Jonathan B. Metzgar

Welcome

Welcome to my page. Here you will find a list of my current research areas. Click on the headers to collapse those sections. You will also find the courses I am teaching or have taught. I am on LinkedIn, feel free to connect if we have met or you have taken a class. Grad students, please read my guidelines page for a summary of my M.S. project expectations.

I am originally from the State of New Mexico, the land of enchantment and the place to get the best red and green chili. I enlisted in the US Air Force (Aim high!) in 2001 and enjoyed serving with the Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) and US Central Command (USCENTCOM) until 2017. During this time, I attended the University of Colorado Colorado Springs where I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science. In January 2018, I began my position as assistant professor with the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

You may find me in my office in Duckering 543, where I often go to think deeply about computer graphics and computer science. Well, actually that is everywhere I go. I think about it constantly. Welcome!

Note to solicitors: Please do not send me information. I am unable to respond to requests.

Contact Information

Phone	(907) 474-6104
Email	jbmetzgar@alaska.edu
Orcid	0000-0003-4055-3518
Social Media	LinkedIn Twitter (microwerx_) UAF Computer Graphics and AI
Office	Duckering 543
Office Hours	TH 5:10-6pm H 10-2pm By appointment
Websites	ResearchGate Metzgar Research M Factor Games
Professional Associations	ACM IEEE Audio Engineering Society (AES)

Active Research

Computer Graphics

Script icon Realtime Global Illumination

Script icon Multispectral Fresnel Reflectance

Idea icon 1 Realtime Ray Tracing

Idea icon 1 Nonphotorealistic Rendering

Idea icon 1 Astronomical Illumination

Game Development

Idea icon 1 Procedural Generation

Ruler icon Design Patterns

Idea icon 1 Human Computer Interaction

Idea icon 1 Virtual Reality

Animation and Simulation

Idea icon 1 Fluid Dynamics

Idea icon 1 Galaxy Simulation Models

Idea icon 1 Image Classification

Chart icon Distributed Computing

Artificial Intelligence

Idea icon 1 Artificial Life

Idea icon 1 Cellular Automata

Idea icon 1 Neural Networks

Idea icon 1 Evolutionary Computation

Idea icon 1 Dynamical Systems

Center for Safety Equity in Transportation (CSET)

Chart icon Dust Palliative Mean Particle Residence Time Calculator

Idea icon 1 Enabling Data-driven Transportation Safety improvements in Rural Alaska

Published Research

Graphics

Eye icon Realtime Global Illumination with Scalable Spherical Harmonics Hierarchies 2019. Jonathan Brian Metzgar and Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH’19", 2019.

Check icon Applying ZeroMQ to Realtime Global Illumination Rendering 2019. Jonathan Brian Metzgar and Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D'19). Montreal, Quebec, CA

Tool icon Groovy Graphics Assignment: A Journey in Computer Graphics 2019. Jonathan Brian Metzgar. In .

Check icon Optimizing Spectral Fresnel Reflectance for Displays 2018. Jonathan Brian Metzgar and Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal. In WSCG 2018 26th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2018. Plzen, CZ

Check icon Realtime Physically Plausible Global Illumination Using Scalable Spherical Harmonics Hierarchies 2018. Jonathan Brian Metzgar. In Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Check icon Approximating the Fire Flicker Effect Using Local Dynamic Radiance Maps 2012. Jonathan Brian Metzgar and Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal. In WSCG 2012 20th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2012. Plzen, CZ

Check icon Realtime Global Illumination of Moving Fire Light Sources 2011. Jonathan Brian Metzgar. In M.S. Thesis, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Check icon Crossover Applications 2009. B. Wilke, Jonathan Metzgar, K. Johnson, S. Semwal, B. Snyder, KaChun Yu, D. Neafus. In IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2009. Lafayette, LA, USA

CSET

Check icon Dust Palliative Mean Particle Residence Time Calculator 2018. Jonathan Brian Metzgar, Diane M. Murph, and David L. Barnes. In 2018 PacTrans Region 10 Transportation Conference. Fairbanks, AK, USA

Current and Past Courses

Semester	Number	Course
S20	CS 202	Computer Science II
S20	CS 480/680	Game Design & Architecture
F19	CS 201	Computer Science I
F19	CS 484/684	Computer Graphics Fundamentals
S19	CS 405/605	Arificial Intelligence Fundamentals
S19	CS 481/681	Computer Graphics Rendering
S19	CS 482/680	Computer Graphics Animation and Simulation
F18	CS 480/680	Computer Graphics Fundamentals
S18	CS 481/681	Computer Graphics Rendering

CS 201 Computer Science I (Fall)

The discipline of computer science including problem solving, algorithm development, structured programming, top-down design, good programming style, object-oriented programming and elementary data structures. Concepts implemented with extensive programming experience in a structured language and with a group programming project.

CS 202 Computer Science II (Spring)

CS 484/684 Computer Graphics Fundamentals (Fall)

Learn the fundamentals of computer graphics including vector and matrix mathematics, 2D and 3D primitives, rendering algorithms, and application design.

CS 485/685 Computer Graphics Rendering (Spring Odd Years)

Learn advanced rendering techniques including realtime rendering, physically based shading, ray tracing, ray marching, precomputed radiance transfer, procedural generation, and nonphotorealistic rendering.

CS 486/686 Computer Graphics Animation and Simulation (Spring Odd Years)

Learn the fundamentals of computer graphics simulations with applications in collision detection, particle systems, fluids, and rigid body dynamics.

CS 487 Game Design and Architecture (Spring Even Years)

Learn about game design and architecture including experiences, elements, themes, iteration, game mechanics, puzzles, stories, design patterns, and more! Concepts are integrated with extensive programming, design and study of a game engine.

CS 405/605 Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals (Spring)

Learn the fundamentals of artificial intelligence including historical approaches, uninformed and informed search, games, knowledge representation, machine learning, evolutionary computation, and neural networks.

Thank You For Visiting

"TLDR;" That stands for "Too long, didn't read." But if you did, thank you for visiting and I hope the information was useful. If you happened to have seen an error in the information I provided, please let me know. Adios!