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.

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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 convolutionSnoop

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