Graphics

• How to do character inverse kinematics on the cheap. Popular toolkits are Havok Animation, Euphoria engine and HumanIK by AutoDesk.
  • YouTube Link! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae3fgj2x1aI

• 123D is a great set of seemingly free tools for Hobbyists

• Free is a nice price.
• http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/how-to-create-a-professional-logo-animation/
• blender_cheat_sheet.pdf

• $10 per cubic inch at CMU (plastic…!) http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~printlab/3d.html
• Also: http://www.cmu.edu/architecture/facilities/dfab-lab/Equipment%20Tab.html email Zach Ali the dfab monitor

Way cool WebGL demo…makes me want to take Computer Graphics to build my own ray tracer just for fun

• Univ. of New Mexico Cool intro page that you saw before. Talks about how different images look in the frequency domain. Talks about filtering them as well and their effects.
• 2D FFT of Goofy :P

• Author's Blog
• Intro Tutorial, Another Reference Tutorial
• Much better than Sketchup for rendering large (>1000) shapes dynamically. For Sketchup, 6-level Sierpinski took 5 minutes, never finished 7-level.
• Looking into how to export it into a good rendering program. Looks like main two are Sunflow and Blender. However, if other programs recognize .OBJ files, they're good to go as well.
• Already installed Sunflow, not sure on Blender.

Cubic	Crazy Balls	Sierpinski	Cubic 2

• Much more here

• Command Line Usage: (Adjust 4096(MB) to your memory size)

java -server -Xmx4096M -jar sunflow.jar

• Problem is, changing the camera position is a pain. You have to set it up just right in SS and then export. Luckily, SS has a primitive RayTracer built in.

• Possible source for making a rounded cube here

• Looks really good too! Although limited to 640×480: http://www.artvps.com/

• Good starter blog post is from Alex Shchreyer here
• Kerkythea tutorials page
• Currently using 2008 PDF Tutorial