Links

Textbooks

Basic books

[Foley94] Introduction to Computer Graphics, Folley, Van Dan, Feiner, Hughes, and Phillips, Addison-Wesley

TAU-Lib

[Foley96] Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice 2nd edition, Foley et al, Addison-Wesley

TAU-Lib

[Gonzalez02] Digital Image Processing 2nd edition, Gonzalez, Prentice Hall

Advanced

Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques, Watt and Watt, Addison-Wesley

3D Computer Graphics, Watt, Addison-Wesley

Real-Time Rendering, Akenine-moller and Haines, AK Peters

Helpful Sites

OpenGL Slides by Alan Lerner

Links by lecture

Lecture 1 - Introduction

Rugby commercial on CGSociety - http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4496
Another cute commercial - http://features.cgsociety.org/cgfilms/cgfilm.php?story_id=3582
Digital domain - a very successfyk digital design company (look under 'Reels') - http://www.digitaldomain.com/
Evil eye pictures - another digital design company demo reel - http://evileyepictures.com/reel/
Digital effects in the original starwars movie (1977) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac

Lecture 2 - Image Processing (and color)

Color theory applets (Brown university)
Good tutorials on color and digital photography (cambridge)
For people who are into digital photography - Understanding digital raw capture

Lecture 3 - Image Processing

Signal processing and resampling

Excellent java applets on signal processing (Brown university)

Seam carving - "official" site (video, paper)

Nice flash implementation of seam carving - rsizr

Transformations

Linear algebra applets, try "Transformation Game" (Brown university)

Lecture 4 - Ray tracing

Ray tracing

Ray tracing demonstration applet (2d)

POV-Ray is a freeware ray-tracer with a very nice hall of fame
Excellent article on real-time Ray Tracing

Intersections - Good source for exercise 2
Lighting

Lecture 6 & 7 - Rendering Pipeline

Other interesting links

Adobe Photoshop express - excellent online photo management and image processing