Sunday, March 02, 2008

geometric algebra/calculus

so...i was trying to find out how to do a real-time global illumination such as lightsprint sdk and enlighten of geomerics and found this weird term mentioned in technology page of geomerics, geometric algebra. what the *bleep* is this *bleep* term meant, i said to myself, is this a new way to do things in computer graphics?

luckily, geomerics provides a separate page for geometric algebra for a newbie like me. they even provide us with a list of resources for further understanding. either they are just a bunch of nice people or they are giving us a hint that we need to know this *bleep* to utilize their product.

to my surprise, geometric algebra has been utilized in computer graphics since (or maybe before) year 2000, siggraph offered a course about it at their conference in 2000. i guess it's time for me to catch up.

that's all for now folks. have a lovely day.

No comments: