Kevin Christiansen

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I got my BS and MS from Brigham Young Univeristy (BYU) in the field of computer science, specializing in computer vision and image processing. My master's thesis involved a new method for brightness-invariant color segmentation for a robotic guidance system, with segmentation-driven color stereo matching and panoramic imaging. I spent 3 years with the Stage 3 Research Group in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (in Pittsburgh, PA) doing Virtual Reality research and working on the Alice 3-D Graphics programming environment. While in Pittsburgh, I met my wife, Naomi. About a year after we got married, we moved to Springville, UT, and lived there for about five years, while I worked for Crystal Canyon Interactive (now defunct) and VMI as a computer programmer. We now live in Sierra Vista, AZ, and I still work as a computer programmer.

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Email: Kevin.ChristXiansen.ctr@disa.mil (remove the 'X' before using)

Current & Past Projects:

A simple home-made laser microscope.
High-speed photography - done on the cheap with a digital camera.
High voltage photography See a dime glow at 75,000 volts!
What to do with those pesky AOL CDROMs that keep arriving in the mail
Cast aluminum in your back yard.
Exploding wires.
Can crushing - crush an aluminum soda pop can without actually touching it.
Kinetic Television - how to safely salvage electronic parts from a television without violating any of the warning labels.
Low-cost spectrograph - A very simple relatively high-resolution spectrograph/spectrometer built out of a digital camera and some misc junk.

Kevin Christiansen

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