Contrary to popular opinion, i'm actually more of a programmer than a photographer. But It is hard to show programming in any simple form. Here is a screenshot of one of the projects i have been working on.

This has been built from scratch, from the ground up, in C++. This demo is not to show content, but framework. There are a lot of things going on in the background in the code, the engine is fully capable of displaying high-poly normal mapped objects. I only use a simple cube here to illustrate the concept.

What you see on screen is my the beginnings of my "Focus Study" which will be a 6-month personal research project. My topic is realtime High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting (see Debevec). It is only in it's first 3 month development phase.

Download: [link]





Project Details
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Over 200 files of source code
Over 3 months in developement (1 man army)
Written in C++, with a Win32 Interface using Direct3D API and HLSL shaders
Homemade math library
Multipass rendering (bloom, gauss filter, phong lighting, normal mapping, downsampling, tone mapping)
FMOD-based stereo sound
Custom binary 3D model format (soon to have fully interpolated skeletal animation)
Scenegraph & heirarchical bounding sphere view frustrum culling


Things to Notice
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The cube has only 6 faces (press '1' to view wireframe), but it has full normal mapping to simulate a high-detail model using the GPU via a pixel shader, making it far more efficient and "pretty & shiny".
The W,A,S,D & C/Space keys move around the camera.
There is a slight blooming effect from the bright spots on the snow and the cube, especially noticeble when the sun is overshadowing the objects.
There are multiple sounds playing on multiple channels in stereo in the background


!IMPORTANT!
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I tested this on demo on a Pentium 4 (3.7ghz) laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 and 1 gb of RAM (it runs at a steady 250fps). I am designing it for future system specs, and thus it will probably not run without the latest graphics card and system. You can give it a shot though.