Hi. I'm Reedbeta. I'm 24 years old, a software engineer from the USA. My main areas of interest are theoretical physics and computer graphics.

My website

• http://www.reedbeta.com/
• Active on forums at DevMaster

My articles

Articles I've written so far or am currently working on, or to which I've made major contributions.

• Distributed ray tracing (March 2005)
• Space partitioning (March 2005)
• Subsurface scattering (March 2005)
• kd-tree (April 2005)
• Paul Debevec (April 2005)
• Specular highlight (April 2005)
• Transformation matrix (April 2005)
• Perlin noise (April 2005)
• Rendering (computer graphics) (May 2005)

Todo-list

Articles that need to be written - by me or by someone else. I've broken them up into categories...

Global illumination

• Physically based rendering / Physically based illumination
• BRDF / Bidirectional reflectance distribution function
• BSSDF / Bidirectional surface scattering distribution function
• Tone mapping
• Tristimulus curves
• Illumination and shading models (Illumination model and Shading model)
• Cook-Torrance shading model
• Image-based lighting
• Light probe
• Light stage
• Reflectance spectrum
• Volume lighting
• Hypertexturing

Interactive graphics

• Geometry pipeline
• High Level Shading Language (aka HLSL)
• OpenGL Shading Language (aka GLSL, glslang)
• Stencil buffer
• Shadow map / Shadow mapping
• AABB tree
• Environment mapping
• Precomputed radiance transfer

Personages and organizations

• Architecture Review Board

Needing revision

These are articles I think need revision. (I'll get to them myself someday if no one else does.)

• Phong shading
• Vertex and pixel shaders
• 2D computer graphics
• 3D computer graphics - rewrite in progress at Talk:3D computer graphics/Temp
• 3D projection - probably needs a rename, too
• Shadow Volumes / Stencil shadow volume / Carmack's Reverse - should be rolled into one article, called Shadow volumes (lowercase), and expanded
• Ray casting
• Polygon (computer graphics) - quite possibly an entirely pointless article

Needing expansion

Stub articles, and other articles not yet detailed enough.

• Quadtree
• Octree
• Toon shader
• Transform and lighting
• Rendering equation