Interactive Ray Tracer

A course project focused on developing a basic ray tracer, featuring:

    • Interactive GUI
    • Support for diffuse, metal, and dielectric materials
    • Ability to add materials, light sources, and objects (spheres)
    • Whitted Style Ray Tracing

RISC-V CPU in Verilog

A course project focused on developing a simulated RISC-V CPU on an FPGA development board, consisting of 3 parts:

    • Single cycle CPU
    • Pipelined CPU
    • Pipelined CPU with Hazard Unit and Branch Predictor

Software renderer

A compact software renderer that implements the rendering pipeline, featuring:

    • MVP (Model-View-Projection) transforms
    • Texture mapping
    • Z-buffer
    • Perspective projection
    • Programmable vertex & fragment shaders
    • Movable camera
    • Shadow mapping
    • Screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO)

Reproducing of photon mapping

A reproduction of the Rendering Techniques paper Global Illumination using Photon Maps with final gathering.

Q-MAT source code repository

An open-source code repository for SIGGRAPH paper Q-MAT: Computing Medial Axis Transform by Quadratic Error Minimization.

Under the guidance of Prof. Xiaohu Guo and Dr. Ningna Wang, I cleaned up the source code, set up the environment, and tested building the solution on Windows, leading to an open-source version for research. This was done during my remote internship at the University of Texas at Dallas.