Nelson Max

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
155 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Nelson Max is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nelson Max has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 77 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 50 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Nelson Max's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (111 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (42 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (39 papers). Nelson Max is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (111 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (42 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (39 papers). Nelson Max collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Nelson Max's co-authors include Roger Crawfis, Barry Becker, Pat Hanrahan, Brian Cabral, Peter L. Williams, Neelima Sinha, David C. Slaughter, Thuy Tuong Nguyen, Julin Maloof and Hank Childs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Molecular Biology and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Nelson Max

150 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Optical models for direct volume rendering 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 200 400 600
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.

  1. Optical models for direct volume rendering
    1995 708 citations Nelson Max IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nelson Max United States 31 2.9k 2.3k 1.8k 219 185 155 3.9k
J.F. Blinn United States 23 3.3k 1.2× 2.7k 1.2× 2.3k 1.3× 189 0.9× 51 0.3× 100 4.8k
Loren Carpenter United States 13 2.7k 1.0× 2.4k 1.0× 1.6k 0.9× 195 0.9× 27 0.1× 21 3.7k
C. Montani Italy 29 1.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 190 0.9× 87 0.5× 57 3.0k
Ernst P. Mücke United States 9 998 0.3× 668 0.3× 804 0.4× 321 1.5× 256 1.4× 11 2.6k
David Cohen‐Steiner France 26 1.9k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 1.9k 1.0× 185 0.8× 157 0.8× 58 4.1k
Aaron Lefohn United States 30 1.5k 0.5× 2.0k 0.9× 884 0.5× 74 0.3× 117 0.6× 65 4.1k
Xinguo Liu China 30 1.1k 0.4× 966 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 86 0.4× 400 2.2× 180 3.0k
Henrik Wann Jensen United States 40 4.7k 1.6× 3.7k 1.6× 2.5k 1.4× 287 1.3× 15 0.1× 116 6.0k
Matt Pharr United States 13 1.5k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 721 0.4× 164 0.7× 18 0.1× 29 2.6k
Greg Humphreys United States 21 1.7k 0.6× 1.8k 0.8× 717 0.4× 140 0.6× 14 0.1× 37 3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Nelson Max

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nelson Max

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nelson Max

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Max, Nelson. (2021). Global illumination in sparse voxel octrees. The Visual Computer. 38(4). 1443–1456.
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Fan, Chengcheng, et al.. (2020). Optimization method to obtain appropriate spacing parameters for crop cultivation. International journal of agricultural and biological engineering. 13(1). 146–152. 1 indexed citations
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Fan, Chengcheng, et al.. (2020). Optimization method to obtain appropriate spacing parameters for crop cultivation. International journal of agricultural and biological engineering. 13(1). 146–152. 1 indexed citations
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Max, Nelson, et al.. (2019). New collision detection method for simulating virtual plant populations. International journal of agricultural and biological engineering. 12(6). 156–161. 2 indexed citations
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Max, Nelson, Tom Duff, Ben Mildenhall, & Yajie Yan. (2017). Approximations for the distribution of microflake normals. The Visual Computer. 34(3). 443–457. 1 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Thuy Tuong, David C. Slaughter, Nelson Max, Julin Maloof, & Neelima Sinha. (2015). Structured Light-Based 3D Reconstruction System for Plants. Sensors. 15(8). 18587–18612. 135 indexed citations
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Wu, Shuisheng, et al.. (2015). A calculation method of plant similarity giving consideration to different plant features. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 387. 136–143. 1 indexed citations
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Edmunds, M., Robert S. Laramee, R. Malki, et al.. (2014). Interactive Stream Surface Placement - A Hybrid Clustering Approach Supported by Tree Maps. Cronfa (Swansea University). 347–355. 2 indexed citations
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Edmunds, Matt, Robert S. Laramee, Guoning Chen, Eugene Zhang, & Nelson Max. (2012). Advanced, Automatic Stream Surface Seeding and Filtering. Eurographics. 53–60. 13 indexed citations
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Max, Nelson, et al.. (2004). Diffusion and Multiple Anisotropic Scattering for Global Illumination in Clouds. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 277–284. 10 indexed citations
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Cook, Richard J., et al.. (2004). Image-space visibility ordering for cell projection volume rendering of unstructured data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 10(6). 695–707. 18 indexed citations
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Drettakis, George & Nelson Max. (1998). Rendering techniques '98 : proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Vienna, Austria, June 29-July 1, 1998. Springer eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Max, Nelson. (1998). Visualizing Hilbert curves. IEEE Visualization. 447–450. 8 indexed citations
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Max, Nelson. (1998). Visualizing Hilbert curves. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 447–450. 4 indexed citations
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Becker, Barry, David A. Lane, & Nelson Max. (1995). Unsteady flow volumes. IEEE Visualization. 329–335. 24 indexed citations
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Max, Nelson, et al.. (1994). Visualizing 3D velocity fields near contour surfaces. IEEE Visualization. 248–255. 41 indexed citations
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Crawfis, Roger & Nelson Max. (1993). Texture splats for 3D scalar and vector field visualization. IEEE Visualization. 261–266. 101 indexed citations
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Max, Nelson, Barry Becker, & Roger Crawfis. (1993). Flow volumes for interactive vector field visualization. IEEE Visualization. 19–24. 54 indexed citations
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Max, Nelson, Roger Crawfis, & D. N. Williams. (1992). Visualizing wind velocities by advecting cloud textures. IEEE Visualization. 179–184. 46 indexed citations
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Max, Nelson. (1991). Computer assisted sphere packing in higher dimensions. IEEE Visualization. 102–108. 1 indexed citations

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