CS 488: Lab 3 – Rotating Tetrahedron
Welcome to lab, which is a place where you and your peers complete exercises designed to help you learn the ideas discussed in the preceding lectures. It is intended to be a time where you encounter holes in your understanding and talk out loud with your peers and instructor. Your instructor will bounce around between […]
CS 488: Lecture 5 – The Third Dimension
Dear students: Our goal today is to render a rotating cube. No more flat geometry—we’re going to the third dimension! A few new concerns arise as we get more and more triangles in our scenes. We will overcome them with the power of our graphics API. Indexed Triangles In most of our computer games, triangles […]
CS 430: Lecture 3 – Variables
Dear students, Computer science has its roots in mathematics. It was the mathematicians who first had problems they wanted to mechanize. Computer science soon grew into a discipline of its own that appeals to people who don’t like mathematics. My hot take is that there’s one big reason for its success: computer science has more […]
CS 488: Lecture 4 – Spaces and Orthographic Projections
Dear students: Let’s step back and look at where we are. We can make shapes out of triangles. We can color them. We can move them around and resize them using a compact and fast system of matrices. We can tie these transformations to mouse events. That’s pretty nice. Where do we go next? It’d […]