You seem to have a clear idea of where you are going with this and have already made progress in getting the actual software required installed in the university itself (CUDA as far as I remember but I’m sure you mentioned an alternative). Each of those suggested research questions could all be a viable course of action for the project, and I think the one you have selected covers a narrow enough topic to allow a definite and concise answer in the end.

Judging from how often I see you in the labs and also from your previous work I have proper confidence in you achieving a great result and look forward to seeing it!

Thanks for the article, I will give it a read when I get back from Berlin. I too came across a GPU Gems article by accident that turned out to be quite useful haha. Funny how that happens :S

As for your project on the global illumination stuff, it would be very interesting to combine it with yours should I get a good frame rate – which, giving the ample articles I now have on the subject would suggest, I should – then I would definitely be interested in some form of integration with your project. However, this may just be getting ahead of ourselves as we havn’t even written our proposals yet hehe.

Thanks for the comment!

Dave

Great project, i found an article that might interest you. Volumetric Light Scattering as a Post Process, chapter 13 of GPU Gems 3. I came across it by accident when looking up global illumination, The book and demo is in the library too.
Also im looking at doing ray tracing/photon mapping or a combination of both, so i think we might still be able to combine them some how. Especially if you implement this as a post process