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© 1998-2008
Brian R. Johnson

Suggested Tapestry (and other web-based) Readings

Project 1 - Sketch Modeling

Overview slideshow
Whirlwind form•Z
The form•Z Tutorial, Ch 2.
3D Data Types
Data Creation
Rendering Overview
Ubiquity of Rendering
Digital Image Types - Vector vs Raster
Rendering - Camera Analogy
Rendering - Projection
Shading Overview

More...

Wikipedia: Flat shading
Wikipedia: Culling (aka "Back-face Culling")

Project 2 - Lighting & Shadows

Data - Organization
Model Development
Boolean Operations
Shading
Shading - Ambient
Shading - Flat Shading
Lighting - Overview
Lighting - Ambient
Lighting - Distant source
Lighting - Point source
Lighting - Cone source
Hidden Lines and Surfaces
Hidden Lines - Culling
Hiddent Lines - Depth Sorting
form•Z User's Manual, Section 6.6

More...

Wikipedia: Hidden surface determination (overview)
Wikipedia: Z-buffering

Project 3 - Detail Development

Model Development
Modeling - Revolution
Representing Holes
Sweeps
How To - Intersections (finding lines to sweep along)
Hidden Lines and Surfaces
Hidden Lines - Z-Buffering
Shading - Smooth Shading

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Wikipedia: Phong shading
Google Sketchup 3D Warehouse

Project 4 - Surfaces: Smoothing & Texturing

Texture Maps Overview
Textured Tree
Whirlwind StrataVision
form-Z to StrataVision

Project 5 - Modeling Irregular shapes (People, growies, and terrain)

Lining a Cooling Tower with Fabric
Making a plastic terrain model
Modeling an Urban environment

More...

YouTube: Fern An example of fractal mathematics
YouTube: Fern An example of fractal mathematics
Arch 486: Fractal Plant A local example!

Project 6 - Complex Curvature: Meshes, NURBS, and Metaballs (Oh My!)

Meshes

Lining a Cooling Tower with Fabric

NURBs

Wikipedia: NURBS
A somewhat simpler explanation
A thorough but decidedly UN-simple explanation.

Metaballs

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

Project 7 - Raytracing, radiosity & global illumination

Raytracing Overview
Radiosity Overview
form•Z User's Manual, Ch 6.

More...

Wikipedia: Global Illumination
Wikipedia: High Dynamic Range Imaging
Wikipedia: Caustics (optics)

Project 8 - Motion over time: Animation

Animation Overview
How To > form-Z Animation
Codec Comparisons (Caution! Many large files!)

More...

Wikipedia: Key-Frame Animation
Wikipedia: Video Compression

Project 9 - Multimedia/video Presentations

Premiere Intro
Codec Comparisons (Caution! Many large files!)
"Apeture" A commercial site, including some info about CODECs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_frame