This page will be updated throughout the semester with course resources.
Student Guides
The Student Handbook (#2) contains information on creating an account for this site, making comments, and creating/building/submitting assignments.
What follows is a list of articles written to help you with projects, deepen your understanding, or introduce you to new topics!
- Images as Data - How are images stored? What is a color to a computer? How can we manipulate and interact with images through programs?
- Math Resources - References to external mathematics resources, derivations, etc., as well as how they tie in to this course and how they're useful for graphics.
- C++ Basics - Tips and tricks to get you started with C++ programming
- Texturing Tangents - We got some basic exposure to texturing in our Rasterizer project, but there's a lot more to explore! Pathtracing yields great, realistic shadows right out of the box -- but how can we achieve similar effects with rasterization techniques? How can we create random-ness in scenes and images, without hand-manipulating all the elements? This + more!
Discussion Worksheets
| week | date | worksheet | solution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/22 - 01/23 | No discussion this week | N/A |
| 2 | 01/29 - 01/30 | C++ Review via Convolution | link |
| 3 | 02/05 - 02/06 | Sampling, Transforms, & Texture Mapping | link |
| 4 | 02/12 - 02/13 | Splines & Curves | link |
| 5 | 02/19 - 02/20 | Halfedges & Ray Intersections | link |
| 6 | 02/26 - 02/27 | Ray Tracing & Radiometry | pdf slides |
| 7 | 03/05 - 03/06 | Probability & Monte Carlo Integration | link |
| 8 | 03/12 - 03/13 | Pathtracing & Review | N/A |
| 10 | 04/09 - 04/10 | Cameras & Lightfields | link |
| 11 | 04/16 - 04/17 | Animation, Simulation, Color & Imaging | link |