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Current Work
Honours
CMP400
Haboob Rendering | Coursework
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This is my penultimate coursework submission for uni. It consists of a custom engine volumetric rendering application with the backing of a 155 page dissertation.
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The application is public, you can find the github repo using this link ->
https://github.com/A9am777/CMP400-Project
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Inspiration: real-time computer graphics research tends to target everyday effects like clouds and fog. What about the haboob dust storm? Atmospheric dust has not been investigated to a great extent...
Application: C++, CMake, D3D11, HLSL
Features:
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Haboob volume generation
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Single phase scattering
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Novel (16 wavelength) spectral approximation
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Geometric product integration
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Real-time soft shadowing
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Established workflow with statically optimised shaders
This is a standard render of the haboob
The haboob casts spectral shadows using a 16 wavelength approximation
This is a standard render of the haboob
Check out the blog post for more info!
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Personal
Interpreter & Compiler | Personal Project
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As a side project to my voxel engine, I have been designing a RISC based instruction set alongside an interpreter and compiler for the sole purpose of writing short, interpreted programs which primarily call complex, compiled functions that are a part of the host application.
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The goal is to be able to run code from external files which describe how different voxel element types interact and react during events!
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Being developed in C++. An open source project which you can find here
Personal
Voxel Engine/Game | Personal Project
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An ambitious project where I'm programming a voxel-based simulation game. It will consist of destructible terrain and voxel 'objects' alongside living entities consisting of a tree structure of destructible object appendages.
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As shown in the video, I'm currently working on a voxel object creation tool, which includes a 3d camera; movement of a selection box along the cardinal directions relative to the camera's orientation; and most importantly, neighbour voxel selection from raycasting (currently sphere based).
The raycasting was a unique challenge due to the lengths at which I went to optimise objects. Each object consists of a variation on the octree DS where each level spans a different predetermined range of voxels. The spatial partitioning is also relative to each object's local transform. All of this together increased the complexity of the raycasting algorithm
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Made in C++ from scratch with only OpenGL, GLSL, Windows API and the Standard Library. Everything else, including I/O, maths, physics, etc. was programmed from scratch as my own static libraries
Past Work
CMP203
Graphics Programming | Coursework
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A small scene which features procedurally generated trees, clouds and a train track. The clouds are animated in the wind and the track has a train which goes around it. As the train progresses, more track is generated!
Made in C++ with OpenGL1.0
CMP105
Games Programming | Coursework
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This ̶t̶o̶t̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶c̶k̶o̶f̶f̶ game showcases a 2d lighting system, lightning/flashing in time with the music, a sprite-based UI system and a 2 player mode.
Made in C++ with SFML
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To aid track creation, I also made a track creation tool in C# with GDI+