Today I want to post a video of my flight with the Robbe Bandit, a RC plane. The flight ends with a crash, but nothing seriously happend.

The video has been taken a while ago, but since I had no blog till now, I post it anyway.

Gruppenzwang

My brother Martin Knecht and I developed the graphic demo 'Gruppenzwang' within the course 'Realtimegraphics'.

Together with Alhambra we made the first place this year.

Technical details:

• C++ with DirectX
• FBX for the scenes
• FMOD for the sound
• PhysX for some physical events
• hlsl Shader

Effects:

• Shadowmaps with softshadows
• Screen spaced ambient occlusion
• Dynamic Cubemap Environment Mapping
• Parallax Occlusion Mapping
• Swarm simulation
• Splinemeshes
• Pixelperfect spheres (with raycasting)
• Volume renderer
• Microscope effect
• Normalmapping microscope effect
• Motionblur
• Flow simulation
• screen distortion
  

Gruppenzwang can be downloaded here.

Flow Visualization

Another program we have developed for the laboratory "Visualization" was FlowVis.

It enables us to visualise flow data.

Features:

• streamlines (including evenly spaced seedpoints)


• color-coding


• tapering


• texture generation


• glyph mapping

More infos (in german only): FlowVis

Volume Visualization

For the laboratory 'Visualization' Matthias Thöny and I developed a volume renderer to visualize CT data.

We focused our attention on doing the rendering very fast to watch the data smoothly in realtime.

More infos (in german only): VolVis

Flab!

Together with my fellow student David Jakubowicz we developed a computergame called 'Flab!' for the course 'Computergraphics 2' at the Vienna University of Technology.

We have done it in one semester (about 4 months) and we made the third place at the contest of the laboratory.

Technical details:

• C++ combined with OpenGL
• FBX for the levels
• Ageia PhysX for the physical interaction (you need the Driver to play Flab!)
• FMOD for the sound

Effects:

• Cubemap Environment Mapping
• Shadowmaps
• Normalmapping
  

Play a soft, solid or flying character and try to reach the end of the levels: Download