Due Monday 26

Read the Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat excerpt from The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and other clinical tales, Oliver Sacks, Touchstone. Read The Colorblind Painter excerpt from An Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks, Vintage. 1 page summary briefly summarize the two readings, 1 page (that is 1/2 page per reading), 12 point double space Continue reading Art and Illusion (friendly advice) Piranmesi tutorial 1, 2 and 3 (skip 2.4) Piranesi demo for PC Either send me a jpeg file of the resulting image or post-it on a web site and e-mail me address. the best is to make a screen-copy using the "print Screen" key and pasting the result in photoshop. Write a little comment on the software, pros and cons (Do not hesitate to complain). Feedback Send 5 lines (by e-mail) explaining the most important thing you've learnt in class this week, or the thing you do not agree about or the subject you would have liked to seedeveloped in more details. Illustrative image Bring or send as jpeg an image illustrating one of the issues covered during the lectures (Tuesday or Wednesday), e.g. 2D/3D. Discussion issue Send me one or two issues or reaction about this week's readings.

Due Monday 19

Read Photosurrealism excerpt from Advanced Renderman, creating CGI for Motion Pictures, Anthony A. Apodaca and Larry Gritz, Morgan Kaufman publisher, 2000 Read Jet Lighter, overcoming obstacles photo excerpt from Digital Wizardry, creative Photoshop techniques, Amphoto books, 1998 1 page summary briefly summarize the two readings, 1 page (that is 1/2 page per reading), 12 point double space Start reading Art and Illusion (friendly advice) Photoshop Enhancement of a photo initial photo problems goal advice and requirements Either send me a jpeg file of the resulting image or post-it on a web site and e-mail me address. Do not send me the much bigger photoshop file. include 5 lines describing what you learnt and what problems you encoutnered. Feedback Send 5 lines (by e-mail) explaining the most important thing you've learnt in class this week, or the thing you do not agree about or the subject you would have liked to seedeveloped in more details. Illustrative image Bring or send as jpeg an image illustrating one of the issues covered during the lecture or in the documentary (e.g. lighting, make-up, depth of field, etc.). Discussion issue Send me one or two issues or reaction about the documentary Visions of light we watch on wednesday, for Monday's discussion. Getting acquainted meeting Do not forget to take an appointment (fredo@graphics.lcs.mit.edu)

Due Monday Feb. 12.

This week, assigments will not be taken in and will not be graded. Read Introduction to Computer Graphics pdf Read Ansel Adams' example photo Photoshop Tutorials Lesson1.pdf and Initial image Lesson2.pdf and Initial image Lesson3.pdf and Initial image Getting acquainted meeting Do not forget to take an appointment (fredo@graphics.lcs.mit.edu)

Suggested talk topics

Caricature Cross-culture image studies Animal vision Animals and pictures Optical illusion Cinema lighting* Cinema editing and montage* The structure of scientific revolutions* Gestalt & Design* 4D and non-Euclidean geometries History of the understanding of human vision The eyes of the painters Non-Photorealistic Rendering in computer graphics Photography processing Stage lighting Make-up for photo, cinema and television Special effects for the cinema Art and anatomy Proportions Statues as 2D views Technology and style Art and fractal geometry Color harmony Cubism Specific aspect of human vision (face recognition, texture vision, etc.) Psychoacoustics and music Colors in nature Picture and poetry Evolution of the definition of art Children development

Essay

Discuss the relative merits of plain images and perfect reproductions of reality (e.g. holograms). Images as a language Creativity vs. constraint Imagine the ideal digital camera (regardless of technology). Focus more on the possibility to create artistic and expressive images than on reality duplication. The fusion of videogames and cinema (from the visual art point of view) Discuss how visual arts could be affected if the human visual system was different (e.g. possibility to see polarization like bees, tetrachromacy, compound eye, etc.)

Projects suggestions

Computer realizations Black and white photography processing software Photorealistic rendering enhancer. Gaze movement simulation Gestalt simulator Perspective as a set of constraints View camera/perspective demonstration software 3D lighting exploration software Tone reproduction Video or multimedia presentation Educational video of notions studied in class (or related) Explore a painting: how it was done, etc. Reflection and essay Propose bridges between artists and technology "Manual" projects Build optical illusions Psychophysics experiments Assessment of 3D rendering quality Limits of lighting coherence