Arne Schmitz is graduate student at the Computer Graphics Group of the RWTH Aachen University. He received his diploma in Computer Science in 2005 from the same university. His research topics include global illumination and
radio wave propagation. Both topics are closely related, while illumination deals with visible light, radio waves have much lower frequencies and behave very similarly. Both topics can be modelled by raytracing techniques, which
are of course time consuming. Therefore one goal is to make these techniques more efficient, or even interactive. At the moment Arne is working on realtime global illumination techniques and also on faster radio wave propagation algorithms.
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This presentation will show a short overview of how Blender is used at the Computer Graphics Group of the RWTH Aachen University. The talk will focus on the modelling and simulation of urban scenarios for mobile network wave propagation. But it will also show how Blender is used for modelling scenes for a homegrown global illumination renderer and for producing supplementary videos for conference submissions. The main issue is always that of exporting the data in a suitable format. We have chosen to use the Yafray XML language to export scenarios since it is human-readable and easily parsable. We will present what pitfalls we encountered, what strengths Blender has over other tools, and what results we have produced with it that have been published on peer reviewed conferences.