1.
Images and Fractals

2.
2-D Primitives

3.
Scanline Fill

4.
2-D Viewing Pipeline

5.
Modeling System

6.
3-D Viewing Pipeline

7.
Depth Buffering

8.
Illumination & Shading

9.
Integration

10.
Modeling

Posters:
Michael's [PDF]
Alex's [PDF]

API Reference

Lab 9. Integration

M. Stone and A. Pshenichkin. 12.17.04.

A-Buffer Integration

The A-Buffer ands its integration into our system is described in Lab 7.

Sample A-Buffer Images

For this lab and the poster session, we created models of an Imperial Shuttle and a UFO. Alex's poster [PDF] depicts the process used to construct the latter:

Here are images we created from model files written in our parser format:

• A wireframe model of the Imperial shuttle. The filled-in objects are triangulized cylinders constructed using a helper program.
• The same shuttle from the front. Although not a complex image in terms of modern graphics, this shuttle was an amazing pain to code in by hand, even though we have a pretty nice parser. The labor required to construct it certainly made us appreciate the modeling in The Last Starfighter.
• A filled-in shuttle image, with a few artifacts.
• A much simpler UFO model, with semitransparent plates to better show its anatomy. Note the cockpit bubble, which was constructed using a sphere tesselation program we created and then smushed into the ovoid you see there by linear transformations.
• The alien spacecraft from a more interesting angle. The dark blob in the middle is the pilot, just a hint of whom is visible through the cockpit.

Illumination/Reflection Integration

(This section is not ready yet.)

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M. Stone and A. Pshenichkin.