The method described in this article is a modified QR factorization. The matrices being used represent proteins, which allow the authors of the article to examine “the phylogenetic tree topology of the homologous group.” In order to do this, the QR factorization we learned in class was first modified to work with multiple […]

The singular value decomposition we learned in class can be used as a way to compress images. If you were given a 256 by 256 image, you could represent it by storing RGB values in a 256 by 256 matrix which correspond to each pixel in the image. In order to transmit this […]

Professor Philipp Slusallek at the University of Saarland, and other members of the OpenRT project have developed algorithms that have drastically sped up how fast ray tracing can be done. Using these algorithms on several computers (equivalent to about 36 GHz) the OpenRT group was able to achieve 20 fps while running a ray […]