Welcome to Alpha 0.52 of GRAFICA Obscura, my evolving computer graphics notebook. This is a compilation of technical notes, pictures and essays that I've accumulated over the years. For maximum enjoyment, check the viewing notes provided.
One of my first computer graphics projects is shown here.
An overview of laser cutting along with short descriptions of three projects that explore laser scoring, laser cutting and prototype production.
Geometric Paper Folding: Dr. David Huffman A look at some of the nice folded paper structures created by Dr. Huffman at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
An inexpensive lamp made from a string of Christmas tree lights and small pieces of folded paper.
Here are step by step instructions on how to make a folded paper sculpture.
Japanese English Advertising Slogans Beautiful and poetic word combinations from Japan.
The Impressionist If you have a JAVA enabled browser, try The Impressionist. This is a paint program that lets you create a painted representation of a photograph.
A collection of digital pictures. This includes photographic and synthetic images.
Synthetic Lighting for Photography Modifying photographic lighting as a post process.
Isn't style as important as (f)utility? Should you indent 4 or 8? Here's the SGI way to write fashionable C code.
A quote from Carlos Castaneda about shadows.
A paint program that uses dynamics to filter mouse positions.
Here's a booklet showing various typefaces designed at SGI over the last few years.
Futurist Programming Overview Background on the Futurist Programming movement. For open minds only.
This technical note describes a technique for combining several images to increase or control depth of field in photography.
A note on the properties of various kinds of light. This describes lighting in terms of fall off, diffusion and wrap.
Creating an accurate panorama from a series of independent images is hard, but not impossible using a projective warp.
Image Interpolation and Extrapolation Linear interpolation can be used to implement many image processing operations efficiently. Here we show how to control contrast, color saturation, and image sharpness.
The same four by four matrices that are commonly used to transform 3D points may also be used to transform RGB colors.
Many unusual uses for texture mapping are surveyed in this technical paper.
Image Production for the Web Tools and hints for creating images for HTML documents.
Information on the portable version of GRAFICA Obscura.
Come see experiments in progress in the GRAFICA Outpost. Rants, CGI hacks, the FIAT LUX conference proceedings and many harmless distractions.
This material will be presented here in the future. In the mean time, please explore.