Very Detailed raytracer that contains pretty much everything that we did in the unit. The most impressive thing with this work is that the techniques used are not just straight forward implementations but actually done in quite different ways. This is a great example of thinking outside the box.

Beautiful composition in this image. Graphics is not just about throwing a load of math at an image but actually understanding what makes a visual difference and what does not. In this project it has been achieved to perfection.

This raytracer contains a lot of different techniques, the most important thing is the photon mapper and final gether which generates very stable results as can be seen below the glas dragon. Anti-Aliasing, Textures, Area Lights/Soft Shadows, Object Loader, Materials and scene management, Photon Mapping and Final Gather, Octree, Caustics, Image filters

It is not often you get goose-bumps marking coursework, this project by Michael and Michael gave me just this. I felt gulity giving this a mark of 100%! Click on the link below and be prepared to be amazed.

This raytracer contains a lot of techniques. It uses photon mapping for global illumination, soft-shadows, anti-aliasing etc. To make it all run in a sensible time lots of optimisations have been implemented, it uses KD-Trees for the geometry. The colour bleeding and other effects are really subtle and makes for a very balanced image, really like this one. Jamie will be teaching on the unit this year so make sure that you have a chat with him about his work.

This is a really speedy rasteriser where a lot of care have been taken to make sure that the memory access is done correctly. Further, the implementation of softshadows, is really high quality. Have a look at the video linked below to see it in full flow.

Very good raytracer including a lot of optimisations, it uses KD-trees to store the geometry, OpenCL and OpenMP to optimise computations. It also implements, glass, global illumination and mirrors among other things.

Excellent rasteriser engine, it does full clipping, has texture mapping and normal maps, back-face culling for speed and also uses an interesting technique to optimise the triangle filler.

Lovely rasterition engine which includes, object loader, shadows, material and full clipping. It is also very fast due to some clever optimisations and well crafted code.

Very well balanced photon mapper that includes pretty much everything, the light is actually three dimensional adding to the ambience of the rendering. Not just pretty, the project is optimised both methodologically and implementation-wise.

This is a very interesting raytracer, clearly it has the looks but its not conventional, if you look at the shadows they have different levels, there is also colour bleeding but its as you can see from the noisefree rendering its not a path tracer, neither a photon mapper, its well a Cox and Pettifer-Cole renderer.

Very well compositioned photon mapper including a lot of different things. What I really like with this rendering is how subtle all the effects are, often you see colour bleeding which is way to strong just to show off, here its subtle and it looks great. Also notice the effect of the depth of field it really adds to the interpretation of the image. Splendid work!

As a lecturer I try to tell truths, its kinda the basis for education, that I somehow tell you things that are at least somewhat right. One of the truths in Computer Graphics that I told you, which motivated the two courseworks was that raytracing is NOT realtime. Well in ever class there are always these people who just never listen and simply ignore what you say, people like Codrin and Michael for example. So rather than trusting their lecturer and admitting that raytraycing is not realtime they just had to go and do it and prove me wrong. This work is absolutely amazing, what you are seeing is a path-tracer in real-time, and its not just a simple one either, it has quite a big depth, it has reflections, refractions, and it just looks absolutely stunning. This is a second example of when I feel guilty giving someone a 100% mark, this deserves quite a bit more.

Have a look at that, phew, yet again goosebumps! The aim of this unit is to understand graphics, to go out of your comfort zone and explore, leave the shackles of right and wrong behind and just create. What Rachel and Josh have done here empitomizes this, early in the unit they started talking about water, and then over months of research, testing, implementing, they delivered this. The water surface is computed over a grid and has a very realistic motion, the technique is actually the one behind the water in the film Titanic (the only good thing about the film). Well not stopping there the scene is rendered using a photon mapper creating the wonderful caustic patterns both on the floor but also, have a look at the ceiling. Marvelous work!

The water obsession continued also in the world of real-time, here we got the same algorithm but you have to be clever to remove the parts of the method that has the least effect on the visuals, doing so requires you to really get what is going on.

How cool is this, the lighting the composition, the focus, its really nice. One of the reasons we loose realism is that rendered images often look too clean, the main culprit of this is that we do not model the camera particularly well. The reason is that the complexity goes up very very quickly. In this example we have a lovely example on how modelling focus in a camera adds to the visuals. Excellent work and not easy at all!