Credits...Personal Bio's

IMAGINE Staff Members

• Rand Bohrer is a transplanted Yankee who has taken root in Atlanta. He is a Senior Research Associate in the IMAGINE group. He thinks alot about marketing.
• Tolek Lesniewski is a multimedia coordinator and head of the IMAGINE group in the College of Architecture, Georgia Tech. He teaches courses in computer modeling and animation and is responsible for the existence of the 3D Atlanta model used to create some of the QT and QTVR animations seen in this site. He has developed over the years a number of interacive systems, including CD-I systems.
  tolek.lesniewski@arch.gatech.edu
• Tim Purdy splits his time between the IMAGINE group and the Industrial Design Program. For the IMAGINE Group, he has helped develope and coordinate the 3-D models of the downtown Atlanta and Georgia Tech Campus. For the Industrial Design Program, he helps manage the Collaborative Product Development Laboratory, and he has developed and taught graduate courses in Alias Studio (a high-end modeling, rendering and animation program) and Rapid Prototyping. tim.purdy@arch.gatech.edu
• Joanie Turner works with the IMAGINE group through the Dean of the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. She served as Director, Art Director and WebMaster for this project. She is responsible for the production of the College's Alumni Newsletter and its placement on the World Wide Web. She will also soon be doing a complete redesign of the College of Architecture's Web site. joanie.turner@arch.gatech.edu
• Brian Wills is a Research Associate working for the Ph.D. Program in the College of Architecture and the Graphics, Visualization, Usability Center in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. A recent graduate of the Masters Program at the Georgia Tech College of Architecture and of IMAGINE group, he currently works on the development of the Virtual Gorilla Project.
  http://atlanta.arch.gatech.edu/personal/brian/brian.htm

IMAGINE Student Members

• Mark Armstrong
  http://atlanta.arch.gatech.edu/personal/mark/mark.htm
• Lance SimmonsLance Simmons is a student in Industrial Design at Georgia Tech and a member of the IMAGINE group. He created the photography based Quicktime VR's for this project. Past web projects include Course-Ware web sites for the History of Industrial Design and History of Art classes at Georgia Tech. Away from school and work, Lance enjoys brewing beer, playing guitar, camping, photography, computers, and most of all, visiting friends in Mexico.
  http://atlanta.arch.gatech.edu/personal/lance/lance.htm
• Ifiok Upkong

• Stacie Aversano
  http://atlanta.arch.gatech.edu/personal/stacie/page1.htm
• Amanda Marsh
  Amanda Marsh is a senior industrial design student at Georgia Tech. She wrote the html code for the structures and symbols sections of this project, as well as the code for part of the city section. She also did some of the photography.gtd469a@prism.gatech.edu
  http://atlanta.arch.gatech.edu/personal/amy/amy.htm
• Tony Chang
• Samia Rab is a Ph.D Candidate at the College of Architecture. She served as the Production Coordinator for this project and was responsible for the selection of structures, sites and venues, research & writing, photography, design & layout of Web pages. She is currently editing her Ph.D. dissertation, titled, "Conservation and Architecture: the differing interpretations of the monument in architecture and their influence on the conservation of built heritage." Since 1993, she has been teaching at the College of Architecture as one of the five Doctoral Teaching Fellows. Her area of research and teaching is History, Theory & Criticism, and her professional interests are in the field of architectural conservation. srab@arch.gatech.edu
  http://atlanta.arch.gatech.edu/personal/samia/samia.htm
• Lee Payne, FIDSA
  Partner, LPA, Industrial Design Consultants
  Associate Professor, Industrial Design, Georgia Institute of Technology

  Lee Payne's professional experience has been primarily product design and development and package design. Early in his career he was responsible for the design and invention of a number of new products and mechanisms employing thermoplastics, mostly in the toy and game field (Electric Football in particular). More recently his professional work has been in the area of microelectronics and consumer products. His consulting office was responsible for the design of the original enclosure for the Hayes Smartmodem and DCA's Irmaline enclosure. He has conducted product and package development programs for G.E. Appliances, Dow, IBM, Schlumberger Electricity, Smart Card and Retail Petroleum Divisions, Tupperware, Char-Broil, Klipsch Associates and Magic Chef as well as a number of small start-up companies and entrepreneurs. He has received over 20 patents for devices and products and his Neapolitan Table, designed for Formica Corporation, is in the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.

  Lee earned his B.S. in Industrial Design from the Univeristy of Cincinnati and his M.A. in Art History from Emory University. He served as a design supervisor at Walter Dorwin Teague Associates, New York and as Director of Product Development for Tudor Games, Inc., New York, before opening his own industrial design consulting office, Lee Payne Industrial Design in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1976, serving as Director of the Industrial Design Program for 12 years and establishing a consulting industrial design office in Atlanta. Professor Payne is currently teaching and managing a number of research and development projects at Georgia Tech, including the torch and caldron for the Olympic torch relays. He continues to serve the product and package design needs of a variety of clients. In 1988 Professor Payne was awarded a fellowship in the Industrial Designers Society of America.
  l.payne@arch.gatech.edu  (770)893-2595

Darlington Students

• Alex Boling, a rising senior at Darlington School. His favorite pastimes include listening to Jimi Hendrix, running scientific experiments on Twinkies, and yodelling. He is the editor-in-chief of the award winning school newspaper, The Darlingtonian. Alex also plays drums in the breakthrough band Calico Sally.
• Leighton O'Connor, a rising sophomore at Darlington School, currently is the Focus section editor for The Darlingtonian and enjoys both photography and graphic design. Leighton can often times be found at the baseball feild after school playing cricket with his friends or running his business,"Leighton's World Wide Web Design" with which he creates graphically oriented web pages for small business and real-estate firms.
• Greta Simmons, a soon to be senior at Darlington School, is the Editor-in-Chief of the school yearbook, the Jabberwokk. She enjoys running and traveling and playing darts. She spent much of her childhood in Mexico and her family is moving to Turkey soon. Her early experience with another culture has given Greta a love of the world and its languages. She is fluent in Spanish and hopes to increase her abilities by living abroad. She plans to attend Dartmouth upon graduation from Darlington and to offer the world a firm handshake and a hearty hello. Greta also appears numerous times in certain QTVRs, see if you can find her.
  http://atlanta.arch.gatech.edu/personal/greta/greta.htm
• Gabe Tharp, a rising senior at Darlingotn School, is the Editor-in-Chief of The Inkslinger, the school's literary magazine. Living most of his life in Colorado, he is a westerner at heart. He enjoys graphic arts, poetry, some good homemade yogurt. He has many good qualities, its too bad he is not here to write this for himself.