The Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics Page

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

Latest update: May 2, 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

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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