Wenzel Jakob

Wenzel Jakob 

Wenzel Jakob
Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University

Advisor: Steve Marschner

Contact

5156 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850

Interests and Current Research

Papers and Theses

Capturing Hair Assemblies Fiber by Fiber, Wenzel Jakob, Jonathan T. Moon, Steve Marschner – to appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2009)
An Analytic Framework for Anisotropic Diffusion in Computer Graphics, M.Eng. Project, CS, Cornell University
Accelerating the bidirectional path tracing algorithm using a dedicated intersection processor, Undergraduate thesis, CS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

An open source implementation including all VHDL cores is available at: https://wazlaf.org/svn/intersect/trunk

Personal and Class Projects

ubiquaque, a cross-platform physically-based renderering system written in C++. Its primary goal is the distribution of lengthy rendering-related task over a scalable parallel computation layer capable of handling hundreds of cores
fsolver, a projection-method fluid simulator using staggered grids and semi-Lagrangian advection
autodiff.h, a fully templated automatic differentiation library for C++
Eating Healthy, my final project for Don Greenberg’s course Computer Animation

Education

Teaching

I was a teaching assistant for:

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