Computer Graphics Project
My computer graphics project is done. Well, it was done last week. But I’ve only now gotten around to making a few screenshots and combining it into an animated gif.
The first project was to draw and animate a dinosaur using only ellipsoids (stretched spheres). In this last project, I worked with 2 people. We each included our dinosaur in the making of this project. Everything you see has been hand drawn using basic geometric shapes. Grass, water, sky/cloud and dirt textures were borrowed from the Internet. Each dinosaur may be moved independently. Each has a shadow that is geometrically correct, but does not match the light source (and it’s also slightly skewed…). Shadows are tough! The water is transparent and specular (reflective). And there are multiple light sources in the world. When a dinosaur is selected to be moved, a spotlight appears over it. As the t-rex moves closer to either of the other two, it shades to red; the other two dinosaurs also turn automatically such that they are always facing the t-rex. They animate at all times, either performing some arbitrary idle motion (tail wagging, neck bending, etc.), and their legs move when they walk. Very simple animation, but it works.
Here are some screenshots scaled down:
