Rendering / 2007–2011
Rendering-engine work, shader experiments, ray tracing, and early OpenGL projects.
04 entriesA post-processing engine developed for DigiPen’s Computer Imaging class. Fourteen effects could be combined through an image stack and applied to a rendered Avalanche scene.
As a graduate student, I coded and organized the engine, developed several of the effects, and guided seven undergraduate students as they implemented their assigned effects.
01 / 01An implementation of animated smoke particles with outlines and cel shading, adapted to render a stylized snowy avalanche using only three polygons per particle.
The presentation and implementation were based on research by Morgan McGuire and Andi Fein.
The renderer avoids depth-buffer readback latency, and the demonstration switches the avalanche texture while it runs.
01 / 01A ray-tracing algorithm that renders 3D images from text-file scene descriptions.
01 / 03A from-scratch OpenGL implementation of Breakout with falling items that modify the paddle, balls, and other gameplay properties.
This was my first Computer Graphics course project and was designed to teach pure OpenGL from scratch. The falling bonuses can enlarge the paddle, create multiple balls, increase the ball radius, and trigger other gameplay changes.
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