Class Notes

• Some comments
• An Introduction to Javascript/HTML and the HTML5 Canvas
  • Our Goal for this section.
  • Overview
  • Getting Started
  • Attributes
  • Basic Javascript
  • A first program
• Chapter 1 of the book.
  • Graphics Systems
  • Images
• Some math
• Some Simple Animation
• The pinhole camera model.
• OpenGL
  • An introduction to OpenGL, mostly background and history.
  • A first program
  • Followup to Homework 5
• Triangles
• Wireframe objects
• Transformations in the new OpenGL world
• Moving about in a 3D World.
• Introduction To Clipping
• Line Drawing
• Polygon Fill Algorithms
• Lighting
  • The Lighting Equation
  • Light Demos
• Raytracing
  • Some Notes
  • My Files.

1. Introduction
   1. Overview of Graphics Software ✔
   2. Overview of Graphics Libraries and Application Programming Interfaces ✔
   3. Local Resources and Practices ✔
   4. Graphics Hardware ✔
2. Using a Graphics API
   1. Background and Architecture ✔
   2. Syntax and Interface ✔
   3. Graphics Pipelines ✔
   4. Shaders and Shading Language ✔
3. Mathematics for Computer Graphics
   1. Linear Interpolation ✔
   2. Trigonometry ✔
   3. Vectors and Matrices ✔
4. Color
   1. Background ✔
   2. Color Models ✔
5. 2D Concepts
   1. Primitives: Attributes and Algorithms ✔
   2. Transformations and Homogeneous Coordinate Systems ✔
   3. Clipping ✔
   4. Modeling vs Viewing Coordinates ✔
   5. Rasterization
6. 3D Graphics
   1. Projections ✔
   2. Polygon Surface Rendering ✔
   3. Hidden Surface Removal ✔
7. Light and Color
   1. Color Models
   2. Lighting Model
   3. Phong Shading