Zihong Zhou
Have fun. Be awesome.
Biography
I am a master student in computer science at Dartmouth College.
I am strongly interested in computer graphics, especially in physically based rendering. I attempt to learn and understand the principles behind natural phenomena appearing in the physical world. I could then synthesize realistic images in a virtual world fabricated by math and code.
Previously I worked on analytical area light integration for interests under the supervision of Dr. Li-Yi Wei. My research interests involve efficient sampling and integration for rendering application.
Interests
- Physically Based Rendering
- Appearance Modeling
Education
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M.S. in Computer Science, with concentration in Digital Arts, 2022-2024
Dartmouth College
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BSc in Computer Science, 2021
South China Agricultural University
Projects
Rendering Competition FA22
Final report of the rendering competition for CS87/287: Rendering Algorithms at Dartmouth College. We won the grand prize!
Living-Room in Unity
A course project on Virtual Reality exploring Lightmapping techniques with the High-Definition Rendering Pipeline in Unity.
Recent Posts
An Engineer's Look on the Architecture of pbrt-v4 for GPU Ray Tracing
A talk given at Revobit on studying pbrt-v4’s architecture for GPU ray tracing.
Sample Results From an Anonymous DXR Renderer
Overview I spent a few time in 2021 learning realtime rendering techniques and graphics API such as OpenGL and DirectX 12. I then immediately turn to DirectX Raytracing (DXR) as a big fan of tracing rays.
Bring the Living-Room to Unity.
Notes This is my final project for a virtual reality and game development course. My contribution is bringing a Benedikt Bitterli’s famous rendering scene living-room to Unity and showing how we could use various rasterization techniques to approximate the beauty image produced by offline renderer.
