CS 445: Topics for the Week of Nov 6, 2006

• Reading: Chapter 9: Graphical Problem Solving in Science.

• Monday: Demo and turn in Part 1 of Project 4:Bitmaps, Pixmaps, and Textures . Begin working on Part 2.

• Begin Discussion of ray tracing.
  • Take a look at Povray
  • Look at pseudocode.
  • Define ray.
  • Set up screen coordinates
  • Compute intersections of sphere, cylinder, plane.
  • Lighting calculation
  • Shadows.