- •1. TABLE OF CONTENTS
- •2. AN INTRODUCTION TO UNIX
- •2.1 OVERVIEW
- •2.2 UNIX
- •2.2.1 Using UNIX Workstations in general:
- •2.2.2 Directories, Files, Etc.
- •2.2.3 Advanced Concepts
- •2.3 THE NETWORK
- •2.4 GOOD MANNERS
- •3. THE INTERNET
- •3.1 NETWORKS
- •3.1.1 Computer Addresses
- •3.2 NETWORK TYPES
- •3.2.1 Permanent Wires
- •3.2.2 Phone Lines
- •3.3 NETWORK PROTOCOLS
- •3.3.1 Mail Transfer Protocols
- •3.3.1.1 - Attachments
- •3.3.1.2 - Mail Lists
- •3.3.2 FTP - File Transfer Protocol
- •3.3.3 News
- •3.3.4 HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- •3.3.5 Chat
- •3.3.6 Novell
- •3.3.7 Security
- •3.4 DATA FORMATS
- •3.4.1 HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
- •3.4.1.1 - Publishing Web Pages
- •3.4.2 URLs
- •3.4.3 Hints
- •3.4.4 Specialized Editors
- •3.4.6 Encryption
- •3.4.7 Compression
- •3.5 PULLING ALL THE PROTOCOLS AND FORMATS TOGETHER WITH BROWSWERS
- •3.6 OTHER STUFF
- •3.6.1 Clients and Servers
- •3.6.2 Java
- •3.6.3 Javascript
- •3.6.5 Searches
- •3.6.6 ActiveX
- •3.6.7 Graphics
- •3.6.8 Animation
- •3.6.9 Video
- •3.6.10 Sounds
- •3.6.11 Other Program Files
- •3.6.12 Fancy Stuff
- •4. TEACHING WITH THE INTERNET
- •4.1 LECTURES
- •4.1.1 Equipment
- •4.1.2 Techniques
- •4.2 ON-LINE NOTES
- •4.3 ON-LINE MARKING
- •4.3.1 Web Pages
- •4.3.2 email
- •4.4 The Time-Line For My First On-Line Course (Fall 1996)
- •5. WWW and HTML
- •5.1 Why Bother?
- •5.2 Where to Find Netscape
- •5.3 How to Get Your Own Home Page
- •5.4 How to Create a file
- •5.5 Resources
- •6. A BASIC INTRODUCTION TO ‘C’
- •6.2 BACKGROUND
- •6.3 PROGRAM PARTS
- •6.4 HOW A ‘C’ COMPILER WORKS
- •6.5 STRUCTURED ‘C’ CODE
- •6.6 ARCHITECTURE OF ‘C’ PROGRAMS (TOP-DOWN)
- •6.7 CREATING TOP DOWN PROGRAMS
- •6.8.1 Objectives:
- •6.8.2 Problem Definition:
- •6.8.3 User Interface:
- •6.8.3.1 - Screen Layout (also see figure):
- •6.8.3.2 - Input:
- •6.8.3.3 - Output:
- •6.8.3.4 - Help:
- •6.8.3.5 - Error Checking:
- •6.8.3.6 - Miscellaneous:
- •6.8.4 Flow Program:
- •6.8.5 Expand Program:
- •6.8.6 Testing and Debugging:
- •6.8.7 Documentation
- •6.8.7.1 - Users Manual:
- •6.8.7.2 - Programmers Manual:
- •6.8.8 Listing of BeamCAD Program.
