Archive for August, 2008
Next week the Google Summer of Code 2008 will be conclusively over. I will sum up my thoughts on this wonderful experience in a future post, adding some suggestions for prospective applicants as well. Here, instead, I would like to detail my plans for the future of this project. Development — Development will continue, but necessarily at [ READ MORE ]
This week I have been busy completing the indirect lighting part of my project, but this turned out to be harder than expected. The problem was not particularly the algorithm itself, as I’m currently implementing a naive variant. As a reader pointed out, the state of the art in instant radiosity is currently Metropolis Instant [ READ MORE ]
This week I’ve been busy with something rather unexciting: speeding up the light tree creation time. You might remember that, initially, I just implemented a O(n²) method in order to have a working prototype quickly; now I lowered that to O(nlogn) following advice from Miroslav Mikšík. It is now possible to have several tens of thousands [ READ MORE ]