Jul 05 2018 Axis-Aligned Bounding Box - Cone Intersection

~ 4 Minute Read.

Dur­ing my bach­e­lor’s the­sis about view culling us­ing cone view vol­umes, I had to fig­ure out whether an ax­is-aligned bound­ing box over­laps a cone.

And when I say fig­ure out, I mean that I didn …

Jul 04 2018 Dual-Cone View Culling for Virtual Reality Applications

~ 6 Minute Read.

I once had this idea that plagued me for quite a while un­til I im­ple­ment­ed it in my bach­e­lor’s the­sis: isn’t the hu­man view vol­ume more cone-shaped than frus­tum-shaped? Al­so: lens­es of vir …

Jul 02 2018 Graph Based Tree Rendering with Vulkan

~ 2 Minute Read.

When I talk about my many past projects I of­ten en­tire­ly for­get to men­tion the ones I did at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kon­stanz. But in the six years I’ve been there up to now, there were some …

Jun 30 2018 Introduction to Emscripten Sockets

~ 5 Minute Read.

Since we’re work­ing on our mul­ti­play­er We­bXR game at Vhite Rab­bit, I need­ed to some­how con­nect to some serv­er to ex­change some da­ta via sock­ets from web as­sem­bly.

Our serv­er …

Jun 26 2018 CMake: Relink on File Change

~ 3 Minute Read.

In the last blog post (“We­bXR in C++”) there was a mi­nor in­con­ve­nience left in the cmake ex­am­ple. If you change the library_webxr.js, it will not re­link and there­fore your out­put .js ac­com­pa­ny …

Jun 25 2018 WebXR in C++

~ 3.5 Minute Read.

Web XR in C++… what?

I re­cent­ly had the joy of link­ing javascript to C++ code for a tiny game we’re build­ing at Vhite Rab­bit.

Com­pil­ers like Em­scripten or cheerp – which I didn’t get a chance …

Jun 23 2018 Data Recovery

~ 2 Minute Read.

I spent the last three days re­cov­er­ing old projects.

There is this one 2TB ex­ter­nal hard drive I had for ages, bro­ken for six years – yet I nev­er threw it away or tried to for­mat it to maybe be …

Jun 21 2018 Epic Ray Engine

< 2 Minute Read.

I just cre­at­ed a new repos­i­to­ry for Epic Ray on GitHub!

Code ist best kept in some open source git repos­i­to­ry, for oth­er peo­ple to be able to look at …