- •6.9 PRACTICE PROBLEMS
- •7. GUI DESIGN
- •7.1 PRACTICE PROBLEMS
- •8. AN EXAMPLE - BEAMCAD
- •9. PROGRAMMING IN JAVA
- •9.1 OVERVIEW
- •9.2 THE LANGUAGE
- •9.3 OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
- •9.4 REFERENCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY
- •10. DATABASES
- •11. MESSAGE PASSING ON NETWORKS
- •12. MATHEMATICAL ELEMENTS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS
- •12.1 INTRODUCTION
- •12.2 PIXELS
- •12.2.1 The Perspective Transform
- •12.3 LINE DRAWING
- •12.3.1 Hidden Lines
- •12.4 POLYGON DRAWING
- •12.5 SHADED POLYGONS
- •12.6 COLORS
- •12.6.1 Color Maps
- •12.6.1.1 - Quantization with an Octree RGB Cube
- •12.6.1.1.1 - Algorithm and Implementation
- •12.6.1.1.2 - Color Quantization Data Structures
- •12.7 DITHERING
- •12.7.1 A Model for Light Ray Reflection
- •12.7.2 A Model for Light Ray Refraction:
- •12.7.3 A Model for Specular Reflection of Point Light
- •12.8 RAY TRACING
- •12.8.1 Basic Ray Tracing Theory
- •12.8.1.1 - A Model for Diffuse Reflection of Ambient Light
- •12.8.1.2 - A Model for Diffuse Reflection of Point Light:
- •12.8.1.3 - Collision of a Ray with a Sphere:
- •12.8.1.4 - Collision of a Ray With a Plane:
- •12.8.1.5 - Mapping a Pattern
- •12.8.2 Ray Tracer Algorithms
- •12.8.3 Bounding Volumes
- •12.8.4 Shadows
- •12.8.5 Aliasing
- •12.8.6 Advanced topics
- •12.9 RADIOSITY
- •12.10 ADVANCED GRAPHICS TECHNIQUES
- •12.10.1 Animation
- •12.11 REFERENCES
- •12.12 PRACTICE PROBLEMS
- •13. NEW TOPICS
- •13.1 VIRTUAL REALITY
- •13.2 MULTIMEDIA
- •14. VISIONS SYSTEMS
- •14.1 OVERVIEW
- •14.2 APPLICATIONS
- •14.3 LIGHTING AND SCENE
- •14.4 CAMERAS
- •14.5 FRAME GRABBER
- •14.6 IMAGE PREPROCESSING
- •14.7 FILTERING
- •14.7.1 Thresholding
- •14.8 EDGE DETECTION
- •14.9 SEGMENTATION
- •14.9.1 Segment Mass Properties
- •14.10 RECOGNITION
- •14.10.1 Form Fitting
- •14.10.2 Decision Trees
- •14.11 PRACTICE PROBLEMS
- •15. SIMULATION
- •15.1 MODEL BUILDING
- •15.2 ANALYSIS
- •15.3 DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
- •15.4 RUNNING THE SIMULATION
- •15.5 DECISION MAKING STRATEGY
- •15.6 PLANNING
- •15.7 NEURAL NETWORK THEORY
- •16. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)
- •16.1 OVERVIEW
- •16.2 EXPERT SYSTEMS
- •16.3 FUZZY LOGIC
- •16.4 NEURAL NETWORKS
- •16.4.1 Neural Network Calculation of Inverse Kinematics
- •16.4.1.1 - Inverse Kinematics
- •16.4.1.2 - Feed Forward Neural Networks
- •16.4.1.3 - The Neural Network Setup
- •16.4.1.4 - The Training Set
- •16.4.1.5 - Results
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4.1 LECTURES
4.1.1 Equipment
• Essential
Web Server - Your campus will have at least one web server, and this can acts as a useful place to leave files. Another (not recommended) alternative is to set up your own web server. I have set mine up using Linux (Unix for PCs) on a standard desktop computer, this can also be done using Windows NT (TM) produced by Microsoft. Between your files, and the students work, you should expect to fill tens of megabytes conservatively or up to gigabytes for large files and/or classes.
Faculty Computers - You will need at least one computer. A laptop is best, and can often be taken to the classroom. Networked desktop machines in the office and in the classroom can be set up with appropriate software.
Data Projector - If possible get a high quality data projector that will connect to your computer. If this is not possible, use an LCD panel on an overhead projector, this will appear a bit dark. Worst case use a computer to TV converter, this will be the least expensive, but the graphic quality is very poor. (in many classrooms and on rolling carts - ask IT)
Word Processor/Publishing Software - You will need a word processor of some description to prepare web pages. This is actually somewhat difficult for lecture material. The word processor typically needs to be able to include figures and possibly equations. The format used in this package must then be able to be converted to HTML. At the time of writing the variety of option is limited, but the market will soon be flooded. At present the best solution that I have been able to find is Adobe Framemaker. This runs on PCs, Macintosh, and Unix platforms.
Browser - There are a number of excellent browsers available today, but the two best are available from Netscape and Microsoft (use Netscape when possible). Both can be obtained at no charge under certain conditions. Either will do for the students, and this software can be used as a presentation tool in class. (www.netscape.com)
• Optional
Application Software - I have used packages such as Working Model, and Mathcad to support lectures. Anybody using the browsers for course notes will need copies of application software to included files. These files will allow the notes to become interactive, visual, experimental, etc. This could include other software such as Photoshop for modifying pictures.
Digital Camera/Scanner - A scanner can be very useful for capturing images on paper. But when possible this should be discouraged. Scanned documents are very large, and can be very slow when downloaded for viewing. Scanned photographs also tend to have a poor quality. A very good option is to buy a digital camera that captures images directly to digital format. These cameras come in a variety of prices, but a good midrange camera can be purchased for $600 that will give good quality photographs. Within a short period of time these costs will drop quickly, and real time