Stuff from the past



Running Robot (computer game, undergraduate course)


In 2004 we implemented a small 3D shooter as part of a undergraduate course at University of Tübingen. Together with Artur Koch and Gerd Wolf.

GPU-Accelerated Hardware Synthesis (seminar work)


My seminar thesis from 2005. Basically, we generate fractal geometry using a viewpoint dependent, multi-resolution refinenment approach on the GPU.



Running Robot

video (12MB)
I definitely enjoyed this project. We build a portal engine using a concept similar to binary space partition used in quake. Some features of the engine are:





















GPU-Accelerated Hardware Synthesis (seminar work)

I3D 2006 paper video (24MB)
abstract
In this paper, we propose a new technique for hardware accelerated multi-resolution geometry synthesis. The level of detail for a given viewpoint is created on-the-fly, allowing for an almost unlimited model resolution in rendering without excessive memory usage. The models consist of regularly sampled rectangular patches that are subdivided hierarchically by a programmable shader in order to create different levels of resolution. The approach is inherently parallel and lends itself to an implementation on vector processor-like parallel architectures. We demonstrate this property by an implementation on programmable graphics hardware. This implementation shows a substantial performance benefit over a CPU-based implementation by up to more than an order of magnitude. We apply the framework to rendering of smooth surfaces and to rendering of complexly structured fractal landscapes using a novel multi-channel fractal subdivision technique. Due to the hardware acceleration, it is possible to perform interactive editing and walkthroughs of such scenes in real-time.
some results