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{{Short description|Research laboratory at the University of Toronto}}

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| motto = The enhancement of human creativity through advances in human-computer interaction, user interface design, and interactive computer graphics.<ref>http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=109006 The University of Toronto Dynamic Graphics Project, Baecker et al. 1991</ref>

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| established = {{Start date and age|1967}} <ref>[http://hciweb.cs.toronto.edu/DGPis40/index.html "DGP is 40" - Reunion website]</ref>

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| operating_agency = [[University of Toronto]]

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| website = [http://www.dgp.toronto.edu www.dgp.toronto.edu]

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The '''Dynamic Graphics Project''' (commonly referred to as '''DGPdgp''') is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the [[University of Toronto]] devoted to projects involving [[Computer Graphics]], [[Computer Vision]], and [[Human Computer Interaction]], and [[Interactive visualization|Visualization]]. The lab began as the computer graphics research group of [[Computer Science|Computer Science]] Professor {{ill|Leslie Mezei|fr}} in 1967 .<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hciweb.cs.toronto.edu/DGPis40/speakers_session5.html|title = Dgpis40}}</ref>. Mezei invited [[Bill Buxton]], a pioneer of [[human-computer interaction|human–computer interaction]] to join. In 1972, [[Ronald Baecker]], another [[human-computer interaction|HCI]] pioneer joined DGPdgp, establishing DGPdgp as the first Canadian university group focused on computer graphics and human-computer interaction.<ref>http://graphicsinterface.org/wp-content/uploads/gi2005-frontmatter.pdf Ron Baecker CHCCS 2005 Achievement Award</ref> According to csrankings.org, for the combined subfields of [[computer graphics]], [[Human–computer interaction|HCI]], and [[Interactive visualization|visualization]] the dgp is the number one research institution in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://csrankings.org/#/index?graph&chi&visualization&world|title = CSRankings|year = 2020|last1 = Berger|first1 = Emery D.}}</ref>

Since then, DGPdgp has hosted many well known faculty and students in computer graphics, computer vision and HCI (e.g., [[Alain Fournier (academic)|Alain Fournier]], [[William Reeves (animator)| Bill Reeves]], [[Jos Stam]], [[Demetri Terzopoulos]], [[Marilyn Tremaine]]). DGPdgp also occasionally hosts [[artist in residence|artists in residence]] (e.g., [[Academy Award | Oscar]]-winner [[Chris Landreth]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/oscar-winning-animator-and-filmmaker-chris-landreth-u-t-computer-science|title = Oscar-winning animator and filmmaker Chris Landreth at U of T computer science}}</ref>). Many past and current researchers at [[Autodesk]] (and before that [[Alias Systems Corporation | Alias Wavefront]]) graduated after working at DGPdgp.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hciweb.cs.toronto.edu/DGPis40/alumni.php?page=home|title=Dgpis40}}</ref>. DGPdgp is located in the St. George Campus of University of Toronto in the [[Bahen Centre for Information Technology]]. DGPdgp researchers regularly publish at [[ACM SIGGRAPH]], [[ACM SIGCHI]] and [[ICCV]].

==Notable Alumni==

* [[Bill Buxton]] (MS 1978)

* [[William Reeves (animator)| Bill Reeves]] (MS 1976, Ph.D. 1980)<ref>https://www.utoronto.ca/news/honorary-graduate-william-reeves</ref>

* [[Jos Stam]] (MS 1991, Ph.D. 1995)<ref>http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/reality/Research/pub.html</ref>

dgp hosts the Toronto User Experience (TUX) Speaker Series and the Sanders Series Lectures.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tux-hci.org/ |title=Home |website=tux-hci.org}}</ref>

==Notable Alumnialumni==

* [[Bill Buxton]] (MS 1978)

* [[JanusVR|James McCrae]] (PhD 2013)

* [[Dimitris Metaxas]] (PhD 1992)

* [[William Reeves (animator)| Bill Reeves]] (MS 1976, Ph.D. 1980)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/honorary-graduate-william-reeves|title = Honorary graduate William Reeves}}</ref>

* [[Jos Stam]] (MS 1991, Ph.D. 1995)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/reality/Research/pub.html|title = Jos Stam: Publications}}</ref>

==References==