Random link of interest

[Jason 134]

Benchmarking Ray Tracing for Realistic Light Transport Algorithms

For those interested in low-level raytracing performance, a comparison of acceleration structures.

http://bwfirt.sourceforge.net/

[Andz 8]

Wow, I remember some of those scenes from Radiance gallery.

[DaJuice 48]

Good idea.

http://ompf.org/forum/index.php

Folks brewing their own raytracers. Most of it is over my head but I still find it interesting.

[Macha 117]

Cool stuff here:

http://physbam.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/

And this is looks pretty cool as well. That's what we need!

http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~reinhard/papers/i3d_2009.pdf

Edited March 25, 2010 by Macha

[Andz 8]

How Blizzard created the new Cataclysm intro

There is a behind the scenes where you can see a few glimpses of Houdini being used in particles and fractures simulations.

LINK CG Channel

[Rudinie 7]

I stumbled upon: http://www.vimeo.com/19819283 just a couple of minutes ago and i think it is interesting to see the behaviour of water filmed with such a high framerate. This might come in handy as a reference one day.

Just wanted to share it with you guys.

[Marc 270]

I shall merge this into the random link of interest thread!

Edited February 14, 2011 by Marc
done!

[Marc 270]

This may be old and I may be late to the party, but this is really interesting and I'm putting it here for safekeeping:

http://www.jupiter-jazz.com/visual-effects/surfs-up

[Andz 8]

HEREAFTER Featurette: Visual Effects Shot Breakdowns

Lots of water sims.

http://vimeo.com/19959832

[Guest xionmark]

Another really great fluid developer/researcher, Mark Carlson:

http://tinyurl.com/4bxdqv3

Fun with math ...

[Macha 117]

Mix vectors, planes and volumes, elements from any dimension! Find intersections, perform geometric miracles!

...[generating not only a]... linear and multilinear algebra, but also vector and tensor algebra, screw algebra, the complex numbers, quaternions, octonions, Clifford algebra, and Pauli and Dirac algebra.

[...]

Here then is a geometric calculus par excellence. We hope you enjoy exploring it.

Wait no longer, forget the old vector algebra, use Grassmann algebra!*

http://sites.google.com/site/grassmannalgebra/thegrassmannalgebrabook

*at your own peril

Edited February 21, 2011 by Macha

[kumpa 2]

http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/#sketchy

amazing thingy for sketching

[Andz 8]

A WebGL based web application for rendering 2D and 3D fractals in real-time.

http://www.subblue.com/blog/2011/3/5/fractal_lab

I don't know the prerequisites, but it worked great here with Ubuntu + Chrome + gForce 9800.

[Andz 8]

Tron Legacy software art

http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

Highly geeky content. Houdini is mentioned on the process.

[edward 350]

Damn, it's slashdotted.

[Matt_K 32]

Thanks for that link Andz!

Really nice stuff.

Matt.

[rdg 15]

"Today i’m going to talk about a continuous collision detection technique called Speculative Contacts which has been employed in games such as Little Big Planet PS3 and PSP versions."

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/03/25/speculative-contacts-an-continuous-collision-engine-approach-part-1/

[Jason 134]

http://www.fractal.io

A WebGL based web application for rendering 2D and 3D fractals in real-time.

http://www.subblue.com/blog/2011/3/5/fractal_lab

I don't know the prerequisites, but it worked great here with Ubuntu + Chrome + gForce 9800.

[Jason 134]

"Today i’m going to talk about a continuous collision detection technique called Speculative Contacts which has been employed in games such as Little Big Planet PS3 and PSP versions."

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/03/25/speculative-contacts-an-continuous-collision-engine-approach-part-1/

Nice one, thanks!

[Andz 8]

Why use a external renderer? Why use Mantra? If you can do pathtracing inside Houdini's viewport...

http://vimeo.com/21436831

http://vimeo.com/22438117