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
• TAU-Lib
• Website
• 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)
• 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
• Shading on Wikipedia
• Illumination and shading tutorial
• OpenGL lighting demo

Lecture 8 - Rendering Pipeline

• Bump mapping java applet

Lecture 10 - Polygonal Meshes

• AIM@SHAPE shape repository

Lecture 11 - Parametric Curves and Surface (new)

• Nice introduction to subdivision surfaces
• MeshLab is an excellent tool to work with meshes, including several subdivision schemes
• Java applets for cubic splines, B-splines, Bezier Curves and more
• Another spline interpolation demo (java)
• Yet another java applet to interpolate polynomials and splines
• A c++ curve editor

Lecture 12 - Animation

• Some of the movies/papers we talked about
• Pixar Luxo Jr. @ YouTube
• Interactive manipulation of rigid body simulations (additional movies and the paper itself)
• Tormenting the Stanford Bunny (and related)
• Porous flow in particle based fluid simulations
• Tons of cool results (videos and images) @ Ron Fedkiw
• Apple's secret serpent @ YouTube
• Particle systems
• Particle system in java (source code available)
• C++ tutorial on particle systems
• Wikipedia, some good links here
• A lot of the example videos that didn't work yesterday were from here (By David McAllister)
• Runge-Kutta methods to intergrate ordinary differential equations @ Mathworld
• Laplacian Surface Editing
• Project page @ Olga Sorkine's page
• Misc.
• Sony Bravia commercial (bouncy balls) @ YouTube
• The song is 'Heartbeats', a cover by Jose Gonzales of a song by The Knife. Really people, listen to some music!

Lecture 13 - Guest Lectures

• Jackie Assa
• Motion overview of human actions
• Action Synopsis
• Ran Gal
• iWires project page
• Diffusion curves - very interesting paper (check out the video!) and you can download the tool.
• Symmetry
• What is symmetry?
• Symmetry detection (SIGGRAPH 06)
• Symmetrization (SIGGRAPH 07)
• Gil Hoffer
• Coordinates for instant image cloning

Lecture 14 - Summary and more...

• Symmetrization - Mitra et al
• Seam carving - Shamir, Avidan et al (also see here)
• Diffusion Curves

Other interesting links

• Adobe Photoshop express - excellent online photo management and image processing