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CWSF Winnings
Well, the results are in!
I cleaned up this year, w000t!
Silver Medal, Computing and Information Technology:
$700 Cash, $2000 UBC Scholarship, $1500 University of Western Ontario Scholarship
Manning Innovation Achievement Award:
I was one of the 8 finalists to recieve the $500 cash prize, and one of the 4 chosen of those 8 to recieve the $4000 cash prize [...]
Canada Wide Science Fair
I’ve been away for awhile at the Canada Wide Science Fair in Truro, Nova Scotia. It’s my fourth year at a CWSF.
This year I did a project called “Neural Networks: Image Recognition” where I use artificial neural networks and the SIFT algorithm to do reliable image recognition (its about 80% accurate, even for flipped, rotated, [...]
Cg: Dynamic Ambient Occlusion
I recently found Ulf Assarsson’s Homepage, where he has a tonne of great papers on Soft Shadows, Ambient Occlusion, Frustrum Culling, among other things. He also uses Cg for alot of his shader work :D
I read the Fast Precomputed Ambient Occlusion for Proximity Shadows paper, and I’m starting to implement the algorithm he came up [...]
