1. Computer Graphics & Architecture Barb Cutler

2. Toy Story [ Pixar 1995 ] First fully computer-generated full-length feature film

3. Motivation Effects of time Material properties Internal structure Artistic control

5. Tetrahedral mesh (volume) Triangle mesh (surface only)

6. Eiffel Tower Gustave Eiffel Salginatobel Bridge Robert Maillart gas station on the Bern-Zurich Highway Heinz Isler

7. Colonia Guell Antonio Gaudi

8. IL (ILEK) Das Model reconstructed Gaudi model University of Stuttgart

9. Improving Structural Form Kresge Auditorium, MIT Eero Saarinen 1/8 of a sphere (but NOT structurally efficient)

10. Improving Structural Form Desired ShapeCompressionCompression & Tension

11. Original Shape Efficient Form (using tension & compression)

12. Daylighting Design

13. Image from Henrik Wann Jensen Traditional Ray Tracing

14. Image from Henrik Wann Jensen Global Illumination

15. standard openingsplayed opening Skylight Shape This Old House Magazine, June 2005

16. standard openingsplayed opening Skylight Shape

17. Skylight Material matte white paintreflective metal

18. Fall 06: Daylighting Design Tools Interdisciplinary Workshop w/ Professor Dan Glaser (HCI) Computer graphics, architectural design, user studies, communication, etc.

19. Spring 07: Advanced Computer Graphics advanced ray tracing: global illumination, photon mapping, subsurface scattering mesh generation and simplification subdivision surfaces appearance models volumetric modeling procedural modeling weathering simulation: particle systems, FEM, cloth texture synthesis & more …