Voronoi Noise

2025-01-31 :: tags: #hobby#resume

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Detail your experiments with voronoi noise.

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Harmonic Coordinates

2024-04-18 :: tags: #class#resume

An implementation of Harmonic Coordinates for Character Articulation. I wrote a mock paper about it.

I first implemented a 2D version of this algorithm in CSC 486B (Geometric Modeling) with Teseo Schneider. This was accomplished in python using numpy and meshplot.

When I needed a final project for CSC 473 (Fundamentals of Computer Animation) with Brandon Haworth, I decided to implement the algorithm in 3D. This implementation is written in rust, using eframe for windowing/ui and wgpu for rendering.

One thing I enjoyed while working on this project was optimizing the code. The most computationally-intensive step involves smoothing values over a grid. I chose it implement this using one thread, a thread for each CPU core, and a thread for each cell on the GPU. In the paper, the single-threaded algorithm is the most performant. This is followed by the multi-threaded and GPU algorithms.

Almost immediately after turning in the paper, however, I found a stupidly simple optimization for my CPU-parallel algorithm. The multi-threaded algorithm is now the most performant by far!