II.4 VISUAL COMPUTATION: COMPUTER GRAPHICS

emphasis: data structure vs. visual structure, modeling vs. rendering/display

tapes:

• * D'apres le naufrage SIG101
• * Mercury SIG 91 > simulated mercury composited with live action footage
• * Steven Arthur's animation of Shadbolt paintings

print references:

• Computergraphia, ed. Scott
• Dictionary of Computer Graphics

visiting computer animator:

• Steven Arthur talking about animating with paint programs

concepts:

• computer graphics
• image synthesis
• image processing
• image analysis, frequency information, transformations, filtering
• computer vision
• computer aided design
• pixels, voxels
• 2D and 3D arrays, raster, buffer
• wireframe representation
• shaded facet representation
• ray-traced representation
• image capture
• graphical input devices, frame-grabber, scanner
• display and interface software
• resolution
• hardcopy output, plotter, printer, video recorder, film recorder, high-res. slides
• interactive vs. passive graphics systems, paint programs
• compositing
• alpha channel, mattes