Midterm review topics.

This represents a PARTIAL list of topics that may be covered on the mid-term exam. It's meant to give you a starting point to guide your studying but is by no means  complete or authoritative. Good luck!

-Bryan

Human vision
    Dynamic range
    Anatomy
        Rods
        Cones (short, medium, long)
    Color perception
        Metamers
        Simultaneous contrast
        Perceptual difference between colors
        Spectral distributions
    Color spaces and gamuts
        RGB - additive
        HSV - additive
        XYZ (CIE) - additive
        CMYK - subtractive

Surface and material properties
    Diffuse (aka Lambertian) surfaces
    Specular surfaces
    Fluorescence
    Phosphorescence
    Iridescence
    Scattering (and sub-surface scattering)
    Phong illumination model
    BRDF and Light Fields

General graphics
    Areas of application
        Medical imaging
        Video games
        Films

Digital images
    Types of images 
        raster
        vector

Model representations
    CSG
    Polygonal (mesh)
        Barycentric coordinates
    Implicit surfaces

Linear Transformations
    2D
        Rotation
        Scale
        Translation
        Shear
        Homogenization
    3D
        Rotation
            axis-angle
            exponential maps
            quaternions
        Scale
        Translation
        Shear
        Homogenization
        Perspective
    Singular-value decomposition

Ray tracing
    Projection
        Image plane
        Eye position
    Rays
        eye
        shadow
        reflected
        refracted
    Ray-object intersection
        Sphere
        Triangle
    Distributed ray tracing
    Anti-aliasing
    Soft shadows
    Caustics

BSP Trees
    Construction
    Traversal

Perspective
    Vanishing points
    Distortion
    Projection
        Clipping planes
        Polygon clipping algorithm(s)
        Visibility
            Z-buffer (aka depth buffering)
            Painter's algorithm
        Orthographic projection