Lecture Notes and Applets

Each lecture is provided in PDF format. In addition, the "extras" column contains links to relevant web pages and applets.

 

Slides

Mark-up Additional handouts Extras
Displays and
frame buffers
1pp  4pp   Vector Displays, Raster Displays,
LCD Displays
, OLED Displays,
LCD Monitor Deconstruction (YouTube)
Image processing 1pp  4pp Image processing text Continuous 1D Convolution,
Discrete 1D convolutionSnoop, YIQ filtering,
Photoshop plugin for bilateral filter
Affine transformations 1pp  4pp   Change of basis,
Affine Transformation Game  
Hierarchical modeling 1pp  4pp   Hierarchy of transformations,
Robot Arm Example
Surfaces of revolution 1pp  4pp    
Shading 1pp  4pp   OpenGL shading applet,
Szymon's BRDF viewer
Texture mapping 1pp  4pp   Texture Mapping Primitives,
Marble Applet,
Projections 1pp  4pp   Hitchcock Effect
Ray tracing 1pp  4pp Ray tracing text,
Triangle intersections
Photon Mapping,
Reflection/Refraction Applet
Anti-aliased, accelerated
ray tracing
1pp  4pp   Nyquist Limit
Distribution ray tracing 1pp  4pp    
Parametric curves 1pp  4pp   Tcl/Tk curve demos, Bezier Curves,
B-Splines, Curve Interpolation,
C2 interpolating curves
Particle Systems 1pp  4pp Differential equation basics,
Particle system dynamics
Particle-Dreams, Cloth, Fish, Snake, Cloth Demo,
Soda Constructor,
Parametric surfaces 1pp  4pp   Bezier patch interactive demonntration
Subdivision curves
and surfaces
1pp  4pp Subdivision text Triangular Subdivision Surfaces
Pixar video explanation
Animation principles   Lasseter paper on animation principles Perlin Walkers, Pixar Shorts
Final exam notes