LECTURE 2: GRAPHICS BACKGROUND

COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

1. C and C++
2. ACF Scientific Visualization Homepage
3. SciVis for this class
4. UNIX environment (SGI IRIX)
5. Possible alternative: Win95/NT.

MATHEMATICAL PRELIMINARIES

1. Homogeneous coordinates
2. Matrix Operations
3. Transformations

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM AND COLOR

1. Human Eye
2. Color Theory
3. Computer Colors

RASTER GRAPHICS

GRAPHICS MACHINE ARCHITECTURE

What is OpenGL?