Second Midterm Exam

The second midterm exam will cover chapters 8 - 12 in the textbook. The format for this exam will be similar to that of the first midterm: I will ask a series of short-answer questions that focus on the key concepts in these chapters. I will not be asking you to write code on the exam.

Topics to review

To prepare for the exam, please review the following topics from the text:

• How does shadow mapping work?
• How can you create softer shadows?
• How do you implement a sky box?
• How does bump mapping work? How do you set up a surface coordinate system for use in bump mapping?
• How do you generate a cubic Bezier surface from a grid of control points?
• How does tessellation work in OpenGL?