Peter G Lindstrom Email: lindstrom2@llnl.gov Phone: 925-423-5925 Fax: 925-422-6287 Mailing address: Peter G Lindstrom Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Box 808, L-560 Livermore, CA 94551-0808

Peter Lindstrom is a computer scientist in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC). His research interests include mesh simplification and compression, multi-resolution methods, geometric modeling, and large-data visualization.

Peter earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000 and holds B.S. degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics from Elon University in North Carolina. He joined LLNL in 2000 and is currently a member of CASC's Data Analysis group and ASC's Visualization team. He is also the principal investigator for the LOCAL project.

Selected Publications

Refereed Journals

Ibarria, L., P. Lindstrom, and J. Rossignac, "Spectral Interpolation on 3 × 3 Stencils for Prediction and Compression," Journal of Computers, 2(8), to appear.  [PDF]

Yoon, S.-E., and P. Lindstrom, "Random-Accessible Compressed Triangle Meshes," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Proceedings of Visualization 2007, 13(6), November-December 2007, to appear. [PDF]

Vo, H., S. Callahan, P. Lindstrom, V. Pascucci, and C. Silva, "Streaming Simplification of Tetrahedral Meshes," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(1), pp. 145-155, January-February 2007. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P., and M. Isenburg, "Fast and Efficient Compression of Floating-Point Data," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Proceedings of Visualization 2006, 12(5), pp. 1245-1250, September-October 2006. [PDF]

Yoon, S.-E., and P. Lindstrom, "Mesh Layouts for Block-Based Caches," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Proceedings of Visualization 2006, 12(5), pp. 1213-1220, September-October 2006. [PDF]

Yoon, S.-E., P. Lindstrom, V. Pascucci, and D. Manocha, "Cache-Oblivious Mesh Layouts," ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005, 24(3), pp. 886-893, July 2005. [PDF]

Isenburg, M., P. Lindstrom, and J. Snoeyink, "Lossless Compression of Predicted Floating-Point Geometry," Computer-Aided Design, 37(8), pp. 869-877, July 2005. [PDF]

Ibarria, L., P. Lindstrom, J. Rossignac, and A. Szymczak, "Out-of-Core Compression and Decompression of Large n-Dimensional Scalar Fields," Computer Graphics Forum, Proceedings of Eurographics 2003, 22(3), pp. 343-348, September 2003. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P. and V. Pascucci, "Terrain Simplification Simplified: A General Framework for View-Dependent Out-of-Core Visualization," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 8(3), pp. 239-254, July-September 2002. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P. and G. Turk, "Image-Driven Simplification," ACM Transactions on Graphics, 19(3), pp. 204-241, July 2000. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P. and G. Turk, "Evaluation of Memoryless Simplification," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 5(2), pp. 98-115, April-June 1999. [PDF]

Refereed Conferences

Ibarria, L., P. Lindstrom, and J. Rossignac, "Spectral Predictors," IEEE Data Compression Conference, March 2007, pp. 163-172. [PDF]

Isenburg, M., P. Lindstrom, S. Gumhold, and R. Shewchuk, "Streaming Compression of Tetrahedral Volume Meshes," Graphics Interface 2006, June 2006, pp. 115-121. [PDF]

Isenburg, M. and P. Lindstrom, "Streaming Meshes," IEEE Visualization 2005, October 2005, pp. 231-238. [PDF]

Isenburg, M., P. Lindstrom, and J. Snoeyink, "Streaming Compression of Triangle Meshes," Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2005, July 2005, pp. 111-118. [PDF]

Senecal, J. G., P. Lindstrom, M. A. Duchaineau, and K. I. Joy, "An Improved N-Bit to N-Bit Reversible Haar-Like Transform," Pacific Graphics 2004, October 2004, pp. 371-380. [PDF]

Pesco, S., P. Lindstrom, V. Pascucci, and C. T. Silva, "Implicit Occluders," IEEE/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2004, October 2004, pp. 47-54. [PDF]

Isenburg, M., P. Lindstrom, and J. Snoeyink, "Lossless Compression of Floating-Point Geometry," CAD 2004, May 2004. [PDF]

Isenburg, M., P. Lindstrom, S. Gumhold, and J. Snoeyink, "Large Mesh Simplification using Processing Sequences," IEEE Visualization 2003, October 2003, pp. 465-472. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P., "Out-of-Core Construction and Visualization of Multiresolution Surfaces," ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, April 2003, pp. 93-102. [PDF]

