Dr. Michael J. Gourlay

Dr. Michael J. Gourlay works as a Senior Software Engineer at Electronic Arts. He currently works as a lead software engineer on Madden NFL 2011. He previously worked on the procedural animation system used by EA, and on the upcoming title, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He was also a lead programmer on NASCAR. He architected the visual effects system used in EA games worldwide and patented algorithms for interactive, high-bandwidth online applications. He previously taught at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA), an interdisciplinary graduate program that teaches programmers, producers and artists how to make video games and training simulations. Prior to joining EA, he performed scientific research using computational fluid dynamics and the world's largest massively parallel supercomputers. His previous research also includes nonlinear dynamics in quantum mechanical systems, and atomic, molecular and optical physics. Michael received his degrees in physics and philosophy from Georgia Tech and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Interactive simulation of fluid-like continuous media.

• 2010 January 21:
  • Fluid Simulation for Video games: part 6 - Differential Velocity Solvers
• 2009 December 7:
  • Fluid Simulation for Video games: part 5 - Profiling and Optimization
• 2009 October 28:
  • Fluid Simulation for Video games: part 4 - Two-way Fluid-body Interaction
• 2009 October 28:
  • Fluid Simulation for Video games on Gamasutra. Part 2
• 2009 October 15:
  • Fluid Simulation for Video games on Gamasutra. Part 1
• 2009 October 2:
  • Fluid Simulation for Video games: part 3 - Vortex Particle Fluid Simulation
• 2009 July 21:
  • Fluid Simulation for Video games: part 2 - Fluid Simulation Techniques
• 2009 July 21:
  • Fluid videos: Atomic vortex ring. Ballistic mayhem. Galaxy of Dots.
• 2009 July 7:
  • Fluid Simulation for Video games: part 1 - Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
• 2009 July 6:
  • Game Engine Configuration Language: Part 5: Means of Abstraction
• 2009 May 15:
  • Kotaku reports on a game my students made to exercise their game engine, a work in progress.
• 2009 April 15:
  • Game Engine Configuration Language: Part 3: Binding, revisited
• 2009 Feb 2:
  • Game Engine as Operating System: Part 2: Actor Model of Concurrency
• 2009 Jan 20:
  • Fluid Video. Click on this link, or choose "HQ" in the menu bar below, to see a higher quality version.
• 2009 Jan 5:
  • Game Engine Configuration Languages: Part 1: Introduction
• 2008 Dec 1:
  • Game Engine as Operating System: Part 1: Game loop versus kernel
• 2008 Nov 3:
  • Prototype-based programming language with fast dynamic binding
• 2008 September 9:
  • Event system filter mechanism refinement
• 2008 Aug 11:
  • Citation in International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 posters.
  • My poster at SIGgraph 2008. See A104, near the top.
  • Poster materials