Course pages 2013–14
Computer Graphics and Image Processing
Video clips
The videos shown before and during lectures were:
- Mortal Combat from The Golden Compass (New Line Cinema, 2008)
Oscar-winning special effects including animation of fur by one of the lab's graduates at Framestore - Sketchpad 1/2 and 2/2
Early interactive graphics by Ivan Sutherland (1963) - Death star visualisation from Star Wars (Lucasfilm, 1977)
Early use of computer generated images in a film - Sunstone (Ed Emshwiller, 1979)
Early computer-generated film by Alvy Ray Smith and colleagues - André & Wally B (Pixar, 1984)
Motion blur - Luxo Jr (Pixar, 1986)
Shadows - Red's Dream (Pixar, 1987)
Complex lighting - Tin Toy (Pixar, 1988)
Using photo-realistic RenderMan software and inspiring Toy Story - Small and far away from Father Ted (Channel 4, 1995)
- The Holy Trinity fresco by Masaccio in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence (1425).
- Ames room (Royal Institution, 2011)
- Knick Knack (Pixar, 1989)
3D - Model of the William Gates Building in Quake2
Zip file containing model and a copy of Quake2 (for academic use only, not to be distributed) - Cubic tragedy (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology) from SIGGraph 2005
- Geri's Game (Pixar, 1997)
First use of subdivision surfaces in a commercial animation (and Oscar for best animated short film) - Visualizing the XYZ color space (Sony Pictures Imageworks) from SIGGraph 2005
- Acquiring the reflectance field of a human face from SIGGraph 2000
- Interacting with paper on the DigitalDesk from CHI 92 (Pierre Wellner, 1994)
- BrightBoard from CHI 96 (Quentin Stafford-Fraser, 1996)
- Tabletop interfaces for remote collaboration (Philip Tuddenham, 2008)