Biographical data
I am an independent researcher – call me a consultant, if you must – specializing in the physics, mathematics, and engineering of digital colour imaging systems, including digital video, HD/UHD, and digital cinema (d-cinema). I live and work in Toronto, Canada.
Brief bios are available.
I earned my PhD in 2018 at Simon Fraser University; my supervisor was Brian Funt. My dissertation is available.
For nearly three decades, I have been using Mathematica/Wolfram Language to do analysis, design, modelling, and simulation of signal, colour, and video processing systems. I am also licensed and experienced in MATLAB and the Image Processing Toolbox.
I pay a great deal of attention to communicating my work, both to my clients (by writing technical reports, proposals, analysis documents, and the like), and to the wider community (by teaching courses and seminars and by writing books). I execute my own illustrations (using Adobe Illustrator), and typeset my own work (historically using Adobe FrameMaker, now using InDesign).
I live in Toronto with my partner Barbara Morris – a psychotherapist. She just published a new book; see barbaramorris.ca.
Allow me to introduce myself, in video.
I have migrated from hand-crafted artisinal html to Hugo. There are some pages that I haven’t converted yet; please bear with inconsistent presentation for a while.
All writing on this site is done without AI/LLMs. I occasionally use AI/LLM tools for research, and I occasionally use AI coding tools, but I do not use AI for writing.
“Problems can be solved, but dilemmas can only be managed.”
– Jeffrey Snover
via John D Cook