I’ve spent countless hours and a considerable about of energy on getting my ray tracer up and running, and this is what I have achieved: While it may look like modern art[ref]Actually, since art exists independent of intent and as a result of a observer-entity interaction, this picture would be “art”. Whether it is modern […]
Category: Computer Science
Learning R
One aspect of graduate level work that most people  are unaware of, yet every graduate student knows, is the tedium of making “publication” quality charts and displays. Figuring out a decent method to show off your data in an elegant figure is essential if you would like your work respected. True, you can always fire […]
Paper of Note: Fast, Minimum Storage Ray-Triangle Intersection
Introduction Raytracing is modern computer graphics technique used to render life-like images for videos and animations. While it’s a relatively modern technique–coinciding with the birth of digital modeling–the inspiration for the methods can be traced back to ancient Greece. While some Greeks truly believed that our eye’s emit the ability to see and not that our […]