Screenshot of Utah

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 and they want to run it at the newly founded KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology´) in a massive CAVE environment. A CAVE is a room whose walls are actually screens.
The CAVE at KAUST even supports stereoscopic rendering. Thus in total 12 views can be rendered to.

My job was to port said terrain engine from Direct3D to OpenGL and afterwards to the Equalizer framework, which is an open-source framework for parallelizing OpenGL applications.

You can find/download an online version of my bachelor thesis here. I'll upload the LaTeX at a later date and update this post.

I've spent the last months writing about all this, so I don't feel like talking about the thesis itself anymore. Instead the remainder of this post will contain a post-mortem of it.
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