Zdravko Velinov
Graphics Research Person
Biography
I work as a R&D programmer at Creative Assembly Sofia (SEGA Black Sea Ltd.), subsidiary of SEGA. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at Disney Research Los Angeles. Even further in the past, I was a graphics/engine programmer on Victor Vran and Tropico 5 and additional programmer on Surviving Mars: Green Planet at Haemimont Games. I have also done additional programming work on Ivent Games' Strength of the Sword Ultimate. I was interested in wire-speed packet capturing and analysis when I was an undergrad and to some extent when I was a graduate student before I started my PhD studies.
- Real-Time Rendering
- Physically Based Rendering
- Digital Material Appearance
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PhD in Computer Graphics, 2019
University of Bonn
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MSc in Telecommunications, 2014
Technical University of Sofia
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BSc in Telecommunications, 2012
Technical University of Sofia
Posts
Projects
Tempest Renderer
Tempest renderer is a research rendering framework used for studying material appearance both for real-time and offline rendering applications.
RCDCap
Creator
Strength of the Sword Ultimate
D3D11 porting
Tropico 5
Graphics engine development and maintenance (deposition, SSR, culling, graphics API backend, overlays, render packet queuing, water, fog of war).
Surviving Mars: Green Planet
I performed additional work on skeletal animation compression, UI/font BC7 compression and particle systems in the UI system.
Victor Vran
Graphics engine development and maintenance (particle systems, decals, SAO, shading, graphics API backend, GUIs, water).
