The Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics Page

http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/whirlwind

Latest update: October 24, 2025

SIGGRAPHers -- Look here for the notes!

Here are the PDF Whirlwind notes:

• 1 slide per-page
• 2 slides per-page
• 4 slides per-page
• 6 slides per-page

The video from the Whirlwind course is now up on the official ACM SIGGRAPH YouTube page! Find it here.

Here is the More Information PDF document that goes with the notes:

• More Information

These materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
(This means that you are free to go off and use these for anything non-commercial so long as you give proper credit. Have fun!)

Videos Created for the Whirlwind Introduction:

• anim2.mp4 -- Two-body keyframe animation

• avoid.mp4 -- Functional Animation -- Collision Avoidance

• chain.mp4 -- Chain Interaction

• cloth.mp4 -- Cloth Animation

• curves.mp4 -- Bezier curve sculpting

• Dominos.avi -- Rigid Body Animation -- Dominos

• FluidSimulation.avi -- Fluid Animation

• gpu_particles.mp4 -- Particle Animation on a GPU

• lattice.mp4 -- Lattice structure for geometry sculpting

• lighting.mp4 -- Ambient-Diffuse-Specular lighting

• lsystems.mp4 -- L-systems

• mandelzoom.mp4 -- Zoom-in to the Mandelbrot Set

• particles.mp4 -- Particle Animation

• SixSpheres.mp4 -- Six spheres and a teapot: Animated and ray-traced

Blender Files Created for the Whirlwind Introduction:

• anim2.blend

• cloth.blend

• dominos.blend

• particles.blend

• reflrefr6.blend

Other Files for the Whirlwind Introduction:

• keytime.h , keytime.cpp -- DIY keyframe animation software

Other Oregon State University Class Notes:

• Intro to Computer Graphics

• Computer Graphics Shaders

• Vulkan

• Parallel Programming (includes GPU programming)

• Computer Science Skills for Simulation and Game Programming

Other Oregon State University K-12 Computer Graphics Notes:

• Blender

• Processing

• Scratch

• SketchUp

• TinkerCAD

Other Oregon State University Computer Graphics Notes:

• ParaView

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