Imaging the Imagined: Raytracing tips from da Vinci & me

Imaging the Imagined: Raytracing tips from da Vinci & me

The art & science of modeling: rendering imagined worlds with math and a keyboard.

I'm interested in computer graphics!

This is by and for people interested in creating original '3-d' computer graphics programs and / or images.

Whimsical toys are used to show that complexity arises from the simple and common and that complexity can't stop us from having fun as we explore and exploit the math and physics that is required, convenient or just enjoyable to use in the creative process of forming images from the imagary of our imagination.

Java, VRML, OpenGL, C++ SDK graphics programming, it's all the same underneath.

I'm doing C++ programming on a Windows machine, and I'm writing this for everyone, from eighth grade up, but at the bull's eye of my target audience, is someone like me.

Every month I add a page, there are 16 pages now. Most recently modified: raytracing Java applet (3/14/97)

My Own, Humble Web Pages: Here you'll find:

shapes we know and love & Plato's footprints.

faceted objects

Platonic Solids and Polyhedra, including an exhaustive list of all the Platonic Solids known to man

tensilations in the harem, tiling

'Tensegrity' (tension) structures, Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome, the Faceted Globe, Buckyballs and Fullerines

A tiny Object library: tanks to teapots & Venus de Milo

curvy objects

the Quadric surfaces: spheres from squares; the P-51...

mapping between objects and dimensions

Bezier curves

Venus de Milo Java animation, paintings, and sculpture.

Claudia Schiffer, Niki Taylor, Cindy Crawford

raytracing & computer graphics is easy: just point and say how far

a gentle introduction to the art and science computer graphics

a gentle introduction to raytracing

a gentle introduction to graphics engines: pumping polygons.

The math: scalar, vector, matrix ( just pointing and saying how far )

Java applets : a visual tour

raytracing : create 3-D images yourself (interactive)

animation : the Venus de Milo statue rotates

drawing : A Draw / Scribble / Paint applet (interactive)

Web Resources:

Selected Sites, FAQs, etc. enlightenment and fufillment are guaranteed.

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Contents page same links as this page but with less graphics

A work in progress: Web page animation using perl (down due sytem changes)
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