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Lecture Notes

In class this year, I am not following my notes too closely. In general, I am improvising using a combination of some hand-written notes, typed notes (in power point - sometimes from last year).

As in the past, I am making my notes available to you. However: I make no promises that these are of any use to anyone other than me. Not everything that we talk about in class is in the notes, and not everything in the notes gets discussed (you are only responsible for things we actually get to discuss).

I will also try to make audio recordings (and maybe even video, if I get brave). No guarantees that these will be useful. However, if you do find them useful (or have ideas on what could be done to make them more useful), let me know. I’m not sure what a 50 minute mp3 file will be good for. Also, the audio quality may not be great - i’m just using my little MP3 player to record it.

• Lecture 2 (9/4/2009) - Image Basics, Gamma (notes) (audio)

• Lecture 3 (9/9/2009) - Displays, Sensing, Sampling (notes) (audio)

• Lecture 4 (9/11/2009) - Resampling, Convolutions (notes) (audio)

• Lecture 5 (9/14/2009) - Resampling, Convolutions (notes) (audio)

• Lecture 6 (9/16/2009) - Sampling theory (topics list) (notes) (audio)

• Lecture 7 (9/18/2009) - Making sense of sampling theory (notes) (audio)

• Lecture 8 (9/21/2009) - Answering questions about resampling (notes) (audio)

• Lecture 9 (9/23/2009) - Low pass filters (notes) (audio)

• Lecture 10 (9/25/2009) - Answering questions (see Main.Q0922) (audio)

• Lecture 11 (9/28/2009) - Greg guest lecture on OpenGL Basics

• Lecture 12 (9/30/2009) - Compositing and Generalized Resampling (notes) (audio)

  • see also last year’s notes that I referred to

• Lectures 13-16 (October 2,5,7,9,12) - Geometric Graphics (Transformations)

  • These lectures were loosely based on previous years notes and questions
  • Primitives, Transforms, Homogeneous Coordinates (last year’s notes)
  • Transformations in 3D (see last year’s notes)
  • (audio 10/2) (audio 10/5) (audio 10/7) (audio 10/9)

• Lecture 17 (10/12/2009) - Transformations and Viewing (see 2007’s notes) (audio soon)

• Lecture 18 (10/14/2009) - Li Zhang guest lecture (lighting) (pdf)

• Lecture 19 (10/16/2009) - Perry Kivolowicz guest lecture

• Lecture 20 (10/19/2009) - Viewing (pdf) (audio)

• Lecture 21 (10/21/2009) - Visibility and Viewing (pdf-visibility) (pdf viewing-zbuffer fov) (audio)

• Lecture 22 (10/23/2009) - Z-Buffers and Lighting/Shading (zbuffer pdf p2) lighting/shading notes (p1) (p2) (audio)

• Lecture 23 (10/26) Lighting Wrap-Up, Pre-Exam Sumary (notecards) (audio)

• Lecture 24 (10/28) Curve intro (last year’s notes - we didn’t get through all of it) (audio)

• Lecture 25 (10/30) Polynomial Curves, Continuity (pdf) (audio)

• Lecture 26 (11/2) - Cubics (audio)

• Lecture 27 (11/4) - Beziers (pdf) (audio)
• Lecture 28 (11/6) - Texture (pdf) (audio)
• Lecture 29 (11/9) - Texture (pdf) (audio)

Note: for many of these lectures, I loosely followed last year’s lecture notes (except where I have handwritten notes). Links to those notes will come sometime soon, or just go to last year’s notes page.

• Lecture 30 (11/11) More Texture audio
• Lecture 31 (11/13) Real-Time Graphics Hacks (handwritten) audio
• Lecture 32 (11/16) Graphics Hardware, Shader Programming audio
• Lecture 33 (11/18) Odds and Ends, GLSL (pdf) audio
• Lecture 34 (11/20) More Shader Programming (anti-aliasing notes) audio
• Lecture 35 (11/23) Questions, Shape Modeling audio
• Lecture 36 (11/25) Surfaces audio
• Lecture 37 (11/30) Generalized Cyliners, Subdivision Curves (handwritten) audio
• Lecture 38 (12/2) Subdivision Surfaces (last year’s notes (pdf)
• Lecture 39 (12/4) More Subdivision and Animation (audio)
• Lecture 40 (12/7) - Color (last year’s notes (pdf)) (audio)
• Lecture 41 (12/9) - Snow Day
• Lecture 42 (12/11) - Color II (audio)
• Lecture 43(12/14) - Rendering (last year’s notes (pdf)) (audio)