Content

We make a variety of content available to you to use with this assignment. This document describes the content we have assembled and gives you some information about how to make your own content if you wish to do so.

 


Provided

We provide you with a variety of images and animations for this assignment. Images are all stored in TIFF format; to view the images, use the xv or display program. The animations are in QuickTime format and can be viewed on SGIs with movieplayer.

 See the directory /usr/class/cs248/assignments/assignment2/content for what we have made available.

 


Making your own

If you wish, you can try making your own images or movies and using them in the video editor. Images must be in TIFF format; you can covert other formats to TIFF using convert. convert takes two command line arguments: the name of the original file and the name of the new file; it examines the file suffixes to determine which type the files are:

% convert bjork.jpg unbelievable.tif

 Converting animations is more difficult; read the man pages for dmconvert and moviemaker.

Note that the effects system isn't designed to be robust about handling images of varying sizes; if you're combining many different images together, make them all have the same resolution before loading them into the effects sytem. To resize images, run display image.tif, click the left mouse button on the image to get the menu, and select View/Resize... from the menu. All of the content that we have provided is 320x240 pixels.


CS248: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Pat Hanrahan, Fall 1998