CS 445 Midterm Review

The midterm will be held Thursday, Feb 28, 2002.

Topics

• Bezier Curves
• Color Theory and Color Representation.
• Image filtering - convolution.
• 2D Procedural Textures.
• Vectors: representation, length, addition, scalar multiplication, dot products, outer products, cross products.
• Matrix Operations: multiplication, addition, determinants, transpose, inverse, identity.
• 2D Transformations: Translation, scaling, rotation, shear, reflection, projection. See class notes, assignments, and web notes.
• 3D Transformations: Translation, scaling, rotation, shear, reflection, projection. See class notes and assignments.
• Homogeneous coordinates.
• Special Orthogonal Matrices in 2D and 3D.
• 3D Rendering Pipeline - what is the sequence of operations and transformations. Terminology: model/local coordinate system, world coordinate system, view coordinate system, screen space, culling, clipping, back plane, front plane, perspective transform, hidden surface removal, z-buffer, view frustum.