WHAT IS PIXELIBRIS?

Pixelibris is a web repository of presentations, visualizations and other learning resources we create in our professional and spare time. We are designing and programming real-time, interactive, “rich media” experiences and applications that help explain amazing concepts in astronomy, mathematics, statistics and computer graphics.

We also want to improve and expand upon all those projects and make them available across many platforms. Our long term mission is to make Pixelibris a place for collaboration and knowledge sharing.

PIXEL

[pik-suh l, -sel]

noun, Computers, Television.

the smallest element of an image in a video display system.

LIBER

noun

liber, libri

book, volume

WHO ARE WE?

TIBOR KOZJAK

Tibor is a computer graphics designer and programmer with more than ten years of experience in the field of visual arts and communications. While working as a graphic designer, illustrator, concept artist, web designer, animator and architectural visualization designer, Tibor has mastered several digital content creation tools and programming languages that are the industry standards. Most recently, his work has concentrated on the design and programming of high-end interactive multimedia presentations and applications as well on the design of user interfaces and user experiences (UI and UX).

tibor.kozjak@gmail.com

DEJAN VINKOVIĆ

After receiving his PhD in physics from the University of Kentucky, Dejan moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton where he worked for four years. After that he became a professor at the Physics Department at the University of Split, Croatia. He is also a founding director of Science and Society Synergy Institute, a private non-profit research institute. Dejan is actively involved in various research activities in astrophysics and astronomy, biology, sociology and computer science. His research results have been published in some of the top science journals. Dejan is also very active in science outreach and education.

dejan@iszd.hr

HOW WE DO IT?

Some of our presentations are made in Ventuz. Ventuz is a a real-time graphics content creation, authoring and playout control software. We chose Ventuz because of it’s ease of use, versatility and scalability. You can download Ventuz from it’s official web pages. Personal learning edition is complitely free and comes with full functionality of a commercial version.

As many of our assets are platform and software independent, we will port our projects into various other software solutions and environments – like Unreal Engine and WebGL.