/**  * Eric D. Wills, Ph.D.  * Computer and Information Science  * University of Oregon  */

Interests

• Fullstack app development
• Video game development
• Analytics
• 2D and 3D rendering
• Interactive skeletal animation
• Physics-based animation
• Programmable shaders
• CPU/GPU instruction sets and architectures
• Genetic algorithms and related AI

Featured Projects

• Marco Polo (Android, iOS)
• Fliplib (Android, iOS)
• Cleo (Android, iOS)
• Ziggurat
• StaticFlow
• Save the Dinos
• Necks in Motion
  
• DinoMorph

Publications

• Wills, E. D. (2012). Demystifying Python Metaclasses. Proceedings of OSCON '12.
• Stevens, K. A., & Wills, E. D. (2009). Non-parasagittal yet efficient: The role of the pectoral girdles and trunk in the walk of Triceratops and Apatosaurus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29(Suppl. 3A), 198.
• Stevens, K. A., & Wills, E. D. (2008). Reconstructing gaits kinematically: from sprawling to parasagittal. Proceedings of the Symposium on Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, 56, 57.
• Stevens, K. A., Larson, P., Wills, E. D., & Andersen, A. (2008). Rex, sit: Digital modeling of Tyrannosaurus rex at rest. In P. Larson & K. Carpenter (Eds.), Tyrannosaurus rex: The tyrant king. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• Wills, E. D. (2008). Gait Animation and Analysis for Biomechanically-Articulated Skeletons (Doctoral dissertation, University of Oregon, 2008). Dissertation Abstracts International (in press).
• Stevens, K. A., & Wills, E. D. (2007). Kinematic constraints on the reconstruction of Dinosaur gaits. Proceedings of the Symposium on Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, 55, 54.
• Wills, E. D., & Stevens, K. A. (2007). Computational explorations of quadrupedal locomotion in Dinosaurs based on modern analogs. Proceedings of the American Society of Biomechanics Northwest Symposium, 3, 18.
• Wills, E. D., & Stevens, K. A. (2007). Isolating functional degrees of freedom in limbs during locomotion. Proceedings of the Symposium on Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, 55, 46.
• Stevens, K. A., Wills, E. D., & Ernst, S. W. (2006). 3D Visualization of allometric changes in whole skeletons: Posture, proportion, and range of motion. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26(Suppl. 3A), 128.
• Stevens, K. A., Larson, P., & Wills, E. D. (2005). Rex, sit: Modeling tyrannosaurid postures. In O. Potapova & R. Summers (Chairs), 100 Years of Tyrannosaurus rex.  Symposium conducted at the Black Hills Institute, Hill City, SD.
• Stevens, K. A., Parrish, J. M., & Wills, E. D. (2005). Ontogenetic changes within the tyrannosaurid skeleton. In R. Scherer (Chair), Tyrannosaur Symposium 2005. Symposium conducted at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, IL.
• Stevens, K. A., & Wills, E. D. (2001). Gracile versus robust cervical vertebral designs in sauropods. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21(Suppl. 3A), 104.