CS 551 / 645:
Introductory Computer Graphics
David Luebke
cs551@cs.virginia.edu
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs551
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Administrivia
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Assignment 1 due today
Second UNIX section:
– Tuesday (tomorrow) at 4:30
– This room (MEC 214)
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Assignment 2 postponed till Wednesday
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A Bit On Color
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Today’s topic: a quick introduction to color
Elements of color:
– Illumination: physics
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Colored light in terms of wavelengths, spectra
– Reflectance: physics
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How does light bounce off a surface? How does this
change its color?
– Perception: physiology, psychology
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David Luebke
How does the (very complex) human visual system react
to colored light?
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The really basic physics of color
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What exactly is colored light?
What is the visible spectrum?
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Color Perception
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Go to overhead…
– http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs551/lecture5.pdf
David Luebke
7/27/2016