Category Archives: University

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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Rigid Body Motion

Posted on May 30, 2010 by BlackHC

Last week I had to give a presentation about Rigid Body Motion (ie the basics of rigid body physics and some general mechanics). Here are two versions of my presentatio (one with less text and one with more): Rigid Body … Continue reading →

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A quick note on quantifiers: For almost all and there exist infinitely many

Posted on March 27, 2010 by BlackHC

It’s been a while since my last post and now it’s time for a mathematical post: I’m currently preparing for a math exam (calculus) and I’m thinking it would be nice if there was a way to avoid much of … 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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My Bachelor Thesis

Posted on October 17, 2009 by BlackHC

For the last two months I have been working on my bachelor thesis at the Chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization. It is about “Multi-Tile Terrain Rendering with OGL/Equalizer”´. The chair has a very nice Direct3D 10 terrain rendering engine … 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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