Michael J. Aramini M.Aramini@Verizon.net

Background:

• Received my B.S. degree in Computer Science, with minors in Physics and Chemistry, from Stevens Institute of Technology.
• Received my M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois.
• Currently contracting as an External - Member of Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
• Have also worked for Bell Labs, Matrix Instruments, Apollo Computer, HP, Agilent, NuGenesis, Veridian, and General Dynamics.

• Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
• New Hampshire Astronomical Society
• International Dark-Sky Association

• Eclipse images:
  • August 11, 1999 total solar eclipse (low resolution images, 691 kb)
  • August 11, 1999 total solar eclipse (high resolution images, 5.6 Mb)
  • December 25, 2000 partial solar eclipse (389 kb)
  • May 10, 1994 annular solar eclipse
• 2001 Leonid meteor shower images:
  • Leonid3.jpg (122 kb)
  • Leonid4.jpg (104 kb)
• Image of ATMoB members at Stellafane 2002 (72 kb)
• Ellipse Fitting

Books:

• Books I've read during the past few years

Computer graphics:

• Implementation of an Improved Contour Plotting Algorithm (master's thesis, 139 kb)
  • Click here for Francisco Frutos Alfaro's C translation of the contour plotting FORTRAN source code given in Appendix A in my master's thesis.
  • The contour plotting C source code given in Appendix B in my master's thesis has portability problems and is memory inefficient. Click here for a revised version of the code which is more portable and uses less memory.

Image processing:

• Efficient Image Magnification by Bicubic Spline Interpolation
  • Click here for a fragment of C source code which illustrates my image magnification algorithm.
  • Click here for a fragment of C source code which illustrates a variant of my image magnification algorithm that supports different horizontal and vertical magnification factors.
  • Click here for Changjun Chen's Fortran 90 implementation of my image magnification algorithm.
  • Click here for Jeremy Smith's LISP implementation of my image magnification algorithm.
  • For more information about high-resolution bicubic spline interpolation, see

    J. A. Parker, R. V. Kenyon, and D. E. Troxel, ``Comparison of Interpolating Methods for Image Resampling,´´ IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. MI-2, no. 1, March 1983, pp. 31-39.