This piece I really like. Why? I'll think of a good reason later :-).
Actually Matthew is the author of a book called "Down". His full home page is here. There's another really cool photo here which is a beautiful picture of a dark and stormy night, complete with psychotic killer.
One of my most interesting projects is to write a renderer. Here are some images from it.
The above is a rendered image which I like to call "Creature in the
corner". It consists solely of spheres and was done with only revision
1 of the software. It's pretty boring, huh ?
A more realistic looking object. A billiard ball on a table, with three
different light sources. Still done using revision 1.
My favourite and most advanced piece, done with revision 3 of the software
and based on an input file created by Peter J. White, which I've heavily
modified. While it shows off the features of the renderer, it also shows
off some of the flaws. For example, how many glass spheres do you know
cast shadows, as the on in this scene does? Of course, I had to include
an original Amiga ball :-).
Once upon a time, there was this tutor in concurrent computing who wanted to come up with an assignment that attempted to be fun for the students. Fun and concurrent computing, however, appeared to go together as well as justice and American international policy. Still, he tried his best.
He found this really interesting idea for image compression that
presented some parallelisation possibilities. Accidentally along
the way, he discovered that you could use them to make some
interesting shapes that were recursive (or fractal) in nature.
More info here.
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