CS5310 Computer Graphics

Professor Harriet Fell

• Overview
• Schedule
• Powerpoint slides for lectures will appear during the semester.

  Lectures

  Overview, History, RGB Color, PPM files, Math Basics ppt (5.2 MB) pdf (3.6 MB)

  Simple Ray Tracing (Casting), Transformations ppt (2.6 MB) pdf (2 MB)

  Viewing, Reflection, and Refraction ppt (2.5 MB) pdf (2.5 MB)

  Lines, Circles, Ray/Plane Intersection ppt (2.3 MB) pdf (973 KB)

  Bump Maps, Texture Maps, 2D Clipping ppt (3.9 MB) pdf (3.6 5B)

  Splines, Bicubic Surfaces, Quadrics ppt (4.8 MB) pdf (4.5 5B)

  PolyMesh, Noise and Turbulence ppt (4.3 MB) pdf (1.9 5B)

  More Noise, Gouraud and Phong Shading, Color Science ppt (7.6 MB) pdf (7.4 5B)

  Morphing, Fractals ppt (6.0 MB) pdf (4.1 5B)

  Animation, Quaternions

• Assignments
  Abstracts for Possible Final Presentations
  The images below should give you an idea of the work students do in this course.
  Final Presntations Spring 2011
  Final Presntations Spring 2009
  Final Presntations Spring 2007

  Assignment	Student Images
  0					Summer 2001	Winter 2000	Winter 1999	Winter 1998	Winter 1997	Spring 1996
  1	Spring 2011	Spring 2009	Spring 2007	Spring 2006	Summer 2001	Winter 2000	Winter 1999	Winter 1998	Winter 1997	Spring 1996
  2	Spring 2011	Spring 2009	Spring 2007	Spring 2006	Summer 2001	Winter 2000	Winter 1999	Winter 1998	Winter 1997	Spring 1996
  3	Spring 2011	Spring 2009	Spring 2007	Spring 2006	Summer 2001	Winter 2000	Winter 1999	Winter 1998	Winter 1997	Spring 1996
  4	Spring 2011	Spring 2009	Spring 2007	Spring 2006	Summer 2001	Winter 2000	Winter 1999	Winter 1998		Spring 1996

• Building a Ray-Tracer
  • Building a Ray-Tracer, Page 1
    Ambient Light, Diffuse Light, Shadows
    
  • Building a Ray-Tracer, Page 2
    Reflection, Specular Reflection, Bump Maps, Texture, Polygons
    
  • Building a Ray-Tracer, Page 3
    Two Light Sources, Transparency with and without Refraction, Quadrics
    
  • Program Shell for a Recursive Ray-Tracer
• Noise and Turbulence
  • The original C code by Ken Perlin: perlin.h and perlin.c.
  • Noise and Turbulence by Ken Perlin
  • Perlin Noise by Hugo Elias
  • Linear 2D Noise Image Samples
    These were generated with old Pascal code.
  • Linear 2D Noise Code (C++)
    
• Graphics Information on the Net
  • Crossroads Summer 1997 ACM Student Magazine - Computer Graphics Issue
  • Color Science: Spectra and Chromaticity pictures and Fortran Code; Links to more color information
  • RGB Hex Triplet Color Chart
  • The Graphics File Formats Page
  • Michigan Technological University CS390-2 Raytracing Hall of Fame
  • CreativeHeads - Computer Graphics Jobs
  • Computer Graphics Timeline
• Other Graphics Stuff on the Net
  • Johan's Trip to Earth and on.
  • List of Colors Used to Draw The Simpsons
  • Harriet Fell's Mathematical Images
  • Dave Korman's Spectacular Ray Tracing Disasters

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