CS248 Midterm Review

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CS248 Midterm Review
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CS248 Midterm

• Mon, November 5, 7-9 pm, Terman Aud
• Mon, November 5, 3-5 pm, Gates 392
• Mostly short answer questions
• Covers through Thursdays lecture

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Raster Displays, Resolution, Perception

• Measures of spatial resolution
• physical vs. addressable resolution
• CRTs
• 3 phosphors for red, green, and blue
• Triads and shadow mask

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Human spatial frequency sensitivity

• Sensitivity highest in fovea
• Frequency sensitivity
• Phase sensitivity (Vernier acuity)
• Temporal sensitivity
• Flicker (50-70Hz)
• Perceived motion
• 12 Hz cartoons, 24 Hz film, 60 Hz video

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Raster Displays, Resolution, Perception

• Human intensity sensitivity
• Response to intensity is nonlinear
• Gamma in cameras, CRTs
• Gamma correction
• Dithering
• Trade off spatial resolution for intensity res.

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Raster Displays, Resolution, Perception

• Sample (easy) questions
• A scene is photographed with a TV camera with
  gamma0.5 and displayed on a CRT with gamma2.4.
  If we want system gamma to be 1.0, we should do
  gamma correction with what exponent?
• You are doing clustered-dot dithering on an image
  for output on a 300 dpi laser printer. If you
  need at least 75 dpi effective resolution, how
  many shades of gray can you output?

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Color

• Perception of color
• Humans are trichromat
• Three cones sensitive to red, green, and
  blue
• Overlapping response curves
• Color matching
• Color matching experiment
• Metamers

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Color spaces

• Linear colorspaces
• ?, ?, ? space (perceptual stimulous)
• R, G, B space
• X, Y, Z space
• Non-linear colorspaces
• HSV
• Spectral locus
• Gamut of reproducible colors

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Color

• Sample questions
• Can your printer necessarily reproduce all colors
  that your monitor can reproduce if they both use
  RGB primaries?
• You are wearing glasses that block all light from
  the lower third of the visible spectrum, what
  color does the world look tinted?

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Sampling and Antialiasing

• The sampling and reconstruction pipeline
• Prefiltering
• Sampling
• Resampling
• Reconstruction
• Aliasing
• Frequency domain interpretation

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Sampling and Antialiasing

• Filtering and convolution
• Prefiltering vs. postfiltering
• Desirable filters for antialiasing
• Box, pyramid, gaussian, sync
• Methods of antialiasing
• Supersampling
• Analytic antialiasing

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Sampling and Antialiasing

• Sample questions
• What is the result of convolving a 1-D box filter
  with itself?
• If we want to be sure to avoid aliasing, should
  we choose a filter slightly narrower or slightly
  wider than a pixel?

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Digital Compositing

• The compositing approximation
• Conditions for validity
• Deriving alpha mattes
• Blue screen
• Computing while rendering
• Compositing algebra

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Digital Compositing

• Sample question
• You are doing the special effects for a movie,
  and need to composite a computer generated object
  over a live background. Why should you use an
  8-bit alpha matte rather than a binary (1-bit)
  matte, even if the computer-generated object is
  fully opaque?

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Rasterization

• Rasterization of lines
• Definition of one-pixel-thick line which
  points get rasterized?
• Rasterization of polygons
• Only pixels in the polygon
• Supersampling
• Patterns

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Rasterization

• Sample question
• If you rasterized this line, which pixels would
  get turned on?

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Transformations

• Homogeneous coordinates why?
• Matrices rotation, translation, scale, shear in
  2D, 3D
• Know the form of each kind
• Composing transformations
• multiply matrices in reverse order

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Transformations

• Sample question
• What is the transformation between vector1 and
  vector2?