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Self portrait?
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Welcome
to my homepage.
This page contains a portofolio
of my 3D artwork, a resume
and some links.
I am a
Norwegian student currently working on my thesis. I am studying
for a master in engineering with the specialty in computer graphics
and virtual reality. (With a particular interest in game development)
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Please
enjoy my images, and if you want to use the images for a non comercial
use, feel free. I would be gratefull if you let me know.
-Bendik
Stang
(click to email)
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New
Feb 7:
Proposal @ Space
Generation Summit. - Moon exploration.
The result of my groups work at SGS:
The Space Generation Summit (SGS) gathered over 200 international
students and young professionals to develop a youth vision and
strategy for the peaceful uses of space. In conjunction with the
World Space Congress, (WSC) this conference was endorsed by the
United Nations and took place from October 11 through 13th. Delegates
discussed ongoing youth space activities, particularly those stemming
from the UNISPACE-III and Space Generation Forum conferences,
held concurrently in Vienna, 1999, and taken forward by the Space
Generation Advisory Council (SGAC). Delegates addressed a variety
of topics with the goal of creating new recommendations according
to the theme, 'Accelerating Our Pace in Space'. The Human Exploration
of the Moon working group investigated methods of accelerating
our pace in the direction of lunar exploration and settlement.
The material presented here and in other technical sessions throughout
WSC includes the findings of these discussions. (read
more)
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Nov 22:
More plant algoritms - for TGE.
You
cannot have a forest without proper grass.
Vertex
coloring of the grass.
You can now use 1 gray texture to allow you to
make any colored grass you like. (e.g. Make the grass yellow during
winter and green during spring.)
You can have different colors on the top than bottom of the grass
elements. (like brown to green)
Circular
and Squared distribution area.
The circular area distrobution tends to have a
higher density in the middle than the edges.
The squared distribution area distributes the grass elements quite
evenly over the given area.
Grass/crop
row orientation
To allow rows of crops or wheat fields, it is possible
to toggle between random and specified orientation. (Specify angle
between 0-360)
Terrain
curvatured placement
The grass elements
are much like the foliage elements in the fxFoliageReplicator,
except they are generally longer. This caused the grass elements
to stick out of the sloped terrain. The code now does a double
collision test to adjust the grass elements to the curves of the
terrain.
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fxGrassReplicator |
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Nov 14:
Game engine implementation
I
have created some models for Adellion, that also add some nice
elements to the testworld that I'm working on for my thesis.
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Trees,
grass and buildings. |
Oct.
24:
Poster for
WSC on the HyperGravity experiment
Click
for .pdf
Oct.
2:
Preview on my thesis progress.
I
have managed to get the first milestone in my thesis completed. Each
tree is unique and generated from a L-system.
Sept.
27:
Sci.fi. short story about maglev launch.
In
order to illustrate how a possible space launch with a magneto levitation
cannon would work, I wrote a little somthing about it. (full
story)
Sept.
23:
Results from the hypergravity experiment.
The Danish center for animal experiments would not give me a license
to test my experiments on sharks. They reasoned that the fish might
suffer psycologically.
Shrimps
and Crabs are not vertebraes and thus not protected by any laws, and
so they were used instead.
I
hoped to prove that they would survive at 50G, but it turned out that
I could not find the maximum acceleration they could sustain! The centrifuge
could accelerate the payload up to 83G, and at 83G the shrimps were
still vividly jumping around in the water.
Preliminary
report: (Click
here)
For a long time I have dreamt of rotating a shark....Now, I'll do it,
and hopefully present it at the World Space Conference in October. (Thanks
to ESA for inviting me)
Click here to learn more
about gravity physics.
Click here
to learn more about the experiment.
Click here to se the preliminary results.
After
2 years of doing realistic/medieval stuff I needed to do somthing
futuristic.....
The
gun is inspired from 5th Element...(click to enlarge)
image2
and image3
Poster
on my thesis concept (click to enlarge)
Redone lowpoly girl (ca. 1700 polysgons)
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