CG 2009/2010a

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
Image processing course from a dutch university

Links by lecture

Lecture 1 - Introduction and Raster Graphics

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
Seam carving - project page and flash demo
Color theory applets (Brown university)
Good tutorials on color and digital photography (cambridge)

Lecture 2 and 3 - Image Processing

For people who are into digital photography - Understanding digital raw capture
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

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 - Advanced rendering & Animation

Shadow Algorithms

A course on shadows from SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 - http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/ShadowCourse/
Temporal coherence in real time rendering (a bit advanced but very nice) - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2009/scherzer-thesis/

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

Ran Gal

iWires project page
Diffusion curves - very interesting paper (check out the video!) and you can download the tool.
Symmetry

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
OpenGL 3.2 and GLSL 1.5 examples