NILO STOLTE
GRAPHICS
Research
In
this
section,
a
list
of
previous
selected
research
work
in
computer
graphics
area,
published
in
scientific
journals,
books
and
international
conferences
is
shown.
This
research
work
is,
among
other
domains,
in
ray-tracing,
3D
visualization,
voxelization,
robust
voxelization,
octree,
3D
rendering,
implicit
surfaces,
point
rendering,
interval
arithmetic, and parallel processing.
Recent
research
and
development
work
in
2D
vector
graphics
to
use
in
Graphics
User
Interfaces
is
explained
here
and
detailed
in
the next sections.
Tech Writing
In
this
section,
a
list
of
my
recent
authored
texts
in
the
tech
area,
many
published
on
Substack,
is
shown.
Clicking
on
an
entry
redirects
to
a
new
page
containing
the
full
text.
This
material
mostly
deals
with
some
stories
about
my
professional
experiences,
as
well
as
views
in
the
Computer
Science
area
in
general,
such
as,
but
not
limited
to,
algorithms, programming languages, etc.
This
is
more
general
and
not
as
formal
as
my scientific articles in
Research
.
Vector GUIs
The
main
idea
proposed
in
this
site
is
to
use
basic
vector
graphics
primitives
to
create
Graphics
User
Interfaces
that
can
be
used
everywhere,
with
no
or
little
need
of
code
modification
as
a
way
to
obtain
portability
and
compatibility
among
quite
different screen resolutions.
A
f
t
e
r
fe
w
d
e
ce
n
n
i
a
ls
of
experi
e
n
ce
i
n
vector
graphics
and
observing
that
these
basic
primitives
look
very
much
alike,
the
idea
that
the
same
design
could
be
very
easily
converted
to
other
platforms
became
quite
clear.
Automatic
code
generation
becomes also a possibility.
Vector Art
Vector graphics allows styles widely known
in graphics design for quite a long time. It
is very popular for commercial use, such as
in logos, labels and advertisements. These
designs are generally flat, but near realistic
designs gain popularity with the advent of
digital vector art.
Here are some of vector creations of mine
in beer labels (for my prior brewery), icons,
illustrations, designs, etc. In some of these
examples I explain the steps taken on the
creation as well as their inspiration. A more
complete list can be found on my
Github
.
Freebies
This section is dedicated to Open Source
software I have written and that are offered
for free under GNU Lesser Public License.
The software is offered as is and it’s by no
means guaranteed and not subject to any
claims concerning prejudices of any form.
It’s the responsibility of the users to check
the source code. The software is free from
malicious code, but users must judge its
usefulness and its safety by themselves.
The programming languages used in each
program are indicated as well as the link to
the GitHub repository and a description of
what the program does.
Examples
This
section
is
dedicated
to
examples
of
vector
graphics
use
on
the
web
as
well
as
on desktops, mobiles, and embedded.
Section
under
contruction
where
I
show
some
methods
and
technologies
I
have
experimented
with
user
interfaces
built
with
vector
graphics
primitives.
It
started
with
Java,
then
JS
with
HTML
5
Canvas,
JS
with
SVG,
etc.
Nowadays,
experimental
use
of
GPU
shaders
is
also
going
on.
Many
more
examples
can
be
seen
in
my
GitHub
repositories
which
includes
my
work
with
vector
fonts
using
PDFBox,
FreeHEP
and
JS to parse fonts offline.
