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• Rendering Pixel Art in Real Time

  15. March 2026

  I love stylized art styles, and pixel art is a style that I find particularly charming. But making good pixel art is very difficult, especially animated pixel art. So as a graphics programmer, I wanted to see if I could create a rendering pipeline that renders pixel art directly from a 3D scene.

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• Developing a Physically-Based Path Tracer (CG24 Project Report)

  13. February 2025

  The final project of the computer graphics course at ETH is to develop a physically-based path tracer. In this report, I explain the techniques I used to implement features for my own path tracer and how I designed the final scene, which got me first place in the 2024 Rendering Competition.

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• Reverse Engineering Blender's AgX Tonemapper

  25. September 2024

  Blender 4 introduced AgX as the default tone mapper, offering better handling of high-intensity colors. While integrating it into my own projects, I struggled with its LUT-based implementation and chose to create my own approximation, focusing on visual appeal over accuracy.

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• Designing Beautiful Worlds with Procedural Texture Generation

  29. January 2023

  In this project I tried to procedurally generate visually appealing 3D renders of planets and stars. By layering a bunch of noise functions we can create complex textures that resemble space.

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• More Posts Coming Soon!

  I am currently working on various projects for this blog. These range from making video games to goofing around with AI to reinventing math. Expect to see some cool stuff soon!