3d graphics developer

This blog is a collection of ideas and work samples, loosely related to vfx and simulation. Areas of interest are computer graphics in general, effects simulation and volumetric rendering. 🚀 🎆 🎇

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1 min read publication, fluid simulation

RBF-Fluids

Our paper “RBF Liquids: An Adaptive Pic Solver Using RBF-FD” was accepted to Siggraph Asia 2020 and will be published in an upcoming edition of the ACM Transactions on Graphics journal.

Our work introduces an adaptive fluid simulator that uses Radial Basis Function-based Finite Differences, a first in Computer Graphics.

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3 min read academic writing, latex, git

I was recently involved in a collaborative paper writing effort, and the people involved chose to use Overleaf as the main writing platform. Overleaf and ShareLaTeX, now under one roof, are the major online text editors for LaTeX files. The idea behind Overleaf is great - it’s like Google Docs for LaTeX documents. The problem is I’m not crazy about doing my writing on a web app - just a personal preference.

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1 min read python, programming, web, django

The website I developed for my wedding, as I outlined in this previous post, reached the end of its lifetime. I had already downgraded Heroku back to the free tier, but Amazon S3 costs continued to accumulate. And since it has been almost one year since the wedding happened, there seemed to be no reason other than nostalgia to keep the website running. The entire source code has been dumped to GitHub - the only modification I’ve made was to replace some of the images with non-descript gradients.

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4 min read programming, python, django, web

Elisabeth and I are getting married in a few weeks, which means we’ve been in wedding-planning mode for the past year or so. And while planning required the typical steps of finding a suitable venue and selecting a caterer and so on, we decided early on to rely enough on a wedding website, such that we could get away with (aka, the requirements): Instead of sending out one Save the Date card and one Invitation in the mail to each guest, we would send out a single invitation with the url for the website;

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3 min read programming, C++

Table of Contents What I’m doing What you’ll need Step 1: Install PCM Step 2: Using PCM’s CPU Counters in your code What I’m doing I needed to profile a C++ method for a graduate course I’m taking. More specifically, I wanted to be able to see memory access patterns and how the hit ratios for cache memory were affected by different coding strategies.

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