I have included a gratuitous image, which I created for the official 1993 university Christmas card. Craig MacNaughton generated the christmas tree with fairly lights and modelled the clock and and Faye Maxwell painted on the fire afterwards.
I have a long standing interest in Image Synthesis, especially ray tracing. I wrote a couple of ray tracers, back in the late 80s including a shared-memory multiprocessing trace. Eventually I moved a lot of my stuff into the PD tracer RayShade (Kolb, Bogart). Other members of the ACGC, including staffer Craig MacNaughton and student Kendall Bennett added yet more stuff to rayshade, making it our in-house research platform.
I have an interest in shading models, but primarily my ray tracing interest is spatial data structures and algorithms for faster ray/scene intersection. I developed a new acceleration technique called NUgrids and eventually improved this to ANUgrids.
I have included a gratuitous image, which I created for the official
1993 university Christmas card. Craig MacNaughton generated the christmas
tree with fairly lights and modelled the clock and and Faye Maxwell
painted on the fire afterwards.
I have also had an interest in radiosity and geometric solutions to form-factor computations. One day I'll write this stuff up. ACGC visitor Rod Bogart and I brainstormed about this some, and Rod wrote some code to try out the idea. I know what to do to do it right, we made some progress (thanks to Alan Dorin) but there is more to do.