CS 445: Topics for the Week of Sept 11, 2006

• Photos from 2006 Eurographics (Vienna): Academy of Science (outside), Academy of Science (inside), Vienna City Hall, Vienna City Hall

• Applications - Medical Imaging: Visible Human Project. Examples: Head (front), Head (top), Colon fly through.

• Continue reading: Chapters 3. You should be done reading chapters 0-2.

• Demo Part 2 of Project 1

• Teapots

  • The Utah Teapot
  • SIGGRAPH 2006: The Teapot as Object and Icon

• Geometry Pipeline

• Continue Lab: Structure of an OpenGL/JOGL Program and Simple Geometric Modeling

  • Take questions on the algebraic surfaces and DEM programs.

• OpenGl Primatives

• Projections and Viewing

  • Types
  • Look at Nate Robbins projection.exe (gluPerspective, gluLookAt)
  • OpenGL Projection Transformations: glFrustum(), gluPerspective(), glOrtho(), gluOrtho2()

• Summary of OpenGL functions for setting up Transformations

  Modeling transformation modelview matrix	glTranslate, glRotate, glScale
  Viewing transformation modelview matrix	gluLookAt
  Projection transformation projection matrix	glFrustum, gluPerspective, glOrtho, gluOrtho2
  Viewport transformation	glViewport

  
  

  

• Misc Topics:

  • Anti-aliasing (pp. 2.12 and 3.9): Hypergraph
  • Display Lists (p. 2.29, 3.24) See DEM Image example.
  • Depth Testing - Z Buffers (p. 1.19): Wikipedia
  • More about Projection - orthographic vs perspective, perspective division, view frustum, clipping, defining viewport.