Preparation for the Final
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The final is "comprehensive," questions may cover material 
from the first half of class.

The final will be Friday May 21st, 5-8pm in 306 and 310 Soda. 

Report to room 306 on time. If you miss the exam, you 
will NOT be allowed to take it at another time.  If you are 
late, you must still finish the exam at 8:00pm.

You can bring 4 regular sided pages (front and back) of notes 
with you to refer to during the exam.  These pages will be 
most useful to you are very familiar with what is stored on 
them so that you only need them to, for example, look up a 
formula you may have forgotten.  I especially do *not* suggest 
having a friend prepare your pages for you.

No calculators, cell phones, or other electronic devices may 
be used during the test.

In general test questions will stress understanding over 
memorization.

Everything in the lecture notes posted on the class website is 
potential material for the exam.  The same applies for anything 
that was discussed during class.  

In addition to the list furnished for the midterm, you should 
study the following topics, both from the notes/handouts and 
from the text book:


  Anti-Aliasing 
    - Aliasing
    - Basics of Fourier Transform (very basic)
    - Basics of filtering
    - Super sampling
    - Alpha Buffer 
    - "Distributed" ray tracing    

  Compositing
    - Over/under/etc operations
    - Alpha channel 
    
  Ray Tracing
    - Basic concept
    - Basic intersection tests
    - Using BSP trees or AABBs to accelerate ray tests
    - "Distributed" ray tracing (also listed under A.A.)
    - Reflection and Refraction
   
  Global Illuminations
    - Rendering Equation
    - Transport path notation
    - Basic physics of light transport

  Monte Carlo ray tracing
  
  Radiosity
    - Computing form factors
    - Set up of linear system
    - Solution methods
    - Strengths/limitations

  Photon Mapping
    - Basic concept
    - Strengths/limitations

  Curves and Surface
    - Hermite, Bezier, B-Splines/NURBS
    - Algebraic construction of basis functions
    - Normal and tangent computation
    - Basis properties e.g. convex hull, interpolating, etc.
    - DeCasteljau Evaluation
    - C and G continuity
    - Joining
    - Tensor product construction
    - Surface tessellation
    - Subdivision surfaces
  
  Other surface representations (basic concepts)
    - Implicit functions
    - CSG
 
  Simplification and Level of Detail

  Motion Capture and IK
    - Basic concepts

  Possible extra credit questions based on animations methods
  discussed on last day of class.


Good luck!