Research Projects

The CVC Laboratory has a wide range of research interests, as can be seen in our projects listed below.

Our current projects are arranged in terms of the three research groups that make up the CVC lab. The academic level of the work is indicated in square brackets.

Modelling Interest Group

• Automated Extraction of Radio Astronomical Sources from Observation Data Using the Graphics Hardware - Scott Badenhorst [MSc]
  
  
• GPU-based Acceleration of Radio Interferometry Image Synthesis - Richard Baxter [MSc]
  
  
• Accelerated Crowd Modelling - Jason Brownbridge [MSc]
  
  
• Lattice Boltzmann Liquid Simulation with Moving Objects on Graphics Hardware - Duncan Clough [MSc]
  
  
• Computational Tools for Protein-Protein Interface Analysis - Marco Gallotta [MSc]
  
  
• Developing Methodologies to Elucidate Carbohydrate Conformation of Pneumococcal Antigens - Neann Mathai [MSc]
  
  
• Accelerated Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Protein-Protein Docking - Adrianna Pińska [MSc]
  
  
• Fast Galactic Structure Finding Using GPUs - Daniel Wood [MSc]
  
  

Procedural Interest Group

• Realistic Terrain Synthesis using Graphics Hardware - Justin Crause [MSc]
  
  
• Procedural Generation of Spacecraft Using Shape Grammars - Zacharia Crumley [MSc]
  
  
• Procedural Generation and Real-time Rendering of Forests - Julian Kenwood [MSc]
  
  
• GPU-Based Level of Detail System for the Real-Time Simulation and Rendering of Granular Terrain - Craig Leach [MSc]
  
  
• Field D* Pathfinding on Triangulated and Tetrahedral Meshes - Simon Perkins [PhD]
  
  
• Procedural Methods for the Modelling and Simulation of Large Environments - Rudy Neeser [PhD]
  
  
• Path Planning in Weighted Regions - Keegan Carruthers-Smith [MSc]
  
  
• Distributed Texture-Based Terrain Synthesis - Flora Tasse [MSc]
  
  
• Volumetric Clouds Generation by Chinese Painting - Chen Wei [PhD]
  
  

Virtual Environments Group

• Perceived Expectations of Virtual Environments - Bertus Labuschagne [PhD]
  
  
• Designing Interactive Digital Storytelling as Cultural Heritage: Preserving experience narratives at the District Six Museum - Ilda Ladeira [PhD]
  
  
• Flow and Presence in Games: Flow as a Companion Theory to Presence Theory to Explain User Experience in Games - Darren Steward [MSc]