9 Images & 3D models

Objective:

• To understand how photographic images can enrich 3D models

I. Review of Libraries, Student Sites

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Diagram links and Web searching

• Start from known sources: reference lists, books, names of authors or companies
• Multi-source searches Dogpile
• Altavista link search

II. Assignment 4

III. Rendering

A. Material Attributes in Surface Styles

B. Images

• Color Image Map
• Reflectance Environment Maps
• Transparency Map
• Bump Map

C. Texture Mapping (urban blocks)

• Wrapped textures vs. Solid procedural textures (i.e. directional wood grain)

D. Decals (picture in frame, decal on brick wall, rug on floor)

IV. Rendering Background

A. Images in the Background

B. Matching image perspective views

C. Alpha Channel Background

IV. Creating and Using Alpha Channels

A. Save Selection, Load Selection (Channel)

B. Creating an Alpha Channel (paint in mask mode)

V. Web Site Management

VI. References

Stylized Depiction in Computer Graphics (non-realistic rendering)

• David Salesin @ UW
• Michael A Kowalski @ Brown

3D Paint

• Paul Ritchens' Piranesi

Models and Texture Maps 

FOR TUESDAY: Draft of Model with sketches of layers