In preparation for this, my last blog entry, I worked out ahead of time a number of possible topics regarding singular value decomposition that would be both interesting and informative. I considered everything from data compression to signal noise reduction, but evidently failed to consider that all these topics would have been covered in […]

A quick survey of the past month’s posts would give one the impression that ultra-fast raytracing algorithms well be dominating digital media in a few short years. While raytracing can produce a beautiful render, however, it does have it’s disadvantages in comparison to present day rasterisation techniques as well, and as raster graphics most […]

During the past few lectures/sections, some attention has been paid to the issue of rounding errors, and the data type limitations of the modern digital computer. While I initially had no great interest in the topic, I did find myself thinking back to a problem posed to me some time ago by Dr. Robert […]