#graphics posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/graphics/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #graphics. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:19:59 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ Links #15 https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/links-15/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/links-15/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:00:00 GMT
  • Ben Kuhn on your attention being your scarcest resource — thinking a lot about this lately since I tend to have too many plates spinning at a time (his blog in general is quite good, by the way)
  • Matt Webb on a countdown zine site — this countdown clock idea is intriguing and now I’m thinking about using this idea on some things
  • Jake Archibald on AVIF — a new image compression format I’d never heard of but which looks quite promising
  • Apocalyptic West Coast fires — whoa (“hot coals the size of marbles falling from the sky”)
  • Self-powered wireless keyboard made out of paper — though with electronics printed on it (still cool)

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    ]]>         Last night I finished writing a ray tracer for class. Super basic, no antialiasing, only a couple pr... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/751/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/751/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT Last night I finished writing a ray tracer for class. Super basic, no antialiasing, only a couple primitives, but still fun.

    rust-raytracer.png

    It was also my first real project in Rust. Overall, great experience. The borrow checker was mystifying at first (and admittedly still is to some degree), but it wasn’t as bad as I’d expected. And the language itself is lovely to code in. Great ergonomics, even if the syntax is occasionally intimidating. I’m excited to do more with it. (I’ve been thinking about possibly rewriting md2epub in either Rust or Go at some point.)

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    ]]>         As of a few weeks ago, I’m now planning to apply for the master’s program in computer science at BYU... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2016/508/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2016/508/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:00:00 GMT As of a few weeks ago, I’m now planning to apply for the master’s program in computer science at BYU, with a thesis focus in computer graphics (at this point I’m thinking maybe photorealistic rendering). If I do get admitted, I’ll start in January 2018 (I have some background courses to take first because my undergraduate degree wasn’t in computer science) and plan to finish by April 2021.

    Anyway, I mention it mainly because things will probably slow down a bit on here for the next four years. I’ll try to keep blogging, but non-CG side projects will mostly be on the back burner till after I’m done.

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