Lecture Notes and Applets

Here are online copies of the slides used in lectures. Please avoid printing them out! We always make enough printed copies for the whole class; if you missed one, there are probably extra copies in the filing cabinet in the graphics instructional lab. Look there first rather than wasting paper. Note also that Acrobat files are eminently readable online.

If you must print out a section of slides, try to print double-sided. Under UNIX, this typically involves adding an option like "-ZDuplex=DuplexNoTumble" to your lpr command. Under Windows, it's an option in the "advanced" tab of the print properties dialog. For the option "print on both sides", select "Long Side".

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

 

Topic	Slides	Mark-up	Extras
1	Displays and frame buffers	Displays and frame buffers	Vector displays, Raster displays, LCD displays, OLED displays
2	Image processing	Image processing	Image warp, Continuous 1D convolution, Discrete 1D convolution, Snoop
3	Affine transformations	Affine transformations	Change of basis , Affine transformation game
4	Hierarchical modeling	Hierarchical modeling	Hierarchy of transformations, Robot Arm Example
5	Projections	Projections	Hitchcock effect
6	Hidden surfaces	Hidden surfaces	Z-buffer, BSP Trees
7	Shading	Shading	OpenGL shading applet, Szymon's BRDF viewer
8	Ray tracing	Ray tracing	Photon mapping, Triangle intersections, Reflection/refraction applet
9	Anti-aliased and accelerated ray tracing	Anti-aliased and accelerated ray tracing	Nyquist limit
10	Distribution ray tracing	Distribution ray tracing
11	Texture mapping	Texture mapping	Texture mapping primitives, Marble applet, Mip-map animation
12	Parametric curves	Parametric curves	Tcl/Tk curve demos (zip file), Bezier curves, B-splines, Curve interpolation, C2-Interpolating curves
13	Particle systems	Particle systems	Differential equation basics, Particle system dynamics, Cloth, Fish, Snake, Cloth demo, Soda constructor,
14	Parametric surfaces	Parametric surfaces	Bézier patch interactive demonstration
15	Subdivision curves and surfaces	Subdivision curves and surfaces	Triangular subdivision surfaces, Subdivision tutorials and online demos
16	Animation principles		Lasseter paper on animation principles, Tutorial on animation principles (with videos), Perlin walkers, Pixar shorts
17	Final exam notes