Description: Eike Ziller - About
I was born in the mid 70′s in Berlin, Germany. Already at the beginning of middle school I grew very much interested in computers and programing, writing little games in BASIC on the VIC20 (an, even then, very old computer - I had fun anyway). The internship we had to do in 9th grade, I did in a physical research facility called Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt , where I wrote an ATARI pascal program for measuring the quality of a laser over a long active period. That was my first really useful program
After school I investigated several possibilities and decided to study mathematics, a very good choice by the way. I concentrated on differential geometry and mathematical visualization, and was part of a team that created a program for mathematical visualization called JavaView , while I was a student. Finally I received my diploma (Dipl. math. techn.). My diploma thesis was about analyzing vector fields with a discrete version of Hodge-Helmholtz-Decomposition.
I stayed at university as a research assistant for two years, first at the Zuse-Institute Berlin , then at FU Berlin , working in cooperation with Tebis AG on curvature based modeling and design of curves and surfaces. I realized that I didn’t want to stay at university, though, so I looked for a different future.