CS142: Topics Spring 2007

• Intro to ray tracing, povray, and graphics,
• Web pages: creating your own page. Displaying your Povray images.
• Representing Color (hex for the web)
• Modeling I: Basic shapes, Boolean operations, declaring and re-using objects
• Transformations I: translate, rotate, scale in povray
• Programming Concepts: variables, loops, some conditionals, trig review
• Random numbers
• Transformations II: matrices
• Anti-aliasing
• Modeling II: meshes, isosurfaces
• Lighting and shading: finishes in Povray, fog, media
• Texturing and image file formats
• Functions and macros
• Recursion and macros
• Modeling III: splines, parametric and implicit surfaces
• Animation