Hi all,
over three years elapsed since my last real post. I live near Munich today, got married, left my comfortable scientific environment and entered the world of Java Technologies at comSysto. Sounds boring? Nope, it isn't at all! Today, I think I have learnt enough in the last years to start writing something about it. I even feel to be able to tell stuff, no one told before. Okay, maybe just a feeling, because everything was already told and written out there. But the feeling counts.

The first I need, is some reputation... ;)

But that doesn't mean that I'm no longer interested in Computer Graphics. Recently, Jo Hanika et al published a new paper on rendering images with realistic lenses. Maybe I should also give my C skills a chance and migrate Chroma to C++11, or continue on my Java8 raytracer? Hm, I will tell you soon ;).
So long!
Ben

I am very proud to mention the publication of a paper, which is a summary of the topics I wrote about in my diploma thesis. The famous "Computer Graphics Forum" accepted it after quite some revisions.
General spectral camera lens simulation
At this point I'd also like to say Thanks to Holger Dammertz, Johannes Hannika and Hendrik Lensch for the great support and revision work!

The final revision of my Diploma Thesis made it to my web site. It includes all ongoing work since then. Due to the heavy weight of beautiful uncompressed images in my original pdf, I had to compress it a bit afterwards for the sake of transfer volume.

• Diploma Thesis rev. 1.1 EBook Version
• Diploma Thesis rev. 1.1 Printable Version - Big file > 80MB

So long!

The Pacific Graphics Conference this year invited me to present the work and results of my thesis in a conference poster. I submitted a publication to the conference before, but it was not accepted.
Download Pacific Graphics Poster
At this point, special thanks to Paul van Walree for contributing his beautiful images to my presentation. Spend some time on the exciting topic of photographic optics on his website!