Topics for the Week of Sept 8, 2008
CS 445: Computer Graphics

• Lab 1: Building a Ray Tracer (3 weeks)
  • Tues: continue to work on part 1.
  • Thurs: look at student work for part 1. Begin part 2.
• Ray Tracing:
  • Povray
  • Notes
  • Wikipedia: includes description, pseudocode of basic algorithm, finding intersection with sphere, etc
  • Objects: Spheres, Cones,Cylinder, Plane
  • Phong Lighting
  • For an entertaining lecture on lighting, see Knoll's Computer Class
• Misc Links
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Projections
  • Color