Advanced Graphics
2002-03

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.