John K. Grant

Senior Software Engineer

Mr. Grant is a software engineer by trade, focusing on image generation for distributed simulation. He has designed software for heterogeneous systems, balancing the computational load across the CPU and GPU for improved realism in virtual environments.

He has contributed to the simulation products by architecting high level modules that allow for physically based effects which are used in the driving simulator, STISIM Drive™, the parachute simulator, PARASIM®, animation and computer vision tasks in Fused Reality. He has added support to use animation and shading resources created by graphics artists and is an author of Open-DIS, which is an implementation of the Distributed Interactive Simulation network protocol. Mr. Grant’s current technical interests are in motion synthesis and computer vision.

Selected Bibliography

G. D. Park, J. K. Grant, and R. W. Allen, “A Simulator for Driver License Assessment,” presented at Image 2010, Scottsdale, Arizona, July 2010. (STI-P-743)

R. W. Allen, W. S. Joe, G. D. Park, and J. K. Grant, “The Development of a Low Cost Driver Licensing Simulator,” presented at Driving Simulation Conference DSC 2010 Europe, Paris, France,  2010. (STI-P-754)

R. W. Allen, J. K. Grant, and T. J. Rosenthal, “Performance Benchmarks for a Driving Simulator Graphics Renderer,” presented at Image 2009 Conference, St. Louis, MO, 13-16 July 2009. (STI-P-728)

J. R. Hogue, C. A. Pelz, N. S. Brickman, C.-Y. Liang, Ph.D., J. K. Grant, E. N. Bachelder, Ph.D., and R. D. Gates, “Visual and Instructional Enhanced Ejection and Bailout Virtual Reality Parachute Simulation Training,” presented at 46th Annual SAFE Symposium Reno, NV, October 27-29 2008. (STI-P-716)

D. Brutzman, J. K. Grant, and D. McGregor, “Open-DIS: An Open Source Implementation of the DIS Protocol for C++ and Java,” presented at 2008 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Orlando, FL, 15-19 September 2008. (STI-P-714)

R. W. Allen, J. K. Grant, and T. J. Rosenthal, “A Graphics Renderer to Meet Driving Simulation Requirements,” presented at Image 2008 Conference and Exhibition, St. Louis, MO, 16-19 June 2008. (STI-P-730)