CS563 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Presentation Summaries
- Limits on Perception - Matt Ward
- Visualizing Information - Matt Ward
- N-Dimensional Brushing in XmdvTool - Allen
Martin
- An Overview of AVS - Chris Bentley
- Designing Effective User
Interfaces - Suzanne Martin
- Interfaces for Virtual Reality - Brian Lingard
- Volume Rendering with Marching Cubes
- Matt Ward
- Fractal Surface Generation - Markus
Altman
- Ray Tracing - Cheng-Ling Lin
- An Overview of IRIS Inventor -
Darren Meyer
- Radiosity - Allen Martin
- Texture Mapping - Chris Bentley
- Animation Tricks - Suzanne Martin
-
Bump Mapping - Brian Lingard
- Visualizing Sequence Relationships -
Matt Ward
- Rasterizing Curves and Surfaces
- Cheng-Ling Lin
- Parametric Curve Generation - Darren Meyer
- An Overview of IBM Visualization Data Explorer - Matt Ward
- Particle Systems - Allen Martin
- NURBS - Markus Altman
- Bezier Surfaces and the Teapot
- Chris Bentley
- Stereoscopic Computer Graphics
- Brian Lingard
- Free-form Deformation -
Suzanne Martin
- Artificial Evolution
- Markus Altman
- Morphing - Cheng-Ling Lin
- Graphics File Formats - Darren Meyer
- Noise, Turbulence, and Texture
- Matt Ward
- Distributed Ray Tracing
- Allen Martin
- Shadow Generation Techniques
- Chris Bentley
- Virtual Reality in Medicine
- Suzanne Martin
- Hardware Support for Windowing Operations
- Markus Altmann
- Animating Articulated Objects-
Brian Lingard
- Delaunay Triangulation - Cheng-Ling Lin
- Color Theory and Pre-Press - Darren Meyer
Text Resources
- text books
- journals
- conference proceedings
- articles
Software Resources
- convert - converts images between various formats, in /usr/local/bin
- libsx - library which facilitates use of X, in /cs/courses/cs4731/software/libsx
- SRGP - multi-platform library for 2-D graphics, in /cs/courses/cs4731/software/SRGP_DISTRIB
- AVS - commercial visualization system, on bigwpi, type avs
- IRIS Inventor - commercial class library for 3-D graphics, on terra
- IBM Visualization Data Explorer - commercial visualization system,
copy on raven, type dx
- renderzb - simple z-buffer implementation, in /cs/courses/cs563/software
- rayshad - simple ray tracer for ellipsoid objects, in /cs/courses/cs563/software
- XmdvTool - visualization package for multivariate data, see Allen Martin
or Matt Ward for location of most recent version. Public domain version is
obtainable via anonymous ftp (ftp.wpi.edu in directory contrib/Xstuff)
- xgrabsc - allows you to grab a section of an X window and store it, in
/usr/local/bin
- xwd/xwud - allows you to grab or display a complete X window, in
/usr/bin/X11
- xv - general purpose image display tool, in /usr/local/bin
- animate - create animation sequence, on CCC machines, run man ImageMagick
- mpeg_encode - create an MPEG animation - source code in
/cs/courses/cs563/software/mpeg_encode
- render - Allen Martin's renderer, in ~amartin/bin/render (compiled for
DEC), sample models in ~amartin/models
Web Sites of Interest
- The Ray Tracing Home Page -
http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk:/Ray.Tracing/
- Fractals FAQ -
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/fractal-faq/faq.html
- Jaron Lanier's Home Page (coined the term VR) -
http://www.well.com/Community/Jaron.Lanier/index.html
- SIGGRAPH - http://www.siggraph.org/
- Graphics Software Archive -
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu:80/graphics/graphics/
- Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) Forum -
http://www.wired.com/vrml/
- THE Internet 3D Object Repository -
ftp://avalon.chinalake.navy.mil/pub
- Comp.Graphics FAQ - http://www.primenet.com/~grieggs/cg_faq.html
- Comp.Graphics.Algorithms FAQ -
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/graphics/algorithms-faq
- Comp.Graphics.Animation FAQ -
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/graphics/animation-faq
- Sci.Virtual-Worlds FAQ -
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/virtual-worlds/meta-faq/faq.html
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Computer Graphics and Visualization -
http://www.dataspace.com/WWW/vlib/comp-graphics.html
- Annotated Scientific Visualization Weblet Bibliography -
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/projects/visualization/visWeblets.html
- Graphics, Visualization, and Usability HTTP Archive -
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/glimpse.html
- UCSTRI Cover Page -
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cstr/search
- SGI Cover Page -
http://www.sgi.com/
- URL for the Stanford Graphics Lab -
http://www-graphics.stanford.edu
- Stanford Collection of space shuttle models -
http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/~tolis/shuttle.html
- http://www.algorithm.com/
- http://www.cnam.fr/fractals.html
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/fractal-faq/faq.html
- http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/VR/VRHomePage.html
- http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/cg.html
News Groups of Interest
- comp.graphics
- comp.graphics.visualization
- sci.virtual-worlds
matt@owl.WPI.EDU