Research:
My research in computer graphics is focused on geometric modeling. I am also passionate about computer science education and integrating creativity and computing. My master's student thesis projects can be found here.
Here are links to my publications - note that for copies of my publications please see my Cal Poly Digital Commons profile:

Creative Choice in Fifth Grade Computing Curriculum K. Mork, J. Wilcox and Z. Wood, Proceedings of Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) , 2020

Introducing Computing to a Cohort of Incarcerated Youth, Proceedings of ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education), 2020

Mapping and visualization of publication networks of public university faculty in computer science and electrical engineering, C. Carroll, N. Garg, T. Migler, B. Walker and Z. Wood, ISCA International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA 2020) Webpage

Virtual Planning and Testing of AUV Paths for Underwater Photogrammetry, A. Lewis, K. Yager, M. Keller, B. Galvan, R. Bingham, S. Ting, J. Wu, T. Gambin, C. Clark and Z. Wood, 15th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 2020

Underwater Photogrammetry Reconstruction: GPU Texture Generation from Videos Captured via AUV (Kolton Yager, Christopher Clark, Timmy Gambin, and Zoe J. Wood), ISVC '19

Fakesbook: A social networking platform for teaching security and privacy concepts to secondary school students, M. Zinkus, O. Curry, M. Moore, Z. Peterson, Z. Wood , Proceedings of ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education), 2019

Mixed Approaches to CS0: Exploring topic and pedagogy variance after six years of CS0, Z. Wood, J. Clements, Z. Peterson, D. Janzen, H. Smith, M. Haungs, J. Workman, J. Bellardo, and B. Debruhl, Proceedings of ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education), 2018

Intelligent Shipwreck Search Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles J. Rutledge, W. Yuan, J. Wu, S. Freed, A. Lewis, Z. Wood, T. Gambin, C. Clark, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Cinematographic and Geometric Criteria for Virtual Camera Path Generation for the Visualization of Shipwreck Data, K. Davis, V. Viswanthan, C. Clark, T. Gambin, and Z. Wood, Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2018)

Pipeline for Reconstruction and Visualization of Underwater Archaeology Sites using Photogrammetry (S. Seibert von Fock, S. Bilich, K. Davis, V. Viswanthan, Z. Lobo, J. Lupanow, C. Clark, T. Gambin, Z. Wood) CATA (2017) - *Best Paper Award at conference*

AUV Motion-Planning for Photogrammetric Reconstruction of Marine Archaeological Sites (V. Viswanthan, Z. Lobo, J. Lupanow, S. Seibert von Fock,Z. Wood, T. Gambin, and C. Clark) ICRA (2017)

Computational Art - Introducing High School Students to Computing via Art (Z. Wood, K. Hicks, and P. Muhl) SIGCSE (2015)

Building Worlds: Bridging Imperative-First and Object-Oriented Programming in CS1-CS2 (Z. Wood and A. Keen) SIGCSE (2014)

Surface Reconstruction of Ancient Water Storage Systems An Approach for Sparse 3D Sonar Scans and Fused Stereo Images (E. Nelson, I. Dunn, J. Forrester, T. Gambin, C. Clark, Z. Wood) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2014)

Towards three-dimensional underwater mapping without odometry (A. Dobke, J. Vasquez, L. Lieu, B. Chasnov, C. Clark, I. Dunn, Z. Wood, T. Gambin) Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology Conference 2013 Proceedings: Portsmouth, NH (2013)

Uncertainty Visualization and Hole Filling for Geometric Models of Ancient Water System> (J. Forrester, W. McVicker, T. Gambin, C. Clark and Z. Wood) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Application (IVAPP 2013) More details on the Malta Mapping project

FlexRender: A Distributed Rendering Architecture for Ray Tracing Huge Scenes on Commodity Hardware (R. Somers and Z. Wood) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, (GRAPP)

Cross Teaching Parallelisn and Ray Tracing:A Project-based Approach to Teaching Applied Parallel Computing (C. Lupo, Z. Wood and C. Victorino) SIGCSE (2012)

An Approach to Point Based Approximate Color Bleeding with Volumes (C. Gibson and Z. Wood) Advances in Visual Computing (2011)

Surface Reconstruction of Maltese Cisterns using ROV Sonar Data for Archeological Study (C. Forney, J. Forrester, B. Bagley, W. McVicker, J. White, T. Smith, J. Batryn, A. Gonzlaez, J. Lehr, T. Gambin, C. Clark and Z. Wood) Advances in Visual Computing (2011) More details on the Malta Mapping project

Real-Time Visualizations of Ocean Data Collected by the NORUS Glider (D. Medina and Z. Wood) ISOPE paper

Finding Good Paths: Applications of Least Cost Caloric Path Computations (Z. Wood, G. Hoffman, and M. Wazny) Proceedings of CATA, 2010

Energetic Path Finding Across Massive Terrain Data (A. Tsui and Z. Wood) Proceedings of ISVC, 2009

Two-dimensinal Computer-generated Ornamentation using a user-driven global planning strategy (D. Anderson and Z. Wood) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Advances in Visual Computing), Springer Verlag, 2008

Locating the Source of Topological Error in Reconstructed 3D Models (E. Firestone and C. Povey and Z. Wood) Proceedings of SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, January 2008

Direct Extraction of Normal Mapped Meshes from Volume Data (M. Barry and Z. Wood) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Advances in Visual Computing), Springer Verlag, 2007

Using Hybrid Approaches to Solve the Challenges of Shape from Shading (R. Murphy and Z. Wood) Proceedings of SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, January 2008

Interactive Thin Shells - A Model Interface for the Analysis of Physically-based Animation (J. Skorupski, Z. Wood and A. Pang) Proceedings of CAINE, San Francisco, CA, November 2007

Discrete Shells Origami (R. Burgoon, E. Grinspun & Z. Wood) Proceedings of CATA, Seattle, WA, March 2006

Energetically Optimal Travel across Terrain: Visualizations and a New Metric of Geographic Distance with Archaeological Applications (B. Wood & Z. Wood) Proceedings of SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, January 2006

An Out-of-core Algorithm for Isosurface Topology Simplification (Z. Wood, H. Hoppe, M. Desbrun & P. Schröder) ACM TOG, April 2004

Multi-Chart Geometry Images (P. Sander, Z. Wood, S. Gortler, J. Snyder, H. Hoppe) Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2003

Topological Noise Removal (I. Guskov & Z. Wood) Graphics Interface 2001

Semi-Regular Mesh Extraction from Volumes (Z. Wood, M. Desbrun, P. Schröder & D. Breen) IEEE Visualization 2000

Integrated Visualization of Realtime Environmental Data (E. Saxon, Z. Wood, M. O'Neil, C. Oates, J. Story, S. Djurcilov and A. Pang) Proceedings of the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, 1997, Slovakia

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