The introduction of the programmable pipeline in video cards enables many new techniques. It is now possible to run code that is executed on different frequencies: per vertex and per pixel. This pipeline also introduces new problems like managing a dynamic number of lights. Lighting is normally done per vertex, but can also be done per pixel.
Keep IT Simple Software wants to add support for the programmable pipeline in their Lumo engine. This requires a new way of managing lights and also makes a new lighting model possible. Other uses of the programmable pipeline and the new lighting model are the implementation of cinematic effects like depth of field or motion blur. Another idea is the acceleration of Global Illumination using the programmable pipeline.
The goal of this project is to design a programmable pipeline implementation in Lumo, a lighting model for that pipeline implementation and to try and accelerate (if possible) Global Illumination using that.
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