CS 445: Topics for the Week of Oct 9, 2006

• Monday: Demo and turn in Part 3 of Project 2: Scene Graphs, Transformations, and Navigation

• Finish reading: Chapter 6: Lighting
  Begin reading Chapter 7: Event Handling (picking starting on page 7.20)

• Begin work on Part 1 of Project 3: Color Ramps, Lights, and Materials

• Color Models at Brown

• Computing Normals

  • Wave surface revisited.
  • Algebraic surfaces revisited.
  • Bump Mapping and OpenGL.

• Defining Materials in OpenGL (see project 3).

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

• Rendering Models:

  • Scanline
  • Ray Tracing
  • Global Illumination: Radiosity and photon mapping (see text).
  • Comparison between scanline and ray tracing.

• Picking - see example on \\home\classes.

• Types of lights in openGL - ambient, point, spot, directional

• Misc Links:

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

• Exam next Wed!! Review on Monday.