REVIEW

TEST II CS458

We will start AFTER the transformation MATRIX and GUI material. (That is the transformations and GUI's will NOT be on the test.

structured graphical items
visualization: pseudo-color, contour, volume rendering, vector fields, fluid flows (streamers, particles), multivariate data fields, glyphs (like the weather station reporting), faces
parametric forms: for lines, for objects, for surfaces
curves: splines, Bezier, forcing curves by points, surface
drawing curves:
- Continuity ( 0 meets, 1 tangents equal, 2 second derivative equal),
- poly-line formula (use a lot of points),
- parametric equations,
- spline curves (natural spline (all points included in formula), Hermite (two points and slopes at points), Cardinal (two points and information from point before and after), Kochanek Bartels (add tension, bias) ),
- Bezier curves (constrained by convex hull, goes near points except first and last)
3D planes: right hand rule, face normal, parametric form
3D surfaces: ruled surfaces (cone, cylinder), quadric, patches
3D solids: points, math, sweep, parametric, Bezier surface, CSG, octrees, blobby objects, extrusion/deformation/morphing, fractals
building realistic models (the Monsters video clip)
programming
- movie
- movie scripting language and movie script player
- building 3D objects