Proceedings of the Joint Eurographics/IEEE-TCVG Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis 2007), pages 139-146, May 2007.
  2. Neophytos Neophytou, Klaus Mueller, Kevin T. McDonnell, Wei Hong, Xin Guan, Hong Qin and Arie Kaufman. "GPU-Accelerated Volume Splatting With Elliptical RBFs." In Proceedings of the Joint Eurographics/IEEE-TCVG Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis 2006), pages 13-20, May 2006.
  3. Hui Xie, Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin. "Surface Reconstruction of Noisy and Defective Data-Sets." In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004, pages 259-266, October 2004.
  4. Yu-Sung Chang, Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin. "An Interpolatory Subdivision for Volumetric Models over Simplicial Complexes." In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, pages 143-152, May 2003. Color plate.
  5. Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin. "Virtual Clay: Haptics-based Deformable Solids of Arbitrary Topology." In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pages 1-20, November 2002. (Invited paper)
  6. Yu-Sung Chang, Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin. "A New Solid Subdivision Scheme Based on Box Splines." In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, pages 226-233, 2002.
  7. Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin. "FEM-based Subdivision Solids for Dynamic and Haptic Interaction." In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, pages 312-313, June 2001.
  8. Kevin T. McDonnell, Hong Qin and Robert A. Wlodarczyk. "Virtual Clay: A Real-time Sculpting System with Haptic Toolkits." In Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, pages 179-190, March 2001.
  9. Ingmar Bitter, Mie Sato, Michael Bender, Kevin T. McDonnell, Arie Kaufman, and Ming Wan. "CEASAR: A Smooth, Accurate and Robust Centerline Extraction Algorithm." In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2000, pages 45-52, October 2000.
  10. Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin. "Dynamic Sculpting and Animation of Free-form Subdivision Solids." In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Animation 2000, pages 126-133, May 2000. Selected as the best paper in the conference.
  11. Xiaoqun Du, Kevin T. McDonnell, Evangelos Nanos, Y. S. Ramakrishnan, and Scott A. Smolka. "Software Design, Specification, and Verification: Lessons Learned from the RETHER Case Study." In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, Sydney, Australia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pages 185-198, December 1997.

Technical Reports & Other Documents

  1. Neophytos Neophytou, Kevin T. McDonnell, and Klaus Mueller. "On the simplification of radial basis function fields for volume rendering: some practical insights." Stony Brook University, Department of Computer Science Technical Report, June 2006.
  2. Kevin T. McDonnell. "DYNASOAR: DYNAmic Solid Objects of ARbitrary topology." Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, August 2003.
  3. Kevin T. McDonnell. "DYNASOAR: DYNAmic Solid Objects of ARbitrary topology." Thesis Proposal, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, December 2002.
  4. Kevin T. McDonnell, Hong Qin and Robert A. Wlodarczyk. "Virtual Clay: A Real-time, Haptics-based Sculpting System." In Proceedings of Graduate Research Conference 2001, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, April 2001. Won best paper/presentation award.
  5. Kevin T. McDonnell. "Dynamic Subdivision-based Solid Modeling." Research Proficiency Examination, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, December 2000.
  6. Kevin T. McDonnell. "OSP: An Environment for Operating System Projects." Honors College Senior Thesis, Stony Brook University, May 1998.