Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions

https://markjgillespie.com/Research/harnack-tracing/index.html

by mmulet • 2 years ago

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pixelpoet• 2 years ago

Keenan Crane back once again with the ~~renegade master~~ shithot diagrams! For those not familiar, check his publications with ridiculously beautiful diagrams, going way back (I remember when he was maybe best known for a Quaternion Julia tracer, often used to benchmark GPU FLOPs): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/

Also fun for topological nightmare enjoyers is his "Yeah Right" model on https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/ModelRepository/ (img link: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/ModelRepository/yea...)

littlestymaar3• 2 years ago

Eh, the field is called computer graphics, so having nice graphs is to be expected isn't it?

_a_a_a_2• 2 years ago

'graphics' yes, but 'nice' would be nice because they often aren't.

Mandelmus• 2 years ago

Clearly you haven’t read a lot of research papers in computer graphics, geometry processing, and shape analysis.

munificent• 2 years ago

back once again with the ~~renegade master~~

Wow, that just started a song playing in my head that I'd completely forgotten about for like 20 years. The version I know best is the Fatboy Slim remix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVb6ZuXrhXk

I played the hell out of that track.

_a_a_a_2• 2 years ago

yeah, love it too

keenan-crane• 2 years ago

Created an account just to say that my student Mark Gillespie made most of the figures in this paper, and is himself quite the renegade master:

https://markjgillespie.com/

nimish• 2 years ago

Cool as hell. Keenan Crane has excellent YouTube series on discrete differential geometry and computer graphics.

Hopefully this will lead to nicer physics graphics since harmonic functions are everywhere.

Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions

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