Computer Graphics, Fall 2009

Lecture 21: Overview of the field of Computer Graphics and current problems.

Lecture 20: Catmull-Rom Curves for smooth camera motion.

Lecture 19: Description of how depth buffers can be used to render shadows.

Lecture 18: Ground plane shadows and shadow volumes are described.

Lecture 17: The Catmill-Clark subdivision algorithm for generating surfaces is described.

Lecture 16: Extension of Chaikin's curves to construct surfaces.

Lecture 15: A Ray Tracing algorithm is described.

Lecture 14: Painter's and Wornock's algorithms are described.

Lecture 13: Chaikin and Bezier curves are used to construct surfaces.

Lecture 12: A Scan Conversion Algorithm is described.

Lecture 11: Building complex graphics objects from basic polygons.

Lecture 10: Methods of shading and texturing are described.

Lecture 09: The application of Unit Quaternions to rotations

Lecture 08: The RGB axis and color space.

Lecture 07: Determining if an object is in front of or behind another object.

Lecture 06: The clipping algorithm and the viewing pipeline.

Lecture 05: The pinhole camera model and associated transform matrix.

Lecture 04: Model-View-Controller and rotations of objects in 3D space.

Lecture 03: The matrices that are used to move objects in space.

Lecture 02: Generating curves with a computer.

Lecture 01: Preliminary background into some of the math associated with computer graphics.

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