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− | * [http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~emmanuel/courses/cs563/S05/talks/suman_wk8_IBR.pdf Image Based Rendering - Suman Nadella] | + | * [http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~emmanuel/courses/cs563/S05/talks/suman_wk8_IBR.pdf Image Based Rendering - Suman Nadella on Billboarding and Imposters] |
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap Wikipedia on Texture Filtering] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap Wikipedia on Texture Filtering] |
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GAM670/DPS905 | Weekly Schedule | Student List | Project Requirements | Teams and their Projects | Student Resources
Contents
GAM670/DPS905 -- Weekly Schedule 20121
Week 1 - Jan 8
This Week
- Assignment Discussion
- Suggested Enhancements
- Review of the Base Code
- Definition of a Framework
- Modularity through stable interfaces
- Re-usability through generic components
- Extensibility through hook methods
- Inversion of control - determines which application methods to invoke in response to external events
- Framework Architecture
- Modelling Layer
- API Translation Layer
- Notable Features of the Base Code
- camera, sound, and light are also derived from the Frame class
- textures attach at the object level
- texture connection is uncoupled from drawing of the graphics primitives
- reference frames are relative
- very simple collision detection
- Definition of a Framework
To Do
- add your name to the student list
- create a team page that includes the semester number 20121
- describe the game that you intend to develop
- list the topics of interest to your team in developing its game
- list the other topics of interest
Resources
Week 2 - Jan 16
This Week
- Relative Reference Frames
- Recursive calls
- Vector Frame::position()
- Matrix Frame::rotation()
- Matrix Frame::world()
- Detaching from and attaching to a parent frame
- Frame::attachTo()
- Recursive calls
- Geometry
- Plane
- normal + constant - examples
- equation of a plane: dot(n, x) + D = 0
- positive side of a plane dot(n, x) + D > 0
- Plane
- Collision Detection
- types of colliders
- spheres
- planes
- axis-aligned bounding boxes
- oriented bounding boxes
- types of colliders
To Do
- Research the feature that you are going to add and prepare a plan of action
- Prepare a team page for your team so that repos can be ordered
- Add a section to your team page to track your project and solicit commentary
Resources
Week 3 - Jan 23
This Week
- Collision Detection (cont'd)
- Shape
- Shape : Frame
- Shape::setRadius()
- Shape::getRadius()
- Shape::setRadius(float r);
- Shape::setRadius(float x, float y, float z);
- Shape::getRadius() const { return radius; }
- Shape::setPlane(Vector n, float d);
- Shape::setAxisAligned(Vector min, Vector max);
- Shape
- Comprehensive Camerawork
- rotation about an axis
- order of rotation matters
- Euler angles
- gimbal lock
- complex numbers
- solution of cubic equations 16th century
- two-dimensional representation
- matrix representation
- quaternions
- extension of complex numbers
- four-dimensional representation
- matrix representation
- geometric algebra (more abstract)
- Visibility Determination
- test a point for presence within a set of planes
- normal calculations - general rotation matrix - vector and angle
- ViewFrustum
- parameter - view * projection
- 6 planes
- near and far planes
- left and right planes
- top and bottom planes
- coding
- constructor
- ViewFrustum::contains()
- Finite Size of Objects
- Expansion of the View Frustum
- Index Buffers
- amount of storage needed for vertex data
- duplication of vertex data
- indexing
- indexed primitives
To Do
Resources
- Wikipedia on Complex Numbers
- Wikipedia on Quaternions
- Wikipedia on quaternions and Spatial Rotations
- Wolfram on Quaternions
- CProgramming.com on Quaternions
- Ogre intro on Quaternions
- collision sample
- indexBuffering sample
Week 4 - Jan 30
This Week
- Meshes
- What is a mesh?
- vertex list -> vertex buffer
- index list -> index buffer
- attribute list -> subset to which primitives belong
- Stock Objects
- Sphere
- Cylinder
- Torus
- Utah Teapot
- Custom Mesh
- Create a Mesh
- DrawSubset
- FVF settings
- X File
- Create Mesh from File
- What is a mesh?
- SkyBox
- definition of a skybox
- other forms
- Billboards
- definition, purpose of a billboard
- types of billboards
- screen-aligned - useful for annotation text, lens flares
- normal is opposite to camera heading
- up is camera->up
- axial - useful for cylindrical symmetry - trees (textured object does not face straight on)
- up is fixed
- normal faces the viewer as much as possible
- view_plane - no distortion - useful for
- normal is fixed (opposite to camera heading)
- up is open to change
- viewpoint - simulates distortion due to perspective projection - useful for clouds
- normal is fixed (difference between viewpoint position and camera heading)
- up is open to change
- screen-aligned - useful for annotation text, lens flares
- Texture Filtering
- mip maps
- multo in parvo
- texture creation
- mip maps
To Do
Resources
- Image Based Rendering - Suman Nadella on Billboarding and Imposters
- DigitalRune
- Wikipedia on Texture Filtering