Lonny Buinis
A Compact Biography
- Employment
- Raritan Valley Community College www.raritanval.edu,
North Branch, NJ
- Instructional Designer, Office of Instructional Technology, 15 years
- Assistant Director of Planetarium, 5 years
- Trailside Nature and Science Center, Mountainside, NJ
Director of Planetarium, 7 years
- Education
- Formal: Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
- M.S. Computer Science, 1976
- B.S. Physics, 1974
- Informal:
- mathematics of astronomical illustration
- astronomical illustration and painting
- sculpting
- computer graphics
- computer 3-D modeling and 3-D animation
- Hobbies:
- walking, running, bicycling
- clarinet, tenor saxophone
- spelunking
- health
- writing
- Space Artists who inspired me, in chronological order
- Chesley Bonestell
- David Hardy
- Don Dixon
- Ludek Pesek
- Don Davis
- Ron Miller
- Pamela Lee
- Smartest thing I ever did: married Jan Buinis 1999