JESSICA BARON

I implemented a microfacet model to the smallpt path-tracing renderer using the GGX normal distribution and shadow-masking functions.

I implemented a procedural texture in GLSL for my 3D-modeled version of a personal piece of Labradorite. The shader has multiple layers of Perlin noise, Perlin's marble noise, and physically inspired light-angle and lamellae (layer) refraction calculations.

This is a collection of procedural shaders including: a toon shader, shaping functions and curves, procedural animation, and noise.

This project is a simulation of hummingbirds interacting with each other around a feeder.  There are 3 main stages of the development of the project:  asset preparation, flight animation, and simulation control.

This project is an implementation of inverse kinematics on a chain of joints driven by a user-controlled, end effector (the hummingbird object).

A flocking "boids" simulation of particles.

A face-mesh rigid-body object in an environment that can handle wind-like forces.

A computer graphics project in which I implemented an adaptation of Keller's Instant Radiosity (SIGGRAPH 1997) paper, generating color bleeding in the scene. I also created a normal map texture file and used it in shader calculations.

Blinn-Phong shading and 3-point lighting implementation applied to a mesh of the Stanford Bunny loaded via parsing a PPM file and using OpenGL vertex arrays.  The material shading (including the additional textures) and lighting are calculated in GLSL shader programs.

A 2D video game written in object-oriented C++ using SDL2 and my own pixel art aspects.

Translation of the dungeon generator code into C++ to use in a 3D game project in Epic Game's Unreal Engine 4, in which a metallic werewolf wanders around a procedurally generated dungeon environment composed of large, stone walls.

Dungeon generator project composed of several room- and corridor-generating algorithms, used as my project in an algorithms course.

Spewing particles  implemented in OpenGL using textures and physics equations.

Transformations implemented using matrices and vectors to transform geometry in 3D and 2D coordinate spaces.

Colored fragments are mapped fromspheres in 3D space to pixels in 2D space using raycasting and the Blinn-Phong lighting model.

Pixel manipulation through C and OpenGL, concerning reading and writing pixel information and draw lines, circles, and Bézier curves.

Software I made for the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Center and its visitors.

Breadth-First and Depth-First pathfinding algorithms.

Visualizing recursion through fractal trees and ferns.