Computer Graphics

Version 2.00
January 2001

Part I
Computer Graphics Principles

• Buffers and Images
  • Pixel to Bit Mappings
  • Rendering
  • Buffers
  • Manipulating buffers in OpenGL
  • Manipulating Images
• Points, Lines and Polygons
  • Drawing Points and Lines
  • Drawing with OpenGL
• Constructs for Graphics
  • Coordinate System
  • Points
  • Vectors
  • Matrices
  • Homogeneous Coordinates
  • Quaternions
  • Calculating Normal Vectors
• Object Transformations
  • Translation
  • Scaling
  • Rotation
  • Shearing
  • Concatenation of Transformations
  • Object Transformations in OpenGL
  • Concatenating Transformations in Practice
• Projection Transformations
  • Perspective Transformations
  • Projections
  • Projection Transformations in OpenGL
• Colour Models
  • Seeing in colour
  • Measuring colour
  • Chromaticity
  • Colour models
• Colour output
  • Monitor gamut
  • Factors affecting monitor quality
  • Video circuitry
  • Gamma correction
  • Usage of colour
• Quantization and Dithering
  • Quantization
  • Dithering
  • Half tones
• Hidden Surface Removal
  • Culling Polygon Faces
  • Hidden-Surface Removal
• Lighting
  • Local illumination models
  • Lighting in OpenGL
• Shading
  • Shading surfaces
  • Shading in OpenGL
• Mapping
  • Texture Mapping
  • Environment Mapping
  • Bump Mapping
  • Mapping in OpenGL
• Global Illumination
  • The optics of transparency
  • Ray-tracing
  • Image aliasing
  • Radiosity

Part II
Selected Topics

• OpenGL: Applications of the Buffers
  • Fragment operations in OpenGL
  • Stencil Buffer
  • Accumulation Buffer
• OpenGL: Special Effects
  • Blending
  • Anti-aliasing
  • Fog
  • Shadows
• OpenGL: Tips and Tricks
  • Texture-Mapping Applications
  • Special Effects
  • Wireframe Rendering
• Virtual Reality
  • Interaction in Virtual Reality
  • Representing Worlds/Environments
  • Applications of Virtual Reality
• Animation
  • Skeletons
  • Free-Form Deformations
  • Kinematics and Inverse Kinematics
  • Motion Capture
• Rendering Natural Effects
  • Particle Systems
  • Rendering Fire and Explosions
  • Plants
  • Unscripted Motion
• Image Manipulation
  • Selection
  • Layers
  • Image enhancement
• Object Modelling
  • The OFF File Format
• Coherence
  • Types of coherence
  • Exploiting Coherence
  • Data structures for coherence
• References

This document was translated from L^AT_EX by H^EV^EA and H^AC^HA.