erkaman

Some months ago, I interviewed for a job as a junior graphics programmer for various game companies, in order to break into the industry. Since computer graphics is a very niche field, there is not very much information out there on what questions are common during an interview for such a job. So I decided to compile this little list of common questions, and to write some general advice about how you can prepare for the interview. Hope someone finds this useful. :)

yeah, radial basis functions are awesome :)

global refinement and unrefinement steps are unnecessary, yes. It just makes the implementation of the demo so much easier. It is possible to only refine the patch, and then fuse the patch with the original mesh, and then global refinement is not necessary. But this is actually surprisingly tricky to robustly implement in practice, and did not implement it mostly due to time restrictions, and to keep the demo code short and readable.

Yeah, I think it's heavily inspired by that yes. Many techniques in geometry processing take heavy inspiration by image processing techniques.

I also appreciate the provided references.

I agree with you mostly. I just think that this is an interesting usage of variational calculus, which is not that well understood by other programmers, so I wanted to write this article about this, in order to introduce other programmers to the topic.

And also because I thought the literature about this out there wasn't really that readable, and I always think there is value in writing expository texts like this.

yes, the mask is also pretty important. otherwise, you get lots of stuff from the background of your source image in your blended image, which often looks pretty bad.

since the technique is so simple, it's probably not hard at all to include into GIMP. Wouldn't surprise me if someone had already implemented a plugin for it.