Lecture Notes and Applets

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

 

Topic	Slides	Mark-up	Additional handouts	Demos
1	Displays and frame buffers  (3D displays)	Displays and frame buffers  (3D displays)	Displays text	EM waves, Polarization, Polarizers, LCD displays, OLED displays
2	Image processing	Image processing	Image processing text	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		Dolly zoom effect app, Dolly zoom effect in movies, Z-buffer
6	Shading	Shading		OpenGL shading applet, Szymon's BRDF viewer
7	Texture mapping	Texture mapping		Texture mapping primitives, Marble applet
8	Ray tracing	Ray tracing	Ray tracing text Triangle intersections	Photon mapping, 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	Parametric curves	Parametric curves		Tcl/Tk curve demos (zip file), Bezier curves, B-splines, Curve interpolation, C2-Interpolating curves
12	Particle systems	Particle systems	Differential equation basics, Particle system dynamics	Cloth, Fish, Snake, Cloth demo, Soda constructor,
13	Parametric surfaces	Parametric surfaces		Bézier patch interactive demonstration
14	Subdivision curves and surfaces	Subdivision curves and surfaces	Subdivision text	Triangular subdivision surfaces, Subdivision tutorials and online demos
15	Animation principles		Lasseter paper on animation principles	Tutorial on animation principles (with videos), Perlin walkers, Pixar shorts
16	Final exam notes