3480 - Computer Graphics - Semester Project
    Juan Trigueros

    My idea is ...
    
  A scene with ferns 

    This image shows my goal...
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    My computer graphics elements...
            1. Procedural Construction
            2. Recursive Rendering of OpenGL Primitives - for the self-similarity of the fern
            2. Affine Transformations
            4. OpenGL 2-D Texture Mapping - for the grass background

    To demonstrate my study...
            1. Lab 3 Pixel-first Rendering Framework 
            1. Lab 6 OpenGL Transformations framework
            2. Experimental renderings showing progress
            3. Final images of progress

    Here is the link from Google where I got the texture map for my background:
    Texture Map Image
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    Scroll down to see my progress...
    
    First progress image, before midterm conversation.
    Lab 9 was used for this image.
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    Second progress image, after midterm conversation.
    Lab 6 was used for this image, as well as for loops 
    to create stem and branches.
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    Lab 6 is still being used, I'm using transformations 
    to get other pieces added. Have started to experiment
    with iterated function systems, but it's buggy and 
    doesn't look good yet. Will update once that works.
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    Lab 3 was used along with the Barnsley fern wikipedia 
    page to create this fern. Affine transformations are
    being used to procedurally construct the fern. This
    is simply the code from the wikipedia page translated
    into C++ code that works by drawing pixels based on probability.
    
    Update: I have gone back to the lab 6 framework and
    will use that to create the type of fern I want to 
    render. Will update page with more progress soon. 
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    I am back to the lab 6 framework. I have changed
    how I am creating the fern though. As suggested,
    I'm now using rotations and recursion to render the fern.
    This how it currently looks, I'm still working on it. 
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    As suggested, I'm using one leaf and iterations along with 
    translations to render the other leaves for the fern.
    This is how it currently looks, I'm still working on it.
    Need to work on rotations and scaling to make it better.
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    Made progress with rotations to render the leaves for the fern.
    This is how it currently looks, I'm still working on it.
    Need to work on scaling and overall appearance to make it better.
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    These images show my final renderings where OpenGL Primitives were rendered using recursion and affine transformations, and where OpenGL 2-D 
    Texture Mapping was used for the grass background in order to procedurally construct a scene with ferns. The 3 ferns in these 3 screenshots
    are being drawn and scaled within certain ranges at random.


    

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    This image shows another final rendering where I increased the number of ferns from 3 to 5 in order to demonstrate that the program can render
    more if desired. However, as one can tell, the renderings overlap instead of being like real ferns where one is above another. I wanted to get
    that figured out, but due to lack of time was unable to.


    

        
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Quick update after presenting:

    These images show my updated renderings after presenting where I added more leaves to the top of the ferns to make them closer to real ferns.
    As it can be seen, the fern does look somewhat more realistic, but adding more leaves and scaling the fern resulted in distortions of the leaves.
    As mentioned during presentation, I am unable to easily get the fern to be curved like a real fern due to how I originally started to render
    the fern.


    

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    Lab-15 work done

    Made progress with scaling the leaves of the fern. Tried to scale
    them by multiplying by a scale value, but that broke stuff. Looked 
    online and found the glScalef function and scaled the leaves using 
    this function as the main loop progressed. I'm still working on the
    fern, but this is how it looks so far. Need to see if I can make it
    more curvy for its overall appearance to make it better.
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    My zoomed in mandelbrot fractal image from lab-12
    Also my logo image for lab-13

        
    mandelbrot fractal


    The ray trace image from lab-8

        
    ray trace


    The seamless gif from lab-8

        
    seamless gif


    The animation from my lab-6 is right here...


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