CS 480 - Readings

Textbook

We will be using the following book:

Jeffrey McConnell - Computer Graphics: Theory into Practice

We're using 'Processing' as our programming language/system, for homeworks #1 and #2 and maybe HW3 also. Here are two books to help you learn Processing:

ADDITIONALLY/OPTIONALLY, if you love OpenGL and want to learn more, you can also consider getting:

Courses from a few other schools

Introductory CG/animation courses are offered at several schools across the US/Canada. Here's a small sampling:

Stanford, CS448

If something is unclear from my lectures, feel free to consult such alternate sources of information!

Other books of interest

Foley and van Dam

Alan Watt - 3D Computer Graphics

Peter Shirley - Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

Saty Raghavachary - RenderMan book

Rudy Cortes & Saty Raghavachary - RenderMan shading language book

Graphics research(ers), papers..

As with other CS areas, graphics is a very active research area. Here are some of the researchers and their work:

Ken Perlin

Paul Debevec

Peter Schroder

Ken Turkowski's papers

James O'Brien's papers

Henrik Wann Jensen's papers

Ron Fedkiw

The three 'PH's of CG:

SIGGRAPH (**The** annual computer graphics conference!) publishes the best-of-the-best research papers each year. Here is a link ("gold mine"!) to papers from recent years. Browsing through them will give you a taste for the field and also point out future research directions. SIGGRAPH also maintains these teaching resources by way of education/outreach.

Coding, theory..

OpenGL code samples, tutorials

More OpenGL samples

Floating point arithmetic [read at least the first 50 pages]

Links to commercial/free software

Here is a page full of links. They point to software which incorporates a lot of the material you're learning in this course.

CG production

Here is a list, for job search and internships opportunities, or for simply browsing - you'd be amazed at the breadth of CG that is happening.. Look for trailers or 'demo reels' at these companies' sites. And here are some students' demo reels..