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                        <h2>Rendering Pixel Art in Real Time</h2>
                        <p class="date">15. March 2026</p>
                        <p>I love stylized art styles, and pixel art is a style that I find particularly charming. But making good pixel
                            art is very difficult, especially animated pixel art. So as a graphics programmer, I wanted to see if I
                            could create a rendering pipeline that renders pixel art directly from a 3D scene.
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                        <h2>Developing a Physically-Based Path Tracer (CG24 Project Report)</h2>
                        <p class="date">13. February 2025</p>
                        <p>The final project of the computer graphics course at ETH is to develop a physically-based path
                            tracer. In this report, I explain the techniques I used to implement features for my own
                            path tracer and how I designed the final scene, which got me first place in the 2024 Rendering Competition.
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                        <h2>Reverse Engineering Blender's AgX Tonemapper</h2>
                        <p class="date">25. September 2024</p>
                        <p>Blender 4 introduced AgX as the default tone mapper, offering better handling of
                            high-intensity colors. While integrating it into my own projects, I struggled with its
                            LUT-based implementation and chose to create my own approximation, focusing on visual appeal
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                        <h2>Designing Beautiful Worlds with Procedural Texture Generation</h2>
                        <p class="date">29. January 2023</p>
                        <p>In this project I tried to procedurally generate visually appealing 3D renders of planets and
                            stars.
                            By layering a bunch of noise functions we can create complex textures that resemble space.
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                <h2>More Posts Coming Soon!</h2>
                <p>I am currently working on various projects for this blog. These range from making video games to
                    goofing around with AI to reinventing math. Expect to see some cool stuff soon!
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