Ken Shoemake

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
7 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Ken Shoemake is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computational Mechanics and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Shoemake has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 4 papers in Computational Mechanics and 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Ken Shoemake's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (5 papers), Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (3 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (3 papers). Ken Shoemake is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (5 papers), Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (3 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (3 papers). Ken Shoemake collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ken Shoemake's co-authors include Jules Bloomenthal and Tom Duff and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Graphics Interface and Canada Human-Computer Communications Society.

In The Last Decade

Ken Shoemake

7 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Animating rotation with quaternion curves

1985 1.2k citations Ken Shoemake ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics profile →
Animating rotation with quaternion curves

1985 435 citations Ken Shoemake profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ken Shoemake United States	7	956	736	581	494	324	7	2.2k
Brian Mirtich United States	13	919 1.0×	347 0.5×	775 1.3×	513 1.0×	241 0.7×	15	1.9k
Brian A. Barsky United States	27	1.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.9×	391 0.7×	1.0k 2.1×	129 0.4×	87	3.0k
Jane Wilhelms United States	24	1.4k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	702 1.2×	1.6k 3.2×	108 0.3×	44	2.5k
Sung Yong Shin South Korea	27	2.1k 2.2×	553 0.8×	1.5k 2.6×	351 0.7×	141 0.4×	73	2.9k
Qunsheng Peng China	26	1.3k 1.4×	753 1.0×	175 0.3×	897 1.8×	105 0.3×	197	2.2k
Gavin Miller United States	21	969 1.0×	902 1.2×	270 0.5×	1.3k 2.7×	75 0.2×	31	2.0k
Luiz Velho Brazil	27	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.7×	159 0.3×	1.3k 2.7×	131 0.4×	190	2.7k
Kurt Fleischer United States	15	1.4k 1.5×	2.4k 3.2×	883 1.5×	2.2k 4.5×	104 0.3×	26	3.9k
Hanqiu Sun Hong Kong	21	1.2k 1.2×	343 0.5×	109 0.2×	424 0.9×	116 0.4×	148	1.7k
John C. Beatty Canada	11	589 0.6×	505 0.7×	164 0.3×	308 0.6×	80 0.2×	24	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ken Shoemake

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ken Shoemake

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Shoemake

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ken Shoemake. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ken Shoemake 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 Ken Shoemake. Ken Shoemake is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Shoemake, Ken. (1992). ARCBALL: A user interface for specifying three-dimensional orientation using a mouse. Canada Human-Computer Communications Society. 151–156. 127 indexed citations

2.

Shoemake, Ken & Tom Duff. (1992). Matrix animation and polar decomposition. Graphics Interface. 125(2). 258–264. 121 indexed citations

3.

Shoemake, Ken. (1991). Quaternion Calculus for Animation. 14 indexed citations

4.

Bloomenthal, Jules & Ken Shoemake. (1991). Convolution surfaces. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 25(4). 251–256. 90 indexed citations

5.

Bloomenthal, Jules & Ken Shoemake. (1991). Convolution surfaces. 251–256. 185 indexed citations

6.

Shoemake, Ken. (1985). Animating rotation with quaternion curves. 245–254. 435 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Shoemake, Ken. (1985). Animating rotation with quaternion curves. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 19(3). 245–254. 1183 indexed citations breakdown →

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