Long-term multi-priority surgery scheduling: a case study for the gynecology department

Progressive Texture Streaming

Since its conception, the increasing need for graphical detail has been a driving factor for the gaming industry. The 3D scenes rendered in modern games have increased in detail and scale at a rapid rate, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The ever-increasing processing power and the development of faster 3D rendering...

Dynamic Indirect Illumination in Real-Time Ray Tracing using Lightcuts

This thesis describes a system that adds plausible indirect illumination to the Arauna real-time ray tracer. Only the first diffuse reflection of light on static geometry is simulated. Light sources are allowed to be dynamic. Virtual point lights (VPLs) are used to simulate the reflection of light by surfaces. Their contribution to the final...

Simulating Urban Area Development for Semantic Game Worlds

Unbiased physically based rendering on the GPU

Since the introduction of General-Purpose GPU computing, significant increase has been made in performance for regular path tracing. However, more advanced versions of path tracing such as BiDirectional Path Tracing (BDPT) and Energy Redistribution Path Tracing (ERPT) have not been implemented successfully so far due to their stochastic sampling...

Ray Tracing NURBS Surfaces using CUDA

Several approaches have been made towards directly ray tracing NURBS-surfaces without first tessellating the surface. Some of these approaches have been implemented on the GPU in order to achieve interactive rates. This thesis presents CNRTS, a CUDA-based system capable of ray tracing NURBS-surfaces. In this system, the surfaces are subdivided...

Lumen Contouring and Retrospective Gating of Coronary OCT

Cardiovascular disease causes decreased blood flow to the heart and the brain. Due to the buildup of plaque the coronary arteries become narrow. The plaque can suddenly disrupt and partially or completely occlude a vessel, this can lead to myocardial infarction and sudden death. Angioplasty is a surgical procedure during which stents are placed...

Human atlas: A webbased 3D visualization using impostors

During this project a 3D model viewer was developed, which runs in a web environment. The viewer is developed in Java using the Java3D API. Since the model viewer will be running in a web environment, like a browser, special care has been taken to adhere to all imposed limits. The 3D viewer offers various degrees of freedom of movement around a...