Contents

• 1 Color
  • Links
  • 1.1 Achromatic Light
    • 1.1.1 Gamma Correction
    • 1.1.2 Halftone Approximation
  • 1.2 Chromatic Light
    • 1.2.1 Psychophysics
    • 1.2.2 The CIE Chromaticity Diagram
  • 1.3 Color Temperature
  • 1.4 Color models for computer graphics
    • 1.4.1 The RGB Color Model
    • 1.4.2 The CMY Color Model
    • 1.4.3 The YIQ Color Model
    • 1.4.4 The HSV color model
    • 1.4.5 The HLS Color Model
    • 1.4.6 Interactive Specification of Color
    • 1.4.7 Interpolating in Color Space
    • 1.4.8 Using Color in Computer Graphics
  
  
• 2 Rastering
  • Literature
  • 2.1 Scan Converting Points
  • 2.2 Scan Converting Lines
    • 2.2.1 Basic Incremental Algorithm
    • 2.2.2 Midpoint Line Algorithm
  • 2.3 Scan Converting Circles
    • 2.3.1 Midpoint Circle Algorithm
  • 2.4 Scan Converting Ellipses
  • 2.5 Clipping Lines
    • 2.5.1 Brute Force
    • 2.5.2 Cohen-Sutherland Line-Clipping Algorithm
  • 2.6 Anti-aliasing
    • 2.6.1 Unweighted Area Sampling
    • 2.6.2 Weighted Area Sampling
    • 2.6.3 Gupta-Sproull Anti-aliasing Algorithm
  
  
• 3 File-formats
  • Literature
  • 3.1 RAW-data
  • 3.2 PNM. Portable Anymap File Format
    • 3.2.1 PBM. Portable Bit-Map Format
    • 3.2.2 PGM. Portable Grey-Map Format
    • 3.2.3 PPM. Portable Pix-Map Format
  • 3.3 Compression
    • 3.3.1 Run-length encoding
    • 3.3.2 Huffman
    • 3.3.3 LZW. Lempel Ziv Welch
  • 3.4 GIF. Graphics Interchange Format
  • 3.5 PNG. Portable Network Graphics
  • 3.6 JPEG
    • 3.6.1 YUV
    • 3.6.2 DCT. Discrete Cosine Transformation
    • 3.6.3 Quantization
    • 3.6.4 Encoding
    • 3.6.5 Example
  • 3.7 Comparison
  
  
• 4 Euclidean and Projective Geometry
  • Literature
  • Links
  • 4.1 Affine space
  • 4.2 Transformations
    • 4.2.1 Translations
    • 4.2.2 Scaling
    • 4.2.3 Reflections/Mirroring
    • 4.2.4 Rotations and Euclidean Motions
    • 4.2.5 Angle-Preserving Mappings
    • 4.2.6 General Transformations
    • 4.3.2 Perspective Projection
    • 4.3.3 Further Projections in Pov-Ray
  
  
• 5 Objects
  • Links
  • 5.1 Solid Finite Objects
    • 5.1.1 Sphere
    • 5.1.2 Box
    • 5.1.3 Superellipsoid
    • 5.1.4 Cylinder
    • 5.1.5 Cone
    • 5.1.6 Prism
    • 5.1.7 Interpolation and Splines
    • 5.1.8 Lathe
    • 5.1.9 Sor
    • 5.1.10 Torus
    • 5.1.11 Blob
    • 5.1.12 Sphere-Sweep
    • 5.1.13 Height-Field
    • 5.1.14 Julia-Fractal
    • 5.1.15 Text
  • 5.2 Finite Patch Objects
    • 5.2.1 Triangle
    • 5.2.2 Smooth Triangle
    • 5.2.3 Polygon
    • 5.2.4 Mesh
    • 5.2.5 Mesh2
    • 5.2.6 Bicubic Patch
    • 5.2.7 Disk
  • 5.3 Infinite Shapes
    • 5.3.1 Plane
    • 5.3.2 Quadric
    • 5.3.3 Cubic
    • 5.3.4 Quartic
    • 5.3.5 Poly
  • 5.4 Isosurface and Parametric Surface
    • 5.4.1 Isosurface
    • 5.4.2 Parametric
  • 5.5 Constructive Solid Geometry
    • 5.5.1 Union
    • 5.5.2 Merge
    • 5.5.3 Intersection
    • 5.5.4 Difference
  • 5.6 Lights
    • 5.6.1 Point Lights
    • 5.6.2 Spotlights
    • 5.6.3 Cylindrical Lights
    • 5.6.4 Parallel Lights
    • 5.6.5 Area Lights
    • 5.6.6 Light Fading
  
  
• 6 Textures & Patterns
  • Links
  • 6.1 Pigment
    • 6.1.1 Color List Patterns
    • 6.1.2 Color Mapped Patterns
    • 6.1.3 Image Maps
  • 6.2 Finish
    • 6.2.1 Ambient Light
    • 6.2.2 Diffuse Reflected Light
    • 6.2.3 Brilliance
    • 6.2.4 Highlights
    • 6.2.5 Specular Reflection
    • 6.2.6 Refraction
  • 6.3 Normal
    • 6.3.1 Slope Map
    • 6.3.2 Normal Map
    • 6.3.3 Bump Map
    • 6.3.4 Patterned Textures
    • 6.3.5 UV-Mappings
  • 6.4 Pattern Modifier
    • 6.4.1 Transforming Patterns
    • 6.4.6 Warps
    • 6.4.7 Black Hole Warp
    • 6.4.8 Repeat Warp
    • 6.4.9 Turbulence Warp
  
  
• 7 Media & Atmosphere
  • 7.1 Interior
    • 7.1.1 Empty and Solid Objects
    • 7.1.2 The Interior Statement
    • 7.1.3 Refraction
    • 7.1.4 Dispersion
    • 7.1.5 Attenuation
    • 7.1.6 Object-Media
  • 7.2 Media
    • 7.2.1 Media Types
    • 7.2.2 Density
  • 7.3 Atmospheric Effects
    • 7.3.1 Background
    • 7.3.2 Sky Sphere
    • 7.3.3 Rainbow
  • 7.4 Photons
    • 7.4.1 Using Photon Mapping in Your Scene
    • 7.4.2 Photon Global Settings
  • 7.5 Radiosity
    • 7.5.1 Introduction
    • 7.5.2 How Radiosity Works
    • 7.5.3 Adjusting Radiosity
    • 7.5.4 Radiosity with conventional lighting
    • 7.5.5 Radiosity without conventional lighting
  
  
• Bibliography
• Index