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Microfacet Importance Sampling: For Dummies

Microfacet Importance Sampling: For Dummies

Despite how important of a topic good importance sampling is in the area of global illumination, it's usually left out of all common-English...

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Mathematics of Origami: Flat folding

Mathematics of Origami: Flat folding

So. Back at this. First things first. You can safely disregard most everything I said last post. All of that was very observation-based, and is...

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Origami and the associated maths

Origami and the associated maths

'ey..So this is going to be another one of those write-it-out-so-that-I-can-better-understand-it sort of things. Just a heads up. This IS a journal,...

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Fluid Dynamics update

Fluid Dynamics update

Oioioioioioioioioioioioi.I'm not really going to talk about much math-y stuff this time. I've covered too much ground since my last entry ( ) to be...

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Fluid Dynamics: Advection

Fluid Dynamics: Advection

Heyy all!.First off, congrats to all the WoA participants. I didn't have the time to do it this year, but I'll try again for it the next go around...

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Trying my hand at fluid simulation

Trying my hand at fluid simulation

Aight, let's roll..So fluid simulation is one of those things I've been meaning to get around to for a long time now. I've made simple particle...

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Failures in GI-land

Failures in GI-land

Hello all! It's been quite a while.So I've been working on life/jobs/family/etc the past couple months. A couple weeks ago, however, I decided to...

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Down with the FastCall22 reign!

Down with the FastCall22 reign!

So FastCall22 has figured out how to kick himself in the gdchat. Well, he hath prowess over us no more!Here's how to go about it:Step 1:Pull up the...

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Small update with spaceships

Small update with spaceships

Well, I didn't get much done this week, admittedly.I really dislike this part of the school semester. I'm not that used to the whole college thing...

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Planetary Biomes

Planetary Biomes

Oi there once more!Not many images or videos this time around, unfortunately. It's mostly about updates about what I'm up to and what I'm working...

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CulDeVu vs game development

CulDeVu vs game development

Oi thar e'rybody!So, I'm really bad at making video games.I really like making prototypes and exploring new and cool mechanics.These things don't go...

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End of Spring Break update

End of Spring Break update

'eyyyy!So indiedb is an interesting place, and it has a really weird ranking system. I went from rank 1778/24950 to 4911/24950 in about 24 hours,...

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Half-week Update

Half-week Update

Greetings, all!Spring break! Woo-hoo!That means that I'm using the time that I should be spending catching up on my school-work instead working on...

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Moving slowly

Moving slowly

Hola and all that jazz.So I've decided that I'm officially friendzoning OpenGL.I really want to like OpenGL. I really do. However, after everything...

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Playing with new content generation

Playing with new content generation

Hey all!So I've been working on fixing an annoying little bug in the physics engine that sometimes makes you get stuck on corners. The fix is kinda...

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Switcheroo to Vector graphics

Switcheroo to Vector graphics

Greetings!First off, let me just say something about SVG files. In many ways, it's a fantastic format, especially in the way that its designed to be...

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Getting a little pushy

Getting a little pushy

??????????!My art studio class has been kicking my ass with deadlines, so I haven't had much time to do development stuff this week. I've been trying...

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CulDeVu vs Photon Mapping

CulDeVu vs Photon Mapping

Heyy all!Sorry for not posting for a couple weeks, but it's the beginning of the semester again, and somebody's got to represent the freshman class...

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Updates on top of updates

Updates on top of updates

'Ello there!Just kidding. Not really that many updates. Just a few minor things, honestly, while I'm working on getting the first piece of artwork...

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