Projects

Below is an overview of all relevant projects I have worked on in reverse chronological order, grouped by year. Additional information can be viewed by clicking on a project image, and external project websites are opened by clicking on the globe icon.

2020
	Contour shader	A Maya contour shader to achieve a toon look.
	Cel shader	A Maya cel shader to achieve a toon look.
2019
	3D brush shader	A Maya shader for texture bombing, enabling low-effort texture generation while retaining artistic control.
2018
	MegaViews: many-view rendering	Scalable many-view rendering with concurrent scene-view hierarchy traversal.
2016
	Voxel compression for high-resolution scenes	Geometry and attribute compression for high-resolution voxel scenes.
	Expressive single scattering	Stylizing light shafts by changing their shape and density, colors and regularity.
2015
	Stylized single scattering	Stylizing light shafts in homogeneous media using intuitive tools.
	Flood simulation and visualization for analysis	An interactive simulation and visualization tool for flood analysis usable for practitioners.
2014
	Canonical view in 3D cities	Real-time canonical-angle views in 3D virtual cities to enhance building recognizability.
	Website including forums	Creation of an advanced website containing a forum and other interactive elements.
	Irregular perspective rendering	A new definition of the field of view; instead of one frustum, multiple frustums are stacked on top of eachother in the z-direction.
2013
	timothykol.com	Creation of a personal website including a portfolio.
	Real-time cloud rendering on the GPU	A novel method for rendering realistic clouds in real-time, even on low-end GPUs.
2012
	Analytical sky simulation	Implementation and analysis of two existing sky rendering methods.
	Game physics	Implementation of game physics through prediction and convergence on a client side and actual physics simulation on a server.
	Spring/mass system	Simulation of a rope, a piece of cloth, and jelly through representing them as a spring-mass system.
	Dark Magic	Design and implementation of a small 2D role-playing game.
	Space Drifter	Development of a simple racing game implementing a self-made game engine.
	Flower classification	A program that is able to classify flowers based on a training set, through the use of HSV and SIFT descriptors.
	Irony	Production of a short animated movie made through motion capture technology.
2011
	Heat Kernel Signature	3D model retrieval using the heat kernel signature.
	Jubula	Applying test tool Jubula to JPacman in Eclipse.
	Toy Factory	Creation of a speech recognition minigame for English language education.
2010
	Shopping Mall Ninja	Design and implementation of a 3D adventure game.
	Hand gestures	Maze game controlled by webcam-captured hand gestures.
2009
	AI in soccer	Artificial intelligence for a multi-agent soccer simulation.
2008
	Vriendendienst	Easy to use online event origanizer for elderly people.
2007
	The Lost Carrot	Design and implementation of a small 2D role-playing game.