Project 1 - Basics

Lecture Slides

• Review Slides (2015)
• Review + Basic & Derivative Modeling (2016)

  Tapestry pages...

• 3D Data Types (check out the child pages too)
• Data Creation
• Rendering Overview
• Ubiquity of Rendering
• Digital 'Film' - Vector vs Raster
• The Camera Analogy
• The Camera - Projections
• Hidden Lines and Surfaces
• Hidden Lines - Culling
• Hidden Lines - Depth Sorting

  (More...)

• Wikipedia: Culling (aka "Back-face Culling")

if you're using Rhino...

• Rhino 5 Training Manuals (Level 1) Ch 1-5 (pp 9-132) [pdf]

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Project 1 - Derivative Modeling & Hidden Surfaces

Lecture Slides

• Derivative Geometry
• Graphics Pipeline - Top end

  Tapestry pages...

• Boolean Operations
• Modeling - Revolution
• Sweeps
• Representing Holes
• Hidden lines & surfaces

  Rhino...

• Rhino 5 Training Manuals (Level 1) Ch 1-5 (pp 9-132) [pdf]
• Rhino 5 Training Manuals (Level 1) Ch 6,8,9 [pdf]

  More...

• Smooth Shading facetted shapes
• Wikipedia: Z-buffering
• Wikipedia: Phong shading

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Project 3 - Lights, Shade & Shadow

Lecture Slides

• Graphics Pipeline
• Lights & Shading

  Tapestry pages...

• Shading Overview
• Shading - Ambient
• Shading - Flat Shading
• Lighting - Overview
• Lighting - Ambient
• Lighting - Distant source
• Lighting - Point source
• Lighting - Cone source

  Rhino...

• Rhino 5 Training Manuals (Level 1) Ch 9,11 (lights) [pdf]

  (More...)

• Wikipedia: Flat shading

More...

• Hidden surface determination (overview) Wikipedia

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Project 4 - Surface Detail (Surface Textures & Smoothing)

Lecture Slides

• Faux Geometry

  Online...

• "UV mapping in v5 Rhino"
• All about VRay Materials (a good read!)
• SimplyRhino Intro to VRay (painfully slow in places, but a good intro)

  Tapestry pages...

• Texture Maps Overview
• Textured Tree

  Rhino...

• Rhino 5 Training Manuals (Level 1) Ch 11 (materials & textures) [pdf]

  (More/other...)

• Whirlwind StrataVision
• form-Z to StrataVision (data exchange)

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Project 5 - Photorealism

Lecture Slides & etc.

• Photorealism

  Tapestry readings

• Raytracing Overview
• Radiosity Overview
• Path Tracing Overview
• Final Gather
• Ambient Occlusion
• Caustics
• Scattering

  Wiki readings...

• Wikipedia: Global Illumination
• Wikipedia: Radiosity
• Wikipedia: High Dynamic Range Imaging
• Wikipedia: Ambient_occlusion
• TUDelft Wiki: Final Gather
• Wikipedia: Caustics (optics)

  Chaos Group documentation (V-Ray vendor)

• "Basic Ray Tracing" explanation
• Overview of Global Illumination methods
• Indirect Illumination discussion
• Light Cache discussion
• The Apartment Rendering Tutorial (download the data file .zip archive here)

  YouTube and Vimeo content

• SimplyRhino's Exterior Rendering Tutorial (approx 30 min) Covering Rhino sun, VRay sun, and dome-light environmental lighting
• SimplyRhino's Interior Rendering Tutorial (approx 35 min) Covering natural lighting setup and scene adjustments.

  Other Good (sometimes more detailed) readings

• The VRay 2.0 Tutorial Collection
• The VRay 1.5 Tutorials (slightly larger)
• V-Ray Render Params tutorial
• A nice, visual, treatment of Photon Maps
• A thorough explanation of radiosity

  with pictures!

• "RRV" Gallery showing intermediate radiosity rendering steps

  (Even More...)

• form•Z User's Manual, Ch 6. (some of the illustrations are quite good, even if the software is different)

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Project 6 - Blobs: NURBS & Meshes

Lecture Slides & etc.

• Complex Curvature
• Ch 14. Splines (the math, if you're interested)

  Tapestry pages...

• 3D Data: Blobs & Meshes
• EMP Gazebo Tutorial

  McNeel Level 1 manual

• Chapter 7 (starts on page 143) (The Rubber Duck tutorial)

  Wikipedia

• Wikipedia: Bezier Curves (with animated visuals and less math!)
• Wikipedia: Polygon mesh
• Wikipedia: Subdivision surfaces

  NURBs

• (Wikipedia: NURBS)
• A somewhat simpler explanation

  Metaballs

• Metaballs (blobs) with some graphics.
• Wikipedia: Metaballs Short and sweet.

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Project 7 - Site Modeling: Dirt, Streets, Trees, & Lamp posts

Lecture Slides

• Terrain Modeling

  Tutorials and Tapestry Case Studies...

• Terrain Modeling using Drape in Rhino (tutorial by Hunter Rauthruff)
• Urban Modeling from GIS data using the Meerkat Grasshopper plugin + Rhino (tutorial by Tim Hanlon, 2016)
• Urban Modeling from GIS data using ArcGIS software (tutorial by Dan Belcher, 2007)
• Case Study: Making a plastic terrain model
• Case Study: Modeling an Urban environment (Belltown)

  More...

• Vimeo: Vol Libre The (SIGGRAPH '80) film by Loren Carpenter (a must see!)
• YouTube: Fern An example of fractal mathematics
• YouTube: Fern Another example of fractal mathematics

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Project 8 - Advanced Geometry

Lecture Slides & etc.

• Advanced Geometry Topics

  Readings

• V-Ray Fur for Rhino (ChaosGroup)
• Procedural Fur (ChaosGroup)
• Geometry Proxies (Tapestry)
• Procedural Geometry (Tapestry)
• Particle System (Wikipedia)
• (Lindenmayer) L-System (Wikipedia)

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Project 9 - Finishing Touches

Lecture Slides & etc.

• Finishing Touches (Tapestry)

Reading Resources

• How to: Environments (Tapestry)
• V-Ray Dome Light (Chaosgroup)
• Indirect Illumination Reference (Chaosgroup)

HDR Resources

• HDR Images (A small collection to experiment with)

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Project 10 - Post-production

Slides

• Lecture Slides
• Lecture Slides Part II

  Adobe Videos

• Adobe Tutorials

  Readings

• Premiere Intro (Tapestry)

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