| 12.01.1991: |
First two-dimensional trials of the raytracing algorithm
with use of base classes, multiple inheritance and virtual functions.
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| 01.06.1991: |
Generalization to three-dimensional raytracing.
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| 05.04.1991: |
Rewriting of some Turbo-Pascal Code concerning gourod-shading
and wireframe-modeling from the magazine C't into C++.
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| 21.03.1992: |
Acceptable gourod-shading with Phong-lighting and Z-buffer
under GNU C++ 2.2.2 (DOS).
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| 17.05.1992: |
First simple simulation of a gravitational lens by spherical
approximation of the ray path.
These simulation have been presented in July
during a Summer School of the Austrian Space Agency
in Alpbach (nice, tiny village in Tyrol).
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| 17.08.1992: |
Some fascinating ideas have been found in the code of
the raytracer DBW_Render.
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| 20.03.1993: |
Simulation of a gravitational lens using the exact solution of a
timelike geodesic in the Schwarzschild field.
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| 01.01.1994: |
Implementation of the Radiation Transfer Equation for a
realistic description of interior light.
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| 03.10.1994: |
Creation of the Internet WWW Pages
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| Feb.1995: |
Creation of the Cloud Web Pages
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| Sep.1995: |
Publication of the Cloud Program in the November/December Issue of
Computer Grafica (Article by Stefano Alberico) and the
Black Hole Simulation in
Relativity and Scientific Computing
- Computer Algebra, Numerics, Visualization, Springer Verlag
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| 10.12.1995: |
Public Release of the Source Code (sorry, no longer available on math1).
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| 09.01.1996: |
Searoses Simulation and (Animation)
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| 20.04.1996: |
Starfield Simulation (Globular Cluster)
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| 16.08.1996: |
Moving objects, parallel raytracing for animations
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| 23.08.1996: |
Raytracing of the SAO Star Catalogue
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| 01.09.1996: |
The Clouds Generation Tutorial
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| 23.09.1996: |
Implementation of new fractal cloud algorithm
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| 25.09.1996: |
Raytracing Animation of the Pseudo-Escher Cube (not exactly the
true Escher Cube)
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| 21.07.1997: |
The Black Earth - general relativistic simulation
of the Earth's surface if it were a black hole, including effects of the Photon Orbit
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| Eastern 2000: |
Extensive Class Documentation available, the source
code of the Light++ library (kernel) is beeing made available via CVS.
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| May 2000: |
Demo Testsuite, which runs weekly to check
the functionality of the code, and to compare performance on a growing
variety of platforms.
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| October 2000: |
Release of the Terrestrian Generator
Linux binary
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(sorry, if the history ends here, this is not because the work has stopped, but because of lack of
time - the library still is beeing used and developed much further!)
