Computer Science 112
The Art & Science of Computer Graphics

Fall 2015, The College of Saint Rose

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Agenda

• Announcements
• Marcy Nielsen Pendergast from the Academic Success Center to talk about tutoring and other available services
• Lecture 2 assignment recap
• Building our first models
  • the Ambrosia players
• Basic modeling
  • Ambrosia primitive objects
  • a first look at colors and materials
• Fundamental transformations
  • translations
  • scaling
  • compositions

No New Lecture Assignment

The lecture assignment previously in this space will be part of a future assignment.

Terminology

• virtual model
• modeling language
• coordinate axes
• origin
• left hand rule
• projection
• image plane
• clipped
• view volume
• comments
• material
• default material
• transformations
• translation
• scaling
• composition

Examples

• On the Wiki: Simplebluecube, Downloadable file: simplebluecube.py
• On the Wiki: Fourcubes, Downloadable file: fourcubes.py
• On the Wiki: Scaleandtranslate, Downloadable file: scaleandtranslate.py