Lecture Handouts

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 NT, 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. For a summary of the applets with credit given to the authors or institutions, visit the applets page.

 

Topic	Title	Extras
1	Displays and Frame Buffers	Vector Displays, Raster Displays, LCD, Paper on LCD & CRT properties
2	Image Processing	Image warp, Continuous 1D convolution, Discrete 1D convolution, Snoop
3	Affine Transformations	Change of basis, Affine Transformation Game,
4	Hierarchical Modeling	Hierarchy of transformations
5	Projections	Perspective Camera Transformations,  Hitchcock
6	Hidden surfaces	Z-buffer, BSP trees
7	Shading	OpenGL shading applet, Szymon's BRDF viewer
8	Ray Tracing
9	Anti-aliased and accelerated ray tracing	Nyquist limit
10	Distribution ray tracing
11	Texture mapping	Texture Mapping Primitives, Procedural Textures
12	Parametric curves	Tcl/Tk curve demos (zip file)
13	Particle systems	Physically Based Modeling course Cloth, Fish, Snake
13a	Particle systems for Animator
14	C2-interpolating curves
15	Parametric surfaces	Bézier patch interactive demonstration
16	Subdivision curves and surfaces	Triangular subdivision surfaces
15	Principles of animation	Perlin walkers Character animation: principles and practice