Adaptive Spectral Mapping for Real-Time Dispersive Refraction

Spectral rendering, or the synthesis of images by taking into account the wavelengths of light, allows effects otherwise impossible with other methods. One of these effects is dispersion, the phenomenon that creates a rainbow when white light shines through a prism. Spectral rendering has previously remained in the realm of off-line rendering (with a few exceptions) due to the extensive computation required to keep track of individual light wavelengths. Caustics, the focusing and de-focusing of light through a refractive medium, can be interpreted as a special case of dispersion where all the wavelengths travel together. This thesis extends Adaptive Caustic Mapping, a previously proposed caustics mapping algorithm, to handle spectral dispersion. Because ACM can display caustics in real-time, it is quite amenable to be extended to handle the more general case of dispersion. A method is presented that runs in screen-space and is fast enough to display plausible dispersion phenomena in real-time at interactive frame rates

Music visualization

This project creates visualizations based on music. It takes in pieces of music and produces a series of visualizations showing patterns, time signature, tempo, consonance and overtones. These visualizations can be used to study not the notes, but the underlying structure of a song

Arms and armor of ancient Rome.

This project, prepared for Higgins Armory Museum, describes the arms and armor used by the Romans during their republic period (509 BC - 27 BC). We describe the armaments used, the tactics used by them, enough background information to put them in their proper context, and explain why they used what they did when they did. This document is essentially a hardcopy version of the web-based product, which was the primary focus of the project. The primary purpose of the web site is to teach visitors to Higgins Armory and the general public about the military matters of the republican period and their historical context