DaisyRiot: Building a global illumination renderer based on radiosity

This report documents the DaisyRiot global illumination renderer. The renderer applies the radiosity method and uses spectral rendering in order to simulate fluorescent materials: materials can reflect energy of a given frequency at another frequency. Rendering is accelerated by NVIDIA OptiX and CUDA parallelization. In this document you will...

Colciencias

Colombia’s economy has been growing steady in the past decades, partly because of the increase in tourism. However, this tourism also has a downside. Hotels and restaurants are constructed one after another, preferably along the coast. This, combined with factors such as climate change and land subsidence and the fact that people tend to prefer...

Building on extreme height - what you need to know before designing on Mount Everest

This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Innovation and Sustainability This manual contains general information on the environment of Mt Everest, culture, health, climate, resources, transportation options, building materials and building constructions.