DMS 424/524: Potential Presentation Topics

OpenGL

• Texturing:
  • Multi-texturing
  • CopyTexImage2D
  • TexGen, spherical reflection mapping
  • Cube mapping
  • Compression
  • 3D textures
• Accumulation buffer
• Stencil buffer
• Vertex arrays / Vertex buffer objects
• Frustum
• Picking
• Cubic curves & patches
• Clipping planes
• Blending extensions
• Basic shaders

Tech

• ODE, or other physics engine
• Ray tracing
• Radiosity
• Motion capture
• GPGPU
• Graftals / L-Systems
• OpenAL
• Video interaction (such as EyeToy)
• WiiMote
• Artificial evolution
• Volume visualization
• Shadows

Artists

• Myron Krueger
• Maurice Benayoun
• Karl Sims
• Jeffrey Shaw
• Monika Fleischmann
• Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
• David Rokeby
• Brenda Laurel
• Masaki Fujihata
• Toshio Iwai
• John Whitney, Sr.
• Charles Csuri
• David Em
• Dan Sandin
• Yoichiro Kawaguchi
• Peter Molyneux
• Will Wright