David McAllister

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

David McAllister is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, David McAllister has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 5 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in David McAllister's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (13 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (9 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (5 papers). David McAllister is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (13 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (9 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (5 papers). David McAllister collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. David McAllister's co-authors include Manuel M. Oliveira, Gary Bishop, Anselmo Lastra, Jared Hoberock, Austin Robison, Steven G. Parker, Heiko Friedrich, James Bigler, Andreas Dietrich and Morgan McGuire and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Graphics and Eurographics.

In The Last Decade

David McAllister

13 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

OptiX

2010 472 citations Steven G. Parker, James Bigler et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David McAllister United States	12	708	703	367	103	94	13	1.1k
Morgan McGuire United States	20	749 1.1×	946 1.3×	310 0.8×	73 0.7×	94 1.0×	48	1.4k
Heiko Friedrich Germany	11	592 0.8×	522 0.7×	311 0.8×	91 0.9×	71 0.8×	16	910
Ulf Assarsson Sweden	19	788 1.1×	740 1.1×	325 0.9×	146 1.4×	48 0.5×	54	1.1k
James Bigler United States	9	563 0.8×	430 0.6×	358 1.0×	73 0.7×	56 0.6×	9	893
Vlastimil Havran Czechia	18	742 1.0×	651 0.9×	330 0.9×	31 0.3×	73 0.8×	81	1.1k
Jared Hoberock United States	9	407 0.6×	426 0.6×	196 0.5×	72 0.7×	60 0.6×	10	757
Carsten Benthin Germany	17	1.2k 1.7×	1.0k 1.4×	643 1.8×	65 0.6×	48 0.5×	37	1.5k
Andreas Fabri France	11	345 0.5×	217 0.3×	211 0.6×	71 0.7×	74 0.8×	18	773
Mark J. Kilgard United Kingdom	13	625 0.9×	564 0.8×	362 1.0×	282 2.7×	41 0.4×	22	1.2k
Tzu‐Mao Li United States	12	553 0.8×	749 1.1×	383 1.0×	129 1.3×	43 0.5×	35	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by David McAllister

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Fields of papers citing papers by David McAllister

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David McAllister

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David McAllister. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David McAllister based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David McAllister. David McAllister is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Parker, Steven G., Heiko Friedrich, David Luebke, et al.. (2013). GPU ray tracing. Communications of the ACM. 56(5). 93–101. 21 indexed citations

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Pantaleoni, Jacopo, et al.. (2011). Simpler and faster HLBVH with work queues. 59–64. 86 indexed citations

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Parker, Steven G., James Bigler, Andreas Dietrich, et al.. (2010). OptiX. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 29(4). 1–13. 472 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nyland, Lars, David McAllister, Voicu Popescu, et al.. (2003). The impact of dense range data on computer graphics. 3–10. 12 indexed citations

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McAllister, David, Anselmo Lastra, & Wolfgang Heidrich. (2002). Efficient rendering of spatial bi-directional reflectance distribution functions. 79–88. 80 indexed citations

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McAllister, David, et al.. (2002). The spatial bi-directional reflectance distribution function. 265–265. 16 indexed citations

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McAllister, David & Anselmo Lastra. (2002). A generalized surface appearance representation for computer graphics. 30 indexed citations

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McAllister, David, et al.. (2001). Fast matrix multiplies using graphics hardware. 55–55. 129 indexed citations

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Nyland, Lars, et al.. (2000). <title>Interactive exploration of acquired 3D data</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3905. 46–57. 4 indexed citations

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McAllister, David. (2000). The Design of an API for Particle Systems. 17 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Manuel M., Gary Bishop, & David McAllister. (2000). Relief texture mapping. 359–368. 192 indexed citations

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Nyland, Lars, et al.. (2000). <title>Capturing, processing, and rendering real-world scenes</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4309. 107–116. 14 indexed citations

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McAllister, David, et al.. (1999). Real-Time Rendering of Real World Environments. Eurographics. 145–160. 45 indexed citations

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