Tim Dahmen

Research Interests:

• realtime rendering
• mesh simplification
• game design, relation between game technology and story

Current Projects

• I'm currently writing a book about automated testing with eCATT for the SAP
• In my free time I'm developing the workmodel and procedural modeller module for the Otherland project

Past Projects & References

• a private fun project was the implementation of Oasen , the first realtime raytracing computer game ever
• in WS2002, I took great interest in the Rendering Competition of the corresponding Computer Graphics course. Results can be viewed online.
• also in WS2002, I used a model of an Hella lamp to generate realtime images with the RTRT realtime raytracing project. Main focus was on the creation of a realistic, but nevertheless fast glas shader.

Publications

• 2004
  Paper "Raytracing for Current and Future Games"
  Authors: Jörg Schmittler, Tim Dahmen, Daniel Pohl, Christian Vogelgesang, Philipp Slusallek
  Paper downloads:
  [pdf]
  Slides download:
  [pdf]
  Video download:
  [avi/divX]
  
  Diploma Thesis "Ray Tracing of Point Data"
  Author: Tim Dahmen
  Reviewers: Prof. Dr. Philipp Slusallek, Prof. Dr. Marc Stamminger
  Paper downloads:
  [pdf] - [ps]
  
  
  
• 2002
  Technical Report "Interactive Headlight Simulation - A Case Study of Interactive Distributed Ray Tracing -"
  Authors: Carsten Bendith, Tim Dahmen, Ingo Wald, Philipp Slusallek
  Paper downloads:
  [ps] - [pdf]
  
  

Private

• If you are interested, check out some nice photos from my 3-month-trip to Madagascar
• or visit the site of my Kendo group

Adress:

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