I knew this day would come, but I never would have guessed it would come so quickly. I guess the old saying is true. Time really flies when you’re having fun. That’s right folks. I’ve finished my ...

I find myself doing more and more Javascript development as the days go on, and while I do not consider myself an expert on the language, I do consider myself well versed enough to get things done ...

Given that we’re team more bloom, we figured it might be a good idea to show off our raytracer’s bloom functionality. Here’s an image with no bloom: Here’s the same image with awesome bloom: ...

As part of our course work in CG2, we were asked to do some work with Pixar’s Renderman software. We were given a set of basic shaders and were asked to modify them. Here are the results: As th...

We’ve completed the final checkpoint for our raytracer and we couldn’t be happier! First, please note that we have fixed the transmission problems that were evident before. Ward Tone Reproductio...

Working on transmission we had something which to us looked correct. However tonight we realized that it was only “correct” looking by a double fluke error in our code. In trying to fix the problem...

Our raytracer has been significantly expanded. First, we added reflection, which was cool… but everything looked like glass balls. Second, we added distributed rays for reflections which gave us wo...

Once again I find myself awake at 1:00am perusing my site access logs. Tonight I noticed something particularly interesting.. a decent number of people coming to my site visited the site in referen...

And yes, it has procedural texturing! Texturing mapping from a file is on the way, but who knows when it’ll be done… Obligatory photo!

Dear Dr. Phong, As Computer Science students wetting our feet in the realm of 3D ray-tracing, I can’t help but feel we’re standing on the shoulders of giants. You’ve provided us with this amazing ...