About Nelson
Nelson Planting holds a BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, also studying physics and math. He previously worked at Google on Google Earth, Maps and StreetView, on 3d GIS information, specifically imagery access and transformation, texture blending, GPU acceleration for the launch of 3d buildings in Google Earth. He also holds a patent in deformable pneumatic optics (solar energy) and created raytracing and physics simulation software to develop this.
At RetiVue he has taken over development and optimization of the software including GPU/CUDA optimization, graphics, user interface, and contributed to the testing and further development of the optical systems.