Category Archives: Coding

Light Propagation Volumes

Posted on July 18, 2010 by BlackHC

I’ve finally finished my lab course last week – thanks to my supervisor Matthäus G. Chajdas – you can read his blog here -, it wasn’t your usual lab course with work sheets and boring homework, instead I’ve been allowed … Continue reading →

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Panorama Stitching

Posted on July 17, 2010 by BlackHC

I’ve finally come around to “clean-up” some old project I’ve had lying around for a few months and upload it. I’m talking about some Panorama Stitching code I wrote for our participation in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup. I’m suppressing all memories … Continue reading →

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Rotation of Low Order Spherical Harmonics

Posted on June 20, 2010 by BlackHC

I’m currently working at university on implementing Light Propagation Volumes. The paper makes extensive use of spherical harmonics while the implementation uses the first two bands. Below is a visualization of the first 4 bands of the SH basis functions … Continue reading →

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Extracting Information from StudiVZ

Posted on October 19, 2009 by BlackHC

Some time ago somebody stole 1 million data records from StudiVZ, the German Facebook clone. I’m not exactly sure why people call the person a hacker who stole data, because it appears he simply wrote a tool that harvested the … Continue reading →

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Sploidz Revisited (Unofficially)

Posted on August 23, 2009 by BlackHC

I’ve already written about the semi-conductor project and how I’ve written some Flash animations/applications for it. Of course, I’m more interested in making fun stuff´, so I decided to put my knowledge to good use and write a small game … Continue reading →

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PowerPointLaTeX Update

Posted on August 5, 2009 by BlackHC

Because people complained to me about the formula feature in my PowerPointLaTeX add-in, which used a somewhat experimental approach to editing formula objects by adding an editing text shape that contained the formula code and that would be merged back … Continue reading →

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Semi-Conductor Optimization (Uni Project)

Posted on August 2, 2009 by BlackHC

I’ve written my last exam yesterday (except for two oral exams in September), so now I have got some spare time before I start working on my Bachelor Thesis tomorrow and I want to use it to wrap up a … Continue reading →

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From Vertex Positions to Packed Element Arrays

Posted on July 18, 2009 by BlackHC

At my new workplace at university I’m currently porting an advanced terrain rendering engine from DirectX to OpenGL. One of the performance optimizations the engine uses is that it draws the terrain tiles right from the index buffer without using … Continue reading →

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Extending Java and Javac

Posted on June 21, 2009 by BlackHC

Today I want to write about something I’ve been working ages ago – specifically in March I wanted to see if I can extend a Java compiler to support LINQ´ expressions, too. I probably spend more time on finding a … Continue reading →

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PowerPoint Tools

Posted on April 3, 2009 by BlackHC

I’ve finally managed to upload a version of my PowerPoint LaTeX add-in for PowerPoint 2007. I’m just going to post a short Vimeo video here that shows how inline formulas work (the main feature): I’ve tried to work on the … Continue reading →

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