Hi, my name is Rudy Neeser, and you’ve reached my blog.

I’m a full time PhD student at Computer Science Department the University of Cape Town, where I’m working on procedural methods for content generation.

Before starting my PhD full time, I worked for the Geomatics Department of the University of Cape Town, on the Zamani cultural heritage project run by the department. The project involved surveying places of historical and cultural interest throughout sub-Saharan Africa, such as mosques in Djenne and Timbuktu (towns in Mali; example data is available for Timbuktu and Djenne), and the rock hewn churches of Lalibela (data), in Ethiopia. I travelled to many of the places that we worked at, which has been some of the most fun I’ve had in the last few years. Much of the data has been made available through Aluka, and you can read more about the Geomatics Department’s work here.

I’m interested in various things — research wise I enjoy procedural and formal methods, and I have an interest in palaeoanthropology (the study of human evolution through the fossil record) and quantitative analysis. Just for fun I enjoy reading and writing; movies are a blast, with Lost in Translation being my favourite.

But that’s enough about me for this page. You can read more about me through the rest of this blog, or you can find me elsewhere online.

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