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 Borderlands, among many others. I ran the Popular Opinion video game poll at the Evil Avatar web site for over 100 games from 2007 to 2009.

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:

• The SIGGRAPH 2003 computer graphics conference - now ancient history!
• How Randy Pausch influenced my life.
• Photos from the I3D 2008 interactive 3D graphics conference.
• Some "Plants vs. Zombies" shirts that my wife made (here is the game).
• Speeches made in Congress after the Japanese attack on the United States in 1941.

I will occasionally post photos and other thoughts for friends at Facebook. 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
December 8^th, 2009