Henrik Wann Jensen's Press Articles

Selected Press Articles

"Photorealistic Rendering: Making the Virtual into Reality"
Optics & Photonics News, Jan. 2009

"Killer 3D technologies for 2009"
3D World, Dec. 2008

"Meet the Danish IT-stars from USA" (org. Mød de danske it-stjerner fra USA)
ComputerWorld, Oct. 2008

"Under the surface - from Gollum to Yoghurt" (org. Under overflader - fra Gollum til Yoghurt)
Aktuel Naturvidenskab no. 3, June 2008

"Moving closer to a 'Matrix'-style virtual world"
msnbc, May 2008

"Photon Copies"
Wired Magazine, May 2008

"A Better Fog and Smoke Machine From Computer Scientists"
Science Daily, April 20, 2008

"Will we be able to tell reality from artificial imagery"
Financial Times, January 29, 2008

"Hollywood can't hog simulations this good"
New Scientist, December 1, 2007

10 minute interview for "Digital Planet"
BBC Radio London, August 27, 2007

"Instant Milk"
Science Magazine (vol 317), August 17, 2007

"Bright Idea"
Financial Times, August 17, 2007

"Cooking up a digital treat"
BBC News, August 14, 2007

"Seeing Your Smoke and Breathing It Too"
Dr. Dobbs Journal, August 9, 2007

"Dansk Oscar-forsker simulerer digital letmaelk" (Eng. Danish Oscar-researcher simulates digital skim-milk)
Ingeniøren, August 8, 2007

3 minute interview for CNN Explorers.
CNN, September 8, 2006

"Computer Animated Blonds Have More Fun".
Seed Magazine, August 4, 2006

"Professor on the red carpet".
Urban, July 10, 2006

"The worlds coolest dane". (org. "Verdens sejeste dansker")
13 minute interview for Danish Radio P3, July 1, 2006

"Mosters of Photorealism".
Wired News, Dec. 5, 2005

"Rendering Human Skin".
The Eizoshimbun (Japan), July 25, 2005

"Multilayered Translucent Materials".
CGIWorld, (Japan), Vol. 85, July 2005

"Animators, Beauty Scientists Share Trick to Glowing Skin".
ABC News, April 2005

"Doublelife in Cyberspace" (org. ``Dobbelt liv i Cyberspace'').
Illustreret Videnskab, Januar 2005

"Portrait: The professor that refuses to pick sides" (org. "Professoren der naegter at vaelge side").
Computerworld, December 2004

"An Oscar winner came to visit" (org. "En Oscar vinder kom forbi").
Jyske Vestkysten, September 2004

"Young scientists prove 'Popular' with magazine"
USA Today
September 2004

"Brilliant 10 - Henrik Jensen"
Popular Science
September 2004
"Mathematical Illusions" (org. "Matematiske Illusioner")
Jyllands Posten
June 2004
"Skin Deep"
Millimeter Magazine
May 2004
"Perfect Digital Skin"
Slashdot
May 2004
"Virtual skin looking even better"
BBC News
May 2004
"Softer Virtual Skin"
MIT Technology Review
April 2004
"Paint the Light Fantastic"
Discover
April 2004
3 minute story and interview
FOX News
March 2004
"Hollywood Awards Scientific and Technology Oscars"
Washington Post
February 2004
"Simulating smoke"
CGworld
Japan, February 2004
"The Academy honors its technical geeks"
MSNBC
February 2004
"Oscar honors its geeks"
Yahoo! News
February 2004
"Oscar honors geeks at Sci-Tech awards"
CNN/Reuters
February 2004
"Five Questions: Henrik Wann Jensen"
San Diego Tribune
February 2004
"Oscar to UCSD Professor"
Channel 10 News
February 2004
"UCSD Professor receives an Oscar"
KUSI-TV News(2 minute interview)
February 2004
"From Harlev to Hollywood"
Aarhus Stiftstidende
February 2004
"Henrik receives a technical Oscar"
Østjyllands radio(2 minute live phone-interview)
February 2004
"UC San Diego professor to receive technical Oscar"
San Diego Tribune
January 2004
"Great Balls of Fire"
MIT Technology Review
December 2003 / January 2004
"Under the skin" (org. "Ind under huden")
Ingeniøren
Denmark, Dec. 2003
"Digital Light" (org. "Digitalt Lys")
Danish Illumination Engineering Society
Denmark, November 2003
"Day of Light" (org. "Lysets Dag")
Arkitekten Magasin
Denmark, November 2003
"3D Rendering History: To Photorealism and Beyond"
CGNetworks, October 2003
"Hasta la vista hr. stuntman"
Jyllands-posten
Denmark, October 2003
"Jensen's sense of milk" (org. "Jensen's fornemmelser for mælk")
BT
Denmark, October 2003
"Digital Face Cloning"
CG & Digital Video World
Japan, September 2003
"Photon Mapping on Programmable Graphics Hardware"
CG & Digital Video World
Japan, September 2003
"Digital Face Cloning"
The Eizoshimbun
Japan, July 2003
"Putting a Human Face on It"
Los Angeles Times
Column one (frontpage) story, December 2002
"Virtual Skin"
National Geographic
November 2002. Part of the cover feature on skin.
"Fast Translucency"
CG World
Japan, October 2002
"Fast Translucent Materials"
The Eizoshimbun
Japan, September 2002
"Fire"
CG & Digital Video World
Japan, July 2002
"Rendering Translucent Materials"
TechTV - Eye Drops
Episode Four, July 2002
"The Race to Build a Perfect Face"
Wired
Feature article, June 2002
"Volumetric Rendering"
CG & Digital Video World
Japan, May 2002
"Milk as a Challenge for Film" (Org. "Milch als filmische Herausforderung)
NANO (5 minutes of interview and presentation)
Shown on national tv in Austria, Germany, and Schwitzerland. February, 2002.
"New software makes PC-images look real" (Org. "Neue Software lasst PC-Bilder echt asusehen").
Welt am Sonntag
Germany, January, 2002
"Skin Deep"
Wired
December 2001
"Milk, Marble and Magic" (Org. "Mælk, Marmor og Magi").
ComputerWorld
Denmark, November 2001.
"The Softening of Computer Graphics"
Computer Graphics World
October 2001.
"Smoke Signals"
Computer Graphics World
September 2001.
"Making Graphics Soft"
The Eizoshimbun
Japan, September 2001
"Got Milk?"
Topeka Capital-Journal
September 2001.
"Hollywood gets a major digital boost"
The Times of India
India, September 2001.
"Global Illumination"
CG & Digital Video World
Japan, August 2001.
"White Fantastic"
New Scientist
August 2001.
"At Last, Computers Are Getting Milk"
Los Angeles Times
On the cover of the Business Section, and on the backcover with the title "Milk: One Of The Last Computer Graphics Challenges", August 2001
"A Taste of SIGGRAPH 2001"
Animation World Magazine
August 2001
"More Realistic Rendered Flesh"
Slashdot
July 2001
"A Festival of Animation, Animatedly"
The New York Times
Describes the animation "The Light of Mies van der Rohe", July 2000
"Michelangelo in the Virtual World" (Org. "Michelangelo i den virtuelle verden")
Børsen
Denmark, June 2000
"Double Play -- Symmetrical Multiprocessing with Linux"
c't magazin fur computer technik
Germany, 13/98

Last update: January, 2009

Henrik