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Final Exam Review Topics

The exam will cover chapters 1 - 6, 7 (sections 7.5-7.6), 8 and 10 of the textbook and all lectures. You are responsible for all the material taught so far, and all topics are possible for inclusion on the exam, although there may be a few more questions covering the last part of the course. The exam is open book and open notes. To help you study, you can try the Review Problems for the final exam. Also, the following is a list of topics that may or may not appear on the exam (in addition to the topics from earlier parts of the course):
• Texture Mapping
  • Two-Dimensional Texture Mapping
  • Mapping texture coordinates onto pixel coordinates
  • Mapping 2D textures onto 3D surfaces (e.g. cylinder or sphere)
  • OpenGL texture Mapping
• Clipping
  • Cohen-Sutherland Clipping
  • Liang-Barsky Clippping
  • Polygon clipping
  • Clipping in 3D
• Scan Conversion
  • DDA algorithm
  • Bresenham Algorithm
  • Inside-Ooutside testing for Polygons
  • Flood Fill
  • Anti-Aliasing
• Curves and Surfaces
  • Representations
    • Explicit, Implicit and Parametric representations
    • Parametric polynomial curves (particularly cubic polynomials)
  • Interpolation, Hermite and Bezier Curves
    • Geometry matrix
    • Blending Functions
  • Extension to 3D
  • Rendering of curves (recursive subdivision).
  • Converting between types of curves
  • Curves in openGL

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Constance Royden--croyden@mathcs.holycross.edu
Computer Science 384, Computer Graphics
Date Created: August 17, 1999
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