Duiker Research Corporation produces innovations in imagery for the motion picture and television industry. Leveraging dedicated engineering and support out of its homebase in California, Duiker Research Corporation supports its customers with a range of unique plug-ins, shaders, and applications that streamline visual effects and animation creation.

Products include Color Symmetry, as well as an an expanding range of plug-ins, shaders and tools that support and streamline visual effects and animation creation. Color Symmetry and the drUtilSuite (”D. R. Util Suite”) for Fusion and mental ray come out of the founder and employees’ experience with the early development of Image-based Lighting, High Dynamic Range Imaging and production experience on various movies and games such as The Matrix Sequels and most recently Speed Racer

Haarm-Pieter Duiker founded the company following work as a technical developer on film projects such as “The Matrix” sequels, “The Fantastic Four,” and Speed Racer where his field experience spanned data capture, on-set photography, visual effects shot production and more. Tools he has created include solutions to challenges in rendering, lighting and film look emulation.

Duiker’s work has been patented and published, with papers and sketches featured at conferences such as SIGGRAPH. He has also been nominated for a Scientific and Technical Academy Award. Duiker holds a degree in Computer Science focusing on Computer Graphics from the University of California at Berkeley.