06 | Geometry (Basic Representations & Curves and Surfaces & Mesh Processing) and Shadow Mapping

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0800

Instructor: Lingqi Yan | UCSB Bilibili: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1X7411F744 Lectures covered: Lecture 10 (Geometry 1: Introduction), Lecture 11 (Geometry 2: Curves and Surfaces), Lecture 12 (Geometry 3)

Geometry is an extremely important yet difficult topic in computer graphics. This post covers various ways to represent geometry (implicit and explicit), curves and surfaces (Bezier curves, B-splines, Bezier surfaces), mesh processing (subdivision, simplification, regularization) as well as the shadow mapping technique.

05 | Shading (Illumination Models and Texture Mapping)

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0800

Instructor: Lingqi Yan | UCSB Bilibili: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1X7411F744 Lectures covered: Lecture 7 (Illumination, Shading and Graphics Pipeline), Lecture 8 (Shading, Pipeline and Texture Mapping), Lecture 9 (Texture Mapping cont.)

Note: In the official condensed slides, texture applications (environment maps, bump/normal/displacement maps, 3D textures) appear in Lecture 10 and shadow mapping in Lecture 12; following the full Bilibili course structure, they are grouped under the shading topic here.

Shading is the process of applying material properties to objects, which determines their color and appearance under different lighting conditions. This post covers the depth buffer (visibility/occlusion), the Blinn-Phong reflectance model, shading frequencies, the graphics pipeline, texture mapping and related techniques.

Shadow-Mapping on Feynman's Blog

06 | Geometry (Basic Representations & Curves and Surfaces & Mesh Processing) and Shadow Mapping

05 | Shading (Illumination Models and Texture Mapping)