COMP 350: Computer Graphics

March 10, 2012

Midterm Exam Review Topics

1. Introduction to computer graphics: modeling and rendering, the graphics pipeline (from world to screen), color, basic graphics functions

2. Structure of an OpenGL program and its basic elements; event processing loop, callbacks

3. Displaying recursive constructs

4. Mandelbrot set

5. Rectangle-to-rectangle mapping

6. Handling mouse, keyboard, and window events

7. Generating pseudo-random numbers

8. Basics of computer animation

9. Double buffering; idle callback; timer function

10. Scalars, points, and vectors; affine space

11. Defining lines, triangles, and convex quadrilaterals via affine sums; (bi)linear interpolation

12. Dot product and cross product of vectors

13. Vectors, matrices and operations on them; inverses and transposes

14. Homogeneous coordinates; frames

15. Transformations of frames via matrix multiplication

16. Six basic frames in OpenGL

17. Modeling a solid; uniform and "gradated" coloring of faces

18. Affine transformations

19. Translation, rotation, and scaling in homogenous coordinates

20. Concatenation of transformations; current transformation matrix

21. Rotation about a fixed point

22. Using own transformation matrices

23. Matrix stacks

24. Viewing: parallel vs. perspective; orthogonal and perspective projections

25. Scene walkthrough via gluLookAt() function

26. Modeling surfaces with polygons