Photo by Svetlana Lazebnik

Which parts are hard to model?

From Alexei Efros

CMPS160 – Intro Computer Graphics

Professor – James Davis

TA – John Murray

T.Th 10-11:45am

http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/classes/cmps160/Fall11/

Depicting Our World

Prehistoric Painting, Lascaux Cave, France

From Alexei Efros

Depicting Our World: The Middle Ages

St. Johnfrom the Gospel Book of Abbot Wedricus (1147)

Cimabue Madonna Enthroned (c.1280-1290) From Alexei Efros

Depicting Our World: Toward Perfection

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Marriage (c.1434) From Alexei Efros

Depicting Our World: Toward Perfection

Lens Based Camera Obscura, 1568

From Alexei Efros

Depicting Our World: Perfection?

From Alexei Efros

Depicting Our World: Ongoing Quest

Pablo Picasso

Marc Chagall

From Alexei Efros

Enter Computer Graphics...

From Alexei Efros

GRAPHICS

Traditional Computer Graphics

3D geometry

physics

Simulation

projection

From Alexei Efros

State of the Art

•Amazingly real•But so sterile, lifeless, futuristic (why?)

From Alexei Efros

The richness of our everyday world

Photo by Svetlana LazebnikFrom Alexei Efros

Beauty in complexity

University Parks, OxfordFrom Alexei Efros

People

From “Final Fantasy”

On the Tube, London

From Alexei Efros

Faces / Hair

Photo by Joaquin Rosales Gomez

From “Final Fantasy”

From Alexei Efros

Urban Scenes

Virtual LA (SGI)

Photo of l LA

From Alexei Efros

Nature

River Cherwell, Oxford

From Alexei Efros

Rendering

Is milk “just” white stuff?

Where does the caustic come from?

Modeling

Physical Simulation

Animation – motion capture

Example of my recent research

Labs

• Lab 4 – Some sort of tutorial on programmable shaders (not chosen yet)

• Lab 5 – Choose something that interests you • More of an all quarter thing• We will give ideas, but you can also suggest

• Webpage – and details there – • Piazza• Ask about clickers..• Pass out pre-check of topics