Gregorski, B., M. Duchaineau, P. Lindstrom, V. Pascucci, and K. I. Joy, "Interactive View-Dependent Rendering of Large Isosurfaces," IEEE Visualization 2002, pp. 475-482, October 2002. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P. and C. T. Silva, "A Memory Insensitive Technique for Large Model Simplification," IEEE Visualization 2001, pp. 121-126, October 2001. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P. and V. Pascucci, "Visualization of Large Terrains Made Easy," IEEE Visualization 2001, pp. 363-370, October 2001. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P., "Out-of-Core Simplification of Large Polygonal Models," ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, pp. 259-262, July 2000. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P. and G. Turk, "Fast and Memory Efficient Polygonal Simplification," IEEE Visualization '98, pp. 279-286, October 1998. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P., D. Koller, W. Ribarsky, L. F. Hodges, N. Faust, and G. A. Turner, "Real-Time, Continuous Level of Detail Rendering of Height Fields," ACM SIGGRAPH 96, pp. 109-118, August 1996. [PDF]

Koller, D., P. Lindstrom, W. Ribarsky, L. F. Hodges, N. Faust, and G. Turner, "Virtual GIS: A Real-Time 3D Geographic Information System," IEEE Visualization '95, pp. 94-100, October 1995. [PDF]

Technical Reports

Silva, C., Y.-J. Chiang, W. Correa, J. El-Sana, and P. Lindstrom, "Out-of-Core Algorithms for Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics," LLNL technical report UCRL-JC-150434-REV-1, March 2003. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P. and G. Turk, "Image-Driven Mesh Optimization," Georgia Institute of Technology technical report GIT-GVU-00-16, June 2000. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P., D. Koller, W. Ribarsky, L. F. Hodges, A. Op den Bosch, and N. Faust, "An Integrated Global GIS and Visual Simulation System," Georgia Institute of Technology technical report GIT-GVU-97-07, March 1997. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P., D. Koller, L. F. Hodges, W. Ribarsky, N. Faust, and G. Turner, "Level-of-Detail Management for Real-Time Rendering of Phototextured Terrain," Georgia Institute of Technology technical report GIT-GVU-95-06, January 1995. [PDF]

Tutorials

Cignoni, P., L. De Floriani, P. Lindstrom, V. Pascucci, J. Rossignac, and C. Silva, "Multi-resolution Modeling, Visualization and Streaming of Volume Meshes," Tutorial #2, Eurographics 2004, August 2004. [PDF]

Silva, C. T., Y.-J. Chiang, J. El-Sana, P. Lindstrom, and R. Pajarola, "Out-of-Core Algorithms for Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics," Tutorial #4, IEEE Visualization 2003, October 2003. [PPT]

Bartz, D., C. T. Silva, J. T. Klosowski, P. Lindstrom, and W. Schroeder, "High-Performance Visualization of Large and Complex Scientific Datasets," Tutorial M9, SC 2002, November 2002. [PDF]

Silva, C. T., Y.-J. Chiang, J. El-Sana, and P. Lindstrom, "Out-of-Core Algorithms for Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics," Tutorial #4, IEEE Visualization 2002, October 2002. [PDF]

Invited Presentations

Lindstrom, P., "Data Locality in Computer Graphics," Eurographics Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, Keynote, June 2005. [PDF]

Lindstrom, P., "Cache-Coherent Meshes," Dagstuhl Seminar on Scientific Visualization, June 2005.

Lindstrom, P., "Interactive Visualization of Large Geometric Data Sets," Chalmers University of Technology, June 2003.

Lindstrom, P., "Streaming Meshes," Dagstuhl Seminar on Scientific Visualization, June 2003.

Lindstrom, P., "Out-of-Core Surface Simplification," University of California, Davis, lectures on "Multiresolution Methods," February 2003. [PPT]

Lindstrom, P., "Visualization Research at LLNL," Elon University, November 2002.

Lindstrom, P., "Image-Driven Simplification," Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, minisymposium on "Mesh Modeling and Processing," November 1999. [Slides]

Other

Miller, P., P. Lindstrom, and A. Cook, "Visualizations of the Dynamics of a Vortical Flow," American Physical Society 20th Annual Gallery of Fluid Motion, November 2002. [QuickTime]