Topics for the Week of Sept 15, 2008
CS 445: Computer Graphics

• Lab 1: Building a Ray Tracer (3 weeks)
  • Tues: continue to work on part 2.
  • Thurs: look at student work for part 2. Begin part 3.
• Ray Tracing:
  • Review lighting from last week:
    • Phong Lighting
    • For an entertaining lecture on lighting, see Knoll's Computer Class
  • Finding Intersections of Shapes with Rays: Spheres, Cones,Cylinder, Plane
  • Finding surface normals
  • Ray traced shadows
  • Textures
    • 2D Procedural Textures
    • Mapping and UV Coordinates
    • Bump Mapping
    • Setting up UV Coordinates of various shapes
    • 3D Textures
    • Perlin Noise, code