Nat Bletter's Home Page

I have left SRI and virtual reality/computer graphics work to become an ethnobotanist. You can read about that work on my new web page.

I used to work at SRI International in the Virtual Perception Group and the Perception Group of the Artificial Intelligence Center. Some of the projects I worked on are listed below.

Window on a World (a wireless hand held display)

SHAVE Multi-user system

ETRI Collaborative Workspace

ONR Perceptual Study

“A Technique for Quantitative Comparison of Medicinal Plants for Different Diseases from Different Cultures”, research talk presented at the Society of Economic Botany/ Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge Summit Meeting, June, 2001, Honolulu, Hawai'i.
“Cross-cultural Urban Medical Ethnobotany,” talk and paper presented at the Society of Economic Botany 2000 conference.
"Edible, Medicinal, and Useful Plants of Northern California," lecture given to the California Rare Fruit Growers Association, May 15, 1999.
Reddy, Martin, Nathaniel Bletter, Lee Iverson, and Yvan Leclerc, “TerraVision II: Visualizing Massive Terrain Databases in VRML”, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 19(2): 30-38, March/April 1999.
Y. Leclerc, M. Reddy, L. Iverson, N. Bletter (1999). "Digital Earth: Building the New World", presented at the 5th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM'99). 1-3 September. Dundee, Scotland.
M. Reddy, Y. G. Leclerc, L. Iverson, N. Bletter, and K. Vidimce (1998). "Modeling the Digital Earth in VRML". AIC Technical Report No. 559. SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. 9 November 1998.
Bletter, Nathaniel, "Virtual Reality: Virtues and Vices," Design Quarterly, Spring 1993.
Bletter, Nathaniel, "Virtual Reality Applications," Proceedings of Fall 1993 VR Systems Conference, 1993.

Unroll my face.

I play guitar in a band called Earplug Boy. And there's rumors about this other band, The Aquamen...

Grow orchids.

Windsurfing in the SF Bay.

I created this Swirly screen saver for Silicon Graphics