My intrigue for shader programming hasn't left me, but the semester is nearing to a close and things are very busy now. But we had a final project in my Rendering class where we were required to implement either bump mapping or environment mapping and I chose the latter.
I've been really interested in mathematical shapes. I wanted to implement a 3D Julia set but I can only use VBOs to implement the geometry and the professor thought it would be too difficult, so I implemented a torus knot instead. It wasn't easy either but at least it was doable.
I'll attach a video later but here's a screenshot:
Basically the camera rotates around the knot and the knot rotates along two of its axes. It looks pretty cool, I wish I was able to implement clouds in the fragment shader and it would be really cool.
