CS 445: Topics for the Week of Oct 2, 2006

• Monday: Demo and turn in Part 2 of Project 2

  • Do written problems on board
  • Demo matrix program.

• Finish reading: Chapter 5 Color and Blending
  Begin reading Chapter 6: Lighting

• Work on Part 3 of Project 2: Scene Graphs, Transformations, and Navigation

• Color Models at Brown

• Lighting

  • Phong Reflection Model
  • Types of lights - ambient, point, spot, directional
  • Lighting in OpenGL

• Computing Normals

  • Wave surface revisited.
  • Algebraic surfaces revisited.

• Shading - Flat, Gouraud and Phong shading. See HyperGraph

• Hidden Surface Removal - backface culling.

• Rendering Models:

  • Scanline
  • Ray Tracing
  • Radiosity
  • Comparison between scanline and ray tracing.

• Misc Links:

  • ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee: HyperGraph
    • Pixar Shutterbug Image series