BarthSextic
Steve Trettel
| Medium | Custom GPU path tracer for algebraic varieties. |
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| The Art | A path traced image of the Barth Sextic algebraic variety. The path tracer aims to compute physically correct material properties, lighting, and reflections. | The Math | An algebraic variety is the set of zeroes of a polynomial equation. Sometimes these are smooth manifolds, and other times they have singularities, which look like the vertices of double cones here in dimension 2. The Barth Sextic is a 6th degree projective variety which has a maximal number of singularities (65) for its degree. |
| Categories | GPU Computing, Path tracing, Algebraic Geometry, Physics Simulation |
