Welcome to my personal web site! You can learn a little about me and what I do here.

Work & Projects: I am employed as a graphics software engineer at Autodesk in Atlanta GA, where I work on top-selling CAD applications such as Inventor and AutoCAD. You can find out more about my previous work here. My professional interests revolve around 3D graphics programming, both real-time and photorealistic.

Graphics & Web: I have also worked on several creative projects involving computer graphics and the Web, which you can learn about in my creative portfolio.

Video Games: When I need to take a break, I play video games, for basically any platform, but my platform of choice has always been the good old-fashioned PC. Favorites include Civilization 4 and Company of Heroes, among many others. I also run the Popular Opinion weekly video game poll at the Evil Avatar web site.

Quick list of other interests: Guinea pigs, Futurama, The Simpsons, LEGO, Transformers (Generation 1), Japanese pop music, World War II history, and all kinds of electronic gadgets.

Here are some topics I have written about:

• How Randy Pausch influenced my life.
• The SIGGRAPH 2003 computer graphics conference.

I will occasionally post photos and other thoughts for friends at Facebook. I also have a blog at LiveJournal, though I update it infrequently. Last but not least, if you'd like to get in touch with me, you can reach me at mauricio "at" mauriciovives.com. Thanks for stopping by!

— Mauricio
January 21^st, 2009