Special Undergraduate Colloquium
Thursday, April 10 at 4 pm
Mathematics 501

Kevin Wampler, Mathematics and Computer Science major at the U of A
 

Perhaps nowhere else is the connection between mathematics and art made so explicit as it is in computer graphics.  In this field there are countless examples of uncovering the mathematical nature of objects which are portrayed in art, and of the techniques employed in the creation of an artistic piece.  A few small examples of modeling and rendering in this union between mathematics, art and computers will be presented.

Posted April 11

Kevin Wampler handed out a paper he wrote for his talk.  Those who did not get a copy of the paper may download it here.  It includes references that some people requested.
 

• Here is a Postscript version of the paper (3.2 MB and better display of graphics)
• Here is an Adobe Acrobat version of the paper (1.1 MB)

Links
Kevin also provided several links on topics that he covered in his talk.  These include many of the images that Kevin showed.

Lparser:        http://home.wanadoo.nl/laurens.lapre/lparser.htm
Povray:         http://www.povray.org/
Gilles Tran:    http://www.oyonale.com/oy_en.htm
Mick Hazelgrove http://www.mhazelgrove.fsnet.co.uk/
Kevin Wampler
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~wamplerk/pov_images/pov_images.html[broken link, 2004/12/03]
Pete Barnett    http://www.pjbcn.demon.co.uk/gallery.htm
Godwin Vickers  http://www.hypercomplex.org/
Ocean Waves:    http://web.archive.org/web/20030116092504/http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/fournier/natural.html