Project 1: Matt Schwartz

[mzschwartz5]

Features implemented:

• Naive (brute-force) algorithm
• Uniform scattered grid
• Coherent uniform grid
• Bonus: grid-looping optimization

Note: I implemented the grid-looping optimization before realizing it was extra, so I wasn't able to test the 8 vs. 27 grid cell check approach. That said, the grid-looping optimization I implemented does a distance check to omit neighboring cells that are too far away, so to some extent, my cell-width testing also answered these questions implicitly.

Feedback:

• Figures in instructions are impossible to read in github dark mode (my eyes!)
• The TODO comments in the code are a bit ambiguous for my taste. Often, I felt that I knew what to do after reading the instructions, only to be thoroughly by the code comments. After some head scratching, it turned out my intuition was correct from the start.
• Definitely could have used a demo on using NVIDIA NSight debugging + profiling tools before starting this. I relied on homemade methods instead, which I'm sure are far worse.