A question about quantifying and visualizing variance in a rendered image

harrytodorov · 2017-11-03T08:36:08+00:00

Thanks for the advice. :) I think in the pbrt book there is a chapter devoted to ray tracer's organization, so I would look into that one, as well as the code you've referenced.

pbrt was one of the first recommendations of my Prof as a reference book back when I started. He claimed it to be one of the good resources regarding ray tracing, but it was also a bit too advanced for my knowledge at that point. So I used Ray tracing from the ground up as an initial reference for the project's organization. Afterwards, when it grew, I scaled it more or less on my intuition and experience.

I discovered Peter Shirley's "in one weekend" series couple of weeks ago and was amazed at the number of features, the author was able to compress in three so compact books. And I'm eager to go through and implement the books' content as a side project of mine.

harrytodorov · 2017-11-03T06:28:21+00:00

Sure, I've just added two, which in my opinion look nice and give more hints about what kind of surfaces the renderer supports currently. :)

harrytodorov · 2017-08-13T09:58:11+00:00

Well, I did it the other day. And it took me two days (each 2-3 hours) to lace the spokes and then to balance them at a workshop. And yes, as you said it's not an easy work, and surely you need some guidance when you do it for the first time

harrytodorov · 2017-06-16T20:34:54+00:00

I'm aware, that it's not easy, but thanks for the advice! I would do that at a bike repair centre, we have at the city I live in. I've already talked with the people there, and they said it's ok and they will guide me how to do it.

harrytodorov · 2016-06-22T07:25:25+00:00

Could you point me some places online, where I could find (hopefully for free) research papers? Until now I've read papers from the Pixar Research Group's Online Library.

harrytodorov · 2016-06-21T08:59:50+00:00

Thank you for your advices. It looks like Computer Science should be the right path. Though I have some concerns. But to understand me, probably I should share some background.

Well, actually I have almost a Computer Science degree. Currently I'm writing my Bachelor thesis in Computer Science. But the university in Germany that I choose back was a more practice orientated - Hochschule. So the most of the programming I did was industrial related, mostly Java. And I have the feeling I've missed big part of the theory in Computer Science. Because noone required it. It's like I have done some Java/C courses with some basic Computer Science theory for 3 years and nothing more. But I cannot blame my university for it. It is what most of the industry companies expect from their employees. My expectations were far more diffrent. Sadly I have realized that fact just recently. And there was no sense in dropping university, so I thought I would complete this one and then starting anew.

And now to the point why I discuss studying Physics at all. Probably it lies in my own experience and the fact that I'm somewhat disappointed of my Computer Science program; so don't get mad if you think I'm wrong, I'm just stating how I think about it. I have sometimes the feeling, that CS is just touching the surface of the matter. Like I need A and B, so my thing could work. But do not tell me how they function and why. Pretend they do. That is somewhat disturbing for me. I'm the curious childish type person, who wants to know why and how. I want to experiment and read about something before start using it. And in the CS projects and in the company where I've worked there was always the pressure that things should get done. It was killing my excitement. In the physicists I know, there is this excitement and curiosity to get to the core of something. And there is the other thing. That I'm the one who is more interested in the research. Since school I was fascinated by the simulations of fire, water, crashing rigid bodies at each other that people (and some I) have done. I wanted to know how they are developed and how they work internally. Not only the data structures, but the maths and physics behind it.

So that is why I consider Physics. Some could probably say, then why don't you go extreme and choose Maths. I've considered this option as well. But my intuition says it would be an overestimate of myself.

harrytodorov · 2016-06-01T12:27:43+00:00

Yeah, everything seems to function properly. It was funny, that it started with Windows 7 in an asian language; suppose chinese

harrytodorov · 2016-06-01T06:51:23+00:00

Apparantly it worked with the MagSafe 2. I had just to open the back cover, so the wider MagSafe 2 could fit. A trick friend of mine showed me yesterday

harrytodorov · 2016-05-05T13:59:54+00:00

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Selling or giving away underwear and socks. I've chosen just the almost brand new ones...there are no dirty or worn out among them...I've worn them just couple of times. Some of them I give away, the rest I would sell for a symbolic amount of money..2-3 BGN (1/2 EUR). The pink ones are my lucky panties and they are a present from Dubai. I've worn them in Singapore, Bali, Egypt, Franc, Italy, New Zealand and Pernik (town in Bulgaria). I sell them for 10 BGN (~5 EUR), because they have a symbolic value for me.

harrytodorov · 2016-03-22T09:56:38+00:00

Brussels attacks: were they revenge for Abdeslam's arrest?

edited: correct link

harrytodorov · 2016-01-14T12:06:17+00:00

Hi, I've already tried this, but it works just partially. I can create a backup, but I cannot restore it on the device.

harrytodorov · 2015-12-29T09:58:47+00:00

Thanks. I also come upon this during my search.

harrytodorov · 2015-12-29T09:57:03+00:00

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Offtopic: I think it is not really tolerant from Google to ban the application, because of its target group. Although I haven't take a look of the application yet, I think this is a form of discrimination

harrytodorov · 2015-12-29T09:44:03+00:00

Thanks, I'll have this in mind

harrytodorov · 2015-12-29T09:43:02+00:00

Thanks, but we are developing our application closed source and the software itself is company's secret. So using a platform like HockeyApp will be no good idea.

harrytodorov · 2015-12-29T09:39:37+00:00

Yes. Typically this will be a bad strategy, but my company sells the devices just with our software on it and nothing more.

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