CS5611 Reading List: Week 1

Textbook Material
Read the following sections of Chapter 1
  • Section 1.1
  • Backface elimination or culling (pp. 9-10)
  • Section 1.3 to Section 1.6
Three files are available in the common directory:
  • Polygon.pdf is for rendering polygons.
  • Illumination-Models.pdf will be used in this (i.e., second) week's lecture.
  • PBR-Tutor.exe is a Windows program, written by Tin-Tin Yu, that can illustrates some polygon based rendering problems. Click here for a paper of PBR-Tutor.