TNM084 Procedural images for MT4-5 and DAV2/CS2 HT 2019

This document contains current information. Updates will be posted during the progress of the course.

General information

• Course plan from the LiU study guide for 2019
• Course information for the course start (in Swedish)

Lab sessions

(This section will be updated continuously during the course.)

• Lab 1: Swedish, English
• Zip file with already configured Dev-Cpp IDE, in case it's not installed for lab 1.
• Lab 2
• Submitted results for lab 2
• Lab 3
• Lab 4

Course material in addition to the textbook

(The list will be expanded during the progress of the course.)

• Complementary material for the book (from The Internet Archive, the original address is defunct)
• Ken Perlin's original article on Perlin noise from 1985 (PDF, curiosity)
• Simplex noise demystified (PDF, mandatory reading)
• State of the art in procedural noise functions (PDF, recommended reading)
• Stephen Worley's original article on cellular noise from 1996 (PDF, recommended reading)
• OSL language 1.9 specification (PDF, reference document)
• OSL overview on GitHub
• OSL in 3dsMax 2019
• Some OSL shader examples (somewhat insufficiently commented, but instructive)
• Graphics hardware (PDF, repetition from MT years 1-2)
• A mental model of a GPU (PDF, repetition from MT years 1-2)
• Procedural GPU Shading (Brief, shallow PDF)
• Procedural texturing in GLSL (Excerpt from book, PDF)
• GLSL noise (Code archive on Github)
• WebGL-GLSL testbed (with lots of noise functions already included)
• WebGL shader tutorial (advanced)
• The Book of Shaders (Interactive book, well written and with lots of examples)
• OpenGL Shading Language 3.3 (PDF, older but still-current version)
• OpenGL and GLSL reference pages on OpenGL.org
• Description of bump mapping using a 3-D procedural displacement function (PDF, highly recommended reading)
• Shadron bump mapping example with GLSL shader code for the method above (text file, recommended reading)
• Curl noise, a smart trick for creating divergence-free vector fields for particle flow animations (PDF, extra reading)
• Flow noise, a cheap but smart trick to create animated noise patterns with a turbulent look (Link to original publication site, recommended reading)
• Outerra Anteworld (Windows, procedural version of Earth, see link "tech demo")
• Space Engine (Windows, procedural version of the Universe)

Stefan Gustavson 2019-11-25