Course pages 2014–15
Computer Graphics and Image Processing
Video clips
The videos shown before and during lectures were:
- Gravity (Warner Bros, 2014)
Oscar-winning special effects including animation by one of the lab's graduates at Framestore - André & Wally B (Pixar, 1984)
Motion blur - Luxo Jr (Pixar, 1986)
Shadows - Small and far away from Father Ted (Channel 4, 1995)
- Adoring saints: right panel by Lorenzo Monaco for monastery of San Benedetto (1407-09)
- The Holy Trinity fresco by Masaccio in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence (1425)
- Annunication, with Saint Emidius by Carlo Crivelli for church in Ascoli (1486)
- Man drawing a lute from A painter's Manual by Albrecht Dürer (1525)
- Ames room (Royal Institution, 2011)
- Red's Dream (Pixar, 1987)
Complex lighting - Tin Toy (Pixar, 1988)
Using photo-realistic RenderMan software and inspiring Toy Story - Knick Knack (Pixar, 1989)
3D - Cubic tragedy (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology) from SIGGraph 2005
- 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 - Dice (Kyoto Seika University) from SIGGraph 2005
- Interactive haptic painting with 3D virtual brushes from SIGGraph 2001
- Sketchpad 1/2 and 2/2
Early interactive graphics by Ivan Sutherland (1963) - 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)