Topics for the Week of Sept 1, 2008
CS 445: Computer Graphics

• First Day Quiz (anonymous!).
• Discuss course structure and expectations
• Lab 1: Building a Ray Tracer (3 weeks)
• Ray Tracing:
  • Povray
  • Notes
  • Wikipedia: includes description, pseudocode of basic algorithm, finding intersection with sphere, etc
  • Objects: Spheres, Cones,Cylinder, Plane
• Misc Links
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Projections
  • Color