Nathan Morrical

Nate Morrical is a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, intern alumni from the NVIDIA OptiX team and Pixar’s RenderMan group and a current member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI). His research interests include high-performance ray-tracing frameworks and computing, scientific data visualization, computational geometry, and real-time ray tracing. Before joining SCI, Nate received his B.S. in computer science from Idaho State University, where he researched interactive computer graphics and computational geometry.
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Posts by Nathan Morrical

Content Creation / Rendering Dec 17, 2021

Rendering in Real Time with Spatiotemporal Blue Noise Textures, Part 2

In the first post, Rendering in Real Time with Spatiotemporal Blue Noise, Part 1,  we introduced the time axis and importance sampling to blue noise... 17 MIN READ
Content Creation / Rendering Dec 17, 2021

Rendering in Real Time with Spatiotemporal Blue Noise Textures, Part 1

Blue noise textures are useful for providing per-pixel random values to make noise patterns in renderings. Blue noise textures are harder to see and easier to... 11 MIN READ