Fields of work and interest

Participant of the ASA Alpbach Summer School 1992 (talk on Raytracing with hyperbolic light paths)

The Deep Universe (1993), A.R. Sandage, R.G. Kron, M.S. Longair, Saas-Fee Advanced Course, Les Diablerets (CH)

Participant of the ASA Alpbach Summer School 1995

Participant at the 179. WE-Heraeus-Seminar - BLACK HOLES: THEORY AND OBSERVATION

Siggraph'98 (Orlando, FL)

Supercomputing'99 (Portland, OR)

SCART 2000 (Zuerich, CH) Science and Art 2000 -- 3rd International Conference on the Interaction of Art and Fluid Mechanics

Igrid 2000 (Yokohama, Japan) An International Grid Application Research Demonstration at I N E T

HPDC 2000 (Pittsburgh, PA) Conference on High Performance Distributed Computing

Computer related

C the script of my local C-Course (4MB, PDF, german only) Also available as TeX .dvi [gzipped, 110KB ] from here. The Piggy Metafont Sources are required in your Metafont path for viewing the .dvi file. Postscript files from the most recent course (german only!): (a quite complete description of C and all of its features, with example programs)

C++ - get the script of my local C++-Course (273kB dvi-file, german only) [ gzipped, 77KB ] from here. Also Postscript ("Von der Klammer bis zum Raytracing" - with some introduction on how to do Raytracing in C++, basic structures) [Also available as pdf, although of less quality].

Raytracing in C++ - Please have a look to the special page dedicated to this field.

Other Activities - These have also been swapped out to a separate page for some reasons.

I am fan of Arntraud (the one and only - Online Goddess and the most incredible girl in the UNIverse),

the Work of Vangelis,

Jean Michel Jarre,

Phillip Glass,

Mike Oldfield,

Twin Peaks,

M. C. Escher,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

Johann Sebastian Bach,

Arosa?

Ernst Jandl

the great Terra Chips!

and of all people, who can do things that I can't do, even if I would like to do them.

And I don't like people who wake me up, independent of wether I'm daydreaming or nightdreaming...