Kees van Overveld, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Dutch physicist
Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1957
Date of Death: 16-Dec-2014
Profession: physicist
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Kees van Overveld
- C.W.A.M.
- (Kees) van Overveld (8 November 1957, Roosendaal – 16 December 2014, Eindhoven) was a Dutch physicist and lecturer in design methodology.
- He worked at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Kees van Overveld studied physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology until 1981.
- Four years later he earned a PhD in technical sciences in 1985 for his thesis “On an inversion procedure for nuclear transition densities”.
- During this period, from 1981 to 1985, he was a research assistant at FOM-service of the experimental nuclear physics group of T.H.
- Eindhoven.
- Later he worked as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science of the TUe on computer graphics and simulation.
- Since the nineties, he was a researcher in the field of 3D television and later consultant at Philips Research.
- He worked also as a teacher in the design methodology at the Stan Ackermans Institute TUe. Kees van Overveld is an author of numerous patents, amongst others: "Method and apparatus for computing a computer graphics image of a textured surface" US 6614446 B1 "Method and device for visualizing on a two-dimensional screen a hierarchical information structure based on nodes interconnected by edges, through fisheyed representation of nodes" US 6057843 A "Computer graphics system and method of rendering polygons" US 20030016232 A1 "Embedding and detecting a watermark in an information signal" US 20010032315 A1 "Computer graphics animation method and device" US 6515668 B1 "Method and system for providing a user profile" US 7010547 B2Big interest of Kees van Overveld in images brought him also to artistic cooperations.
- He was also active in theatre.
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