Rant on TelstraClear

I feel the need to document my frustrations with my ISP, and rant to noone in particular. My blog is a good place to do so. Here goes.

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April 15th, 2010 | Posted in Intarwebs | 2 Comments »

Sunsets

Are awesome.

April 8th, 2010 | Posted in Life, Photographics | No Comments »

Ch-ch-changes

Just moved into a new flat. It’s pretty great (and my new room is like 3 times the size of my old one), but it’s going to take a week for our ISP to transfer our connection to the new address. Which means I’m limited to going online at work, and I’m going a little bonkers not being able to go online at home.

In other miscellaneous news, summer is wrapping up, which means that in about 3 months the ski season will be starting again – can’t wait! This year a few of us are planning a week-long South Island trip, which should be totally epic!

March 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Boredom, Intarwebs, Life | No Comments »

Raytrace

Recently, I have been playing around a bit with some old ray tracing code, converting it to C# and making it threaded. I’m also using it to explore miscellaneous graphics and 3D concepts. Most recently I’ve implemented supersampling anti-aliasing. Here’s a recent render:

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It’s a little unclear, but it’s a number of perfectly reflective spheres hovering above a green plane, being imaged from above. There are several bounce iterations, two light sources, and full specular shading/shadows. Notice the non-jagged edges (indicating that the antialiasing is functioning as intended).

Here’s a closer view with some additional stochastic anti aliasing:

March 17th, 2010 | Posted in Code | No Comments »

A week in the life of Tom

Have been feeling a weird urge to design something lately. This was what I came up with. Open to ideas for things to do next.

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Addendum to key: PHOTOSHOP – 2 HOURS.

March 15th, 2010 | Posted in Boredom, Life | 2 Comments »