CG-Projects

Taiki Yoshino

I’m fourth-year CSE major student at UC San Diego. Project Page

Course Projects

Mar 19, 2024 Ray Tracing

• Used Tools: C++, OpenGL
• Ray tracing from scratch
• Transformation of spheres and triangles
• A single point light source.
• Bounding Volume Hierarchy

   
 

Jun 11, 2024 Physically Based Rendering

• Used Tools: C++, CUDA, OptiX 6.5,
• Simple Path Tracing with GPU
• Area light sources
• Analitic & Monte Carlo solution
• Global Illumination
• Next Event Estimation
• Russian Roulette
• Importance Sampling

   
 

Feb 13, 2025 Keyframe Animation

• Used Tools: C++, OpenGL, ImGUI
• Skeleton and froward kinematics
• Character Skin
• Keyframe Animation
• Tangent Interpolation,
• Extrapolation

 
   

Feb 27, 2025 Cloth Simulation

• Used Tools: C++, OpenGL
• Cloth made from Particles
• Uniform Gravity
• Spring Elasticity
• Damping
• Aerodynamic Drag
• Simple Ground Plane Collisions

 
 
 

Mar 11, 2025 SPH Fluids

• Used Tools: C++, OpenGL
• Particle Based Fluid
• Navier-Stokes Equation
• Pressure, Viscosity, Gravity
• Neighbor Search with Uniform Grids
• Wall Plane Repulsion Collision

   
 

Jan 23, 2026 Disny Principled BSDF

• Used Tools: C++, lajolla renderer
• Diffuse
• Metal
• Clearcoat
• Glass
• Sheen

 
   

Feb 11, 2026 Volumetric Path Tracing

• Used Tools: C++, lajolla renderer
• Multiple Scattering
• Homogeneous & Heterogeneous Media
• Next Event Estimation
• Multiple Importance Sampling
• Chromatic Media

 
   

Research & Intern Project

June 5, 2019 Mirage Simulation

• Physics Research on Hot Road Mirage
• Taiki Yoshino
• Advisors: Kajio Takihiro
• Super Science High School Program @ Uto High School
• Reproduced a parabola-like light path on a small scale.

 
   

March 1, 2020 Refractive Index

• Physics Research on Refractive Index of Aqueous Solution
• Eito Kubota, Taiki Yoshino, Nanami Shikai
• Advisors: Kajio Takihiro
• Physics Club @ Uto High School
• Discovered a simple method for measuring
  the refractive index & concentration of an aqueous solution.

 
   

Jun 11, 2024 NeRF-Slang

• Evaluating Slang for View Synthesis
• David Choi, Taiki Yoshino, Rick Rodness, Hayden Kwok
• Advisors: Ravi Ramamoorthi, Tzu Mao Li
• Early Research Scholars Program @ UCSD
• Reimplementation of NeRF & 3DGS in a new shading language Slang.

 
     

Feb 27, 2025 HotSpot

• HotSpot: Signed Distance Function Optimization
  with an Asymptotically Sufficient Condition
• Zimo Wang, Cheng Wang, Taiki Yoshino, Sirui Tao, Ziyang Fu, Tzu-Mao Li
• CVPR 2025
• Neural SDF optimization with heat method.

 
 

Sep 30, 2025 PDI-Intern

• Graphics Enginner Intern at Polyphony Digital
• Implementd five 3DCG tasks with my two mentors.
  (Bidirectional Path Tracing, Screen-Space Filter, Texture Baking for
  Translucency, Multi-Scattering BSDF,Rendering Mirage)

 
   
 

Dec 10, 2025 QI-Intern

• Game Development Intern at Qualcomm Institute
• Developed three VR mini-games using UE5.

 
 

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