UPDATE: The post below was a purely naive attempt at implementing a rudimentary bounding volume hierarchy. A much more efficient implementation using a kd tree is available in this post. We will continue with the project we left off with in this post. We will attempt to add triangles to our list of primitives. Once …
Month: March 2013
The purpose of this project was to create an internet-based rover using the combination of a cheap RC vehicle, an Arduino Uno with a Seeed Relay Shield, a Samsung Galaxy S3 in host mode, a workstation and PlayStation 3 controller. Our server software will run in the background on the S3 and visual feedback will …
This is a small extension to the previous post. We will add a depth of field simulation to our path tracer project. I ran across this algorithm at this site. Below is a render of our path tracer with the depth of field extension. Essentially, we will define the distance to the focal plane and …
The path tracer we will create in this project will run on CUDA-enabled GPUs. You will need to install the CUDA Toolkit available from NVIDIA. The device code for this project uses classes and must be compiled with compute capability 2.0. If you are unsure what compute capability your card has, check out this list. …