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Advanced Graphics
Advanced Graphics
2002-03
Principal lecturer:
Dr Neil Dodgson
(
nad@cl.cam.ac.uk
)
Taken by:
Part II
Core course information
Syllabus
Past exam questions
:
Advanced Graphics
[1998-1999,2002] and
Advanced Graphics and HCI
[2000-2001]
The Study Guide
in HTML
Some Mathematical Elements of Graphics (SMEG)
in PDF
Powerpoint slides (lectures 3 and 5) in PDF
(542 kB). The
Poweroint presentation is
also available as a self-running presentation
; this allows you to view the animations if you have a Windows PC. Both of these are only available from within the .cam.ac.uk domain.
Exercise sets
Exercises for the first supervision
Exercises for the second supervision
Useful web sites
A
gallery of ray traced images
at
ART
.
A
wide range of instructional materials
covering various areas in Computer Graphics, provided by
SIGGRAPH
.
An
applet
which demonstrates how the ray tracing algorithm works.
Bezier
and
B-Spline
applets with which you can play to get more intuition as to how these things work, provided by
the Computer Science department at Technion
.
There is a nice
discussion of past and current research in implicit surfaces and CSG
provided by
Brian Wyvill
.
For practical experience of ray tracing, download and play with either
POVray
(
http://www.povray.org/
) or
Rayshade
(
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~cek/rayshade/
).
An
overview of radiosity
provided by
SIGGRAPH
.
A
gallery of research images including a number of seminal radiosity images
and
information on the Cornell Box
provided by
the Cornell University program of computer graphics
.