Computer Science 418:
Computer Graphics
Laboratory Exercises


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1996 ACM SIGUCCS
Web Education Competition.



This page was last updated for the spring 1998 semester.
It is no longer being updated or used.

This is the Web Site for the Cornell University computer graphics programming course, CS 418. These pages contain all of the materials for CS 418 including lab procedures, software and student results. CS 418 is the lab section for CS 417. It was taught by Bruce Land, who was also in the Visualization Group at the Cornell Theory Center.


Exercises:

Getting started (1998)

  1. Building Polygon Objects (1998)
  2. Parametric Surfaces (1998)
  3. Transformations and Modeling (1998)
  4. Using a Virtual Camera (1998)
  5. Camera and Perspective Transforms (1995)
  6. Lighting (1998)
  7. Texture and Bump Mapping (1998)
  8. Modeling and Scientific Visualization (1998)
  9. Design Project (1998)
  10. Physics-based Animation (1997)
  11. Implicit Surfaces (1998)
  12. Procedural Textures (1997)

Exercises in 1998 will be done in the order 1, 2 ,11 ,3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Past Few Year's Final Project Animations

Note that exercises marked "(1998)" are current.
Those marked with earlier years are included for reference only and are not current exercises.