Lecture notes

The lecture slides are available in three formats: HTML, PDF and Postscript (compressed with gzip). PDF files can be viewed and printed with
Adobe Acrobat. Compressed Postscript files can be uncompressed with WinZip (Windows) or gunzip (UNIX), and viewed with a Postscript viewer
such as gsview (Windows) or ghostview (UNIX).

Note that in slides posted here do not precisely coincide with what we actually discussed at the lecture. Combined with handouts they should be sufficient to reproduce everything.

January 25 Lecture 2. Ray Casting. HTML, compressed Postscript: (2 slides/page) , (6 slides/page)PDF: (2 slides/page) , (6 slides/page)

February 1 Lecture 3. Ray Tracing and Transformations. HTML, compressed Postscript: (2 slides/page) , (6 slides/page)PDF: (2 slides/page) , (6 slides/page)

February 8 Lecture 4. Ray Tracing and Lighting. HTML, compressed Postscript: (2 slides/page) , (6 slides/page)PDF: (2 slides/page) , (6 slides/page)

February 15 Lecture 5. Filtering. HTML, compressed Postscript: (2 slides/page) , (6 slides/page)PDF: (2 slides/page) , (6 slides/page)

February 22 Lecture 6. Physics of lighting, rendering equation. HTML, compressed Postscript: (2 slides/page) , (6 slides/page)PDF: (2 slides/page) , (6 slides/page) Also see Cohen and Wallace.

February 29 Lecture 7. Rendering Equation. See Cohen and Wallace.

March 7 Lecture 8. Volume Rendering.

March 14 Spring break.


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