Don Herbison-Evans has previously been :
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry,
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society,
- Fellow of the Australian Computer Society,
- Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers,
- Senior Research Fellow, Satellite Communications Group,
Signals Research and Development Establishment, Hampshire,
- Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Astronomy Department
of the
School of Physics in the University of Sydney,
- Senior Lecturer in the
School of Computer Science
in the University of Sydney,
- Visiting Professor in the
School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
- Honorary Associate at the
Macleay Museum, University of Sydney,
- Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Health and Sciences at
Central Queensland University, in
Bundaberg,
- Member of the Advisory Panel of the
Bachelor in Dance Education degree at the
Australian College for Physical Education,
- Honorary Associate in the
Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney,
-
Dance Host on the Queen Mary 2,
- Assistant Dancesport Coach at the
Byrnes Dance Image studio
in Granville, Sydney.
See:-
A Curriculum Vitae
An Autobiography
Currently he is :
He is the author of the
NUDES
computer animation system.
He has recently been co-lecturing
Introduction to Computer Graphics
at the University of Technology Sydney.
Some of his movies can be accessed on
YouTube.
His 91
publications
and
technical reports
to date range over:
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Microwave Antenna Design
Numerical Analysis
Computer Graphics
Computer Animation
Dance, and
Dance Notation
His on-line webpages include:
COMPUTING
A program that prints itself
Solving Quartic and Cubic Equations
Animated Cartoons by Computers Using Ellipsoids
Rapid Raster Ellipsoid Shading
The NUDES animation System
4D Computer Output
The Perspective Transformation
Why do we sleep?
Consciousness
DANCE
Dance and the Computer
Computer Animation of the Merrilyn
Robots and Dancing
Objectifying Information About Dance
Digital Duet
A Dancer Among Us
LED & LINTEL: A Windows Labanotation Editor and Interpreter
Revised Grammar for the Foxtrot
A Ballet Animation Language
Symmetry and Dance
Symmetry in Ballroom Dancing
Perception of the Fleeting Moment in Dance
Gender & Choreography: An Irrational Tango
History of Modern Ballroom Dancing
History of Latin & American Dancing
Scottish Country Dancing
Noh Dancing
English Old Time Dancing
Exhibition Dancing
Ballroom Dance Studios Sydney
Ballroom Dance Studios NSW and ACT
Ballroom Dancing in Sydney
Australian Dance Links
Australian New Vogue Dancing on the Web
Dancing in the Olympics 2000 Closing Ceremony
Dinosaurs Dancing in the Country
Australia vs New Zealand Showcase
Vale: Brian Cumming
Music for Dancing,
Waltzing on a KDF9,
The Australian Dance Heritage
Meaning in the 'Twilight Waltz',
Meaning in the New Vogue Tangos,
Holds in the computer animation of New Vogue Dances,
Dancing Backwards in High Heels and Other Problems in Animation
The Intelligent Body
Dancing is not normal
Some Theory of Ballroom Dancing
The Souls of the Dances
Dancing away Dementia
Lady Whispering.
A Step.
Quality of Movement.
Widdershins.
OTHER OBSESSIONS
Avoiding Sleep Apnea
Comforting Thoughts
A Father's Lament
The Interferometer
Caterpillars of Australian Moths and Butterflies
Why Can't I Slow Down
Some Big Australian Roadside Attractions,
Global Warming
COSMOLOGY
Gravitation in the Hydrogen Atom
Gravitational Atoms
Measuring Pi
Weighing Electrons
A Matter of Gravity
The Origin of Mass
Negative Mass
Photon Decay
The Universe and the Human Mind
God or Machine?
His other interests include:
various forms of Dancing
keeping fresh and salt water native
Australian aquaria
UFO's,
Flowers
Birds
His abiding academic obsession
has been the design and study of languages for
the description and prescription of human movement.
Deciding that dancers have
been designing sytems for communicating human movement for centuries,
he has been learning and studying
many forms of dance :
Ballroom Dancing
(Masters II Level 4, 25 years, many teachers, latterly
Paul Cruddas, Sydney)
Latin & American Dancing
(Masters II Level 4, 25 years, many teachers, currently
Neale & Nicole Byrnes, Sydney)
New Vogue Dancing
(Masters II Level 4, 23 years, many teachers, latterly
Leigh Steele, Sydney)
Classical Ballet
(7 years, many teachers, latterly
Ann Butt-D'Hau, Sydney)
Contemporary Modern Dance
(5 years, many teachers, latterly
Ann Butt-D'Hau, Sydney)
Jazz Dancing
(5 years, many teachers, most recently Savva Emanon, Sydney)
Contact Improvisation
(5 years, many teachers, most recently Pru Jones, Sydney)
Tap (5 years, many teachers, most recently Peggy Watson, Sydney)
Clogging (1 year, with Sonya Volzke, Bundaberg)
Exhibition Dancing (6 years, with George Czender, Sydney)
Folk Dancing (1 year, Kitchener-Waterloo Folk Dance Club)
Sacred Dance (6 months, with
Nina De Shane, Toronto)
Argentine Tango (4 months, with
Neville Boyd, Sydney)
Scottish Country Dancing (3 months, with Olivia Roberts, Sydney)
Square Dancing (3 months, with Shirley Kelly, Bundaberg)
Renaissance Dance
(3 months, with Waterloo University Renaissance Dancers)
Break Dance (3 months, Newport Community Centre, Sydney)
Line Dancing (10 classes, Kay Longhurst, Brisbane)
English Old Time Dancing
(Adult D Grade, 2 lessons, Brad Cherrie, Patrick Sweeney, Sydney)
Round Dancing (3 classes with Shirley Kelly, Bundaberg)
also
Labanotation (3 years,
Rhonda Ryman,
Ronne Arnold and
Drid Williams)
Benesh Dance Notation (18 months, Rhonda Ryman, Waterloo)
using
(updated 19 March 2023)
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