| | Advanced Graphics 2008–09
Principal lecturer: Dr Alex Benton Taken by: Part II Syllabus
Past exam questions are in two different places:
98,99, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07
and 00, 01
Lecture notes and source code
Note about the demos: Several of the PowerPoint slideshows above use
Microsoft's ActiveX Web Control to embed local web pages into the slideshow.
Each such demo is linked separately above but if you would like to download all
of the HTML files for the demos and see them in the context of the PowerPoint
slides, then you should download this .zip file and
place its contents in a folder named 'demos' at the same level as where you've
locally saved the PowerPoint slides.
I recommend viewing the javascript demos in
Chrome or Firefox 3 for best performance.
Exercises
Useful web sites
Really good books
- Watt, A. (1999). 3D Computer Graphics. Addison-Wesley (3rd ed).
- Foley, J.D., van Dam, A., Feiner, S.K. & Hughes, J.F. (1990). Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).
- de Berg, M., Cheong, O., van Kreveld, M. & Overmars, M. (2008). Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications. Springer (3rd ed.).
- Rost, R. (2006). OpenGL Shading Language. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed).
General
OpenGL
- OpenGL.org, the central site for OpenGL including ample documentation
- Neon Helium Productions, hosting an excellent set of GL tutorials
Ray tracing
- Geoff Wyvill, Practical Ray Tracing - Part One, University of Otago (1995)
- Geoff Wyvill, Practical Ray Tracing - Part Two, University of Otago (1995)
- A gallery of ray traced images at ART.
- Software to play with:
- A simple javascript ray tracer, compiled from Java with the Google Web Toolkit.
- An applet which demonstrates how the ray tracing algorithm works.
- POV-Ray, an oft-used shareware package
- Rayshade at Stanford
Beziers, B-splines and NURBS
Subdivision
- The subdivision.org
website is a good compliment to the book "Subdivision Methods For Geometric
Design: A Constructive Approach" by Joe Warren and Henrik Weimer. It
has a short tutorial on subdivision and Java applets illustrating both
curve and surface subdivision.
Implicits and CSG
- Brian Wyvill's presentation on implicit
surfaces from the University of Calgary.
- HyperFun - a modelling package which uses implicit surfaces as its principal modelling primitive.
- Several applets from Neil Dodgson:
To see the Java source code, replace .html with .java in the hyperlinks.
- A number of striking animations demonstrating how implicit surfaces can be used to model fluids.
Global Illumination Schemes
- The colour images from Buss chapter XI are available as a PDF. (327kB)
- Henrik Jensen's homepage has many references to photon mapping, including his early paper on the topic (1996).
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