Károly Zsolnai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Károly Zsolnai
Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology
MSc graduate, Computer Science major

Advisor: László Szirmay-Kalos

E-mail: mfbyanv@vvg.ozr.uh (rot13'd), or this

Name pronunciation: Károly Zsolnai (add the i like 'e' in english)

I have moved to TU Vienna.

Courses

Rendering (2013), held together with Thomas Auzinger at TU Vienna - student feedbacks [eng text] - new!

Algorithms and Complexity (2012), held together with Katalin Friedl
a course on parallel, quantum and genetic algorithms (and more) for Mathematician MSc students and MSc Computer Science majors

Software Laboratory IV (2012) - student works for my course are available here. Be sure to watch this and this!
- student feedbacks [hun full text] [eng full text]
fourth semester lab course in system design and development for Computer Engineering students

Software Laboratory IV (2011) - student feedbacks [hun stat and full text] [eng stat and full text]
Software Laboratory IV (2010)

Reviewing work

Secrets of the universe
in an understandable way

Papers

	Automatic Parameter Control for Metropolis Light Transport [paper (4-page)] [paper (15-page)] [additional materials] [bibtex] - new! A method to find optimal parameter settings for the Metropolis Light Transport algorithm. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2013, Short Paper) Károly Zsolnai, László Szirmay-Kalos (2013)
	Real-time simulation and control of Newtonian fluids using the Navier-Stokes equations - [paper] [video] [EG poster] [EG 2-page] [code] [bibtex] - new! A simple method to control fluids into pre-defined shapes in real time. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2013, Poster) Károly Zsolnai, László Szirmay-Kalos (2013)}

	Procedural Generation of Hand-drawn like Line Art [paper] [video] [page] [bibtex] An algorithm for rendering artistic drawings from computer generated models. Tamás Umenhoffer, Milán Magdics, Károly Zsolnai (2011)
	Real time fluid simulation and control using the Navier-Stokes equations - [thesis] [code] MSc thesis (2012)
	Procedural Brush Synthesis Using Markov Fields for Motion Picture Production [thesis] [page] Won 'Best BSc Thesis' award in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics in year 2011. BSc thesis (2010)

Projects

	LuxRender I am a LuxRender developer. Take a look at the gallery! Infographics on the 1.0 release are available here. Some scenes are available here. You can use them in your research paper if you give credit to the name given in the author.txt file.
	Smallpaint [page] [png] A global illumination renderer in less than 250 lines of C++ code. It can be compiled into a 4 kilobyte binary file. You can see the contents of the .exe file here. [picture]
	A parallel genetic algorithm for Roger Alsing's EvoLisa problem [code+binary] [comparison image] [video] In less than 400 effective lines of C++ code, mostly for educational purposes It is used in the "Algorithms and Complexity" course.
	A fast genetic algorithm for the 0-1 knapsack problem [page] [talk] In less than 150 effective lines of C++ code.
	Egill: The Last Pagan [imdb] [battle scene] Worked on mathematical algorithms in this movie.

Talks

A talk on cluster analysis and the wavelet transform at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (CS department) in Hungarian / [pdf]
A talk on genetic algorithms at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (CS department) in Hungarian / [pdf]
Presentation material for KÉPAF'2011 in Hungarian / [ppt]

Music

I have arranged and played an orchestra version of Colors of the Wind, the famous Disney hit song. Available in three formats - [YouTube] [mp3] [flac] - new!
My precious little Music Blog in Hungarian.