Question 1

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The contents of the standard 3D Printer file type contains a collection of surface
normals and:
3D quadrilateral strips
3D triangle strips
3D quadrilaterals
3D triangles
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Question 2
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Lenticular Stereographics works by:
Creating a mash-up of images from different views and refracting them out through a piece of ribbed plastic
Generating 7 stereopair images and making a View-Master reel
Creating a color coded depth image and using ChromaDepth glasses
Creating two views and looking at them through a special viewer
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Question 3
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The purpose of out and in variables (varying in the Mac world) in shaders is:
To pass a value directly from the fragment shader to the vertex shader
To pass values out of the fragment shader and have them interpolated into the vertex shader
To pass a value directly from the vertex shader to the fragment shader
To pass values out of the vertex shader and have them interpolated into the fragment shader
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Question 4
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What is “MoCap”?
It is a rendering technique that captures all incoming rays of light over and over again
It is a modeling technique that allows you to capture 3D scanned polygons
It is a curve-sculpting technique that involves capturing the user’s hand motions
It is an animation technique that involves obtaining motion data from special sensors worn by an actor
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Question 5
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Why was the Vulkan computer graphics API created?
To Live Long and Prosper
To create a higher-performance interface to the graphics hardware than OpenGL has
To create a C++ object-oriented version of OpenGL
To completely replace OpenGL one day
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Question 6
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In order to set a fragment color to pure magenta, and set the alpha value to pure
opaque (alpha=1.0), what would the output of a fragment shader look like?
gl_FragColor = vec4( 0., 1., 1., 0. );
gl_FragColor = vec4( 1., 0., 1., 0. );
gl_FragColor = vec4( 1., 0., 1., 1. );
gl_FragColor = vec4( 0, 1., 1., 1. );
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Question 7
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The one file format that all 3D Printers will accept is:
.obj
.stl
.svg
.3dp
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Question 8
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When two Metaball objects get close enough to each other, they:
Merge together
Repel each other
Attract each other
Get automatically converted into a 3D mesh
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Question 9
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The 3 major steps in running a particle system are:
Emit, Display, Update
Enter, Do-It, Update
Enter, Display, Un-Do-It
Emit, Do-It, Un-Do-It
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Question 10
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Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) involves:
Artifically changing the hue of object colors under colored light sources
Artifically brightening object colors at the tops of surfaces
Articially darkening object colors in crevices
 Artifically desaturating object colors to immitate the appearance of twilight
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Question 11
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Shaders play a crucial role in displaying images in a Virtual Reality headset
because:
Shaders are the only way to do texturing
We need shaders to discard fragments
We need shaders to get per-vertex lighting
We need shaders to get the correct fisheye lens image distortion
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Question 12
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The advantage of using Vertex Buffer Objects instead of glBegin-glEnd is:
They perform automatic geometry generation to save you time and work
They allow the GPU to draw your geometry more efficiently
You are no longer allowed to use glBegin-glEnd on desktop systems
They make better use of CPU memory
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Question 13
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In ray-tracing, why is it a good idea to limit the number of reflective bounces
allowed per ray?
Otherwise, you run out of floating-point precision
Otherwise, you get weird-looking artifacts with the lighting and shadows
Otherwise you run the risk of computing forever
Otherwise, you look like a graphics nerd
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Question 14
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The Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BDRF) is:
The pattern of multiple light rays that emerge from a surface after a ray hits the surface
The individual light ray that creates a texture
The individual light ray that emerges from a surface after a ray hits the surface
The pattern of light rays that create a texture
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Question 15
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Euler’s Simplified Equation for valid 3D meshes is:
F-E-V=2
 F+E+V=2
F-E+V=2
F+E-V=2
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Question 16
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What is the fundamental concept behind Ray Tracing?
The light intensity coming from a surface element is its reflectivity times all the incoming light energy
Using a Z-buffer
Using an R-buffer
The program fires a “bullet” through each pixel and sees what objects it hits in the scene
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Question 17
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In ray-tracing, a shadow can be determined by:
Tracing a reflective ray
Tracing a refractive ray
Ray-tracing cannot produce shadows
Tracing a ray from a point on an object towards a light source
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Question 18
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Bicubic Bézier surfaces are created by specifying:
12 points
4 points
8 points
16 points
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Question 19
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Using radiosity to determine the illuminations throughout the scene involves:
Solving a quadratic (2nd order) equation
Solving a quartic (4th order) equation
Solving simultaneous linear equations
Solving a quintic (5th order) equation
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Question 20
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A virtual reality Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) consists of:
Two monitors side-by-side
 A room with a number of walls onto which the 3D scene is projected
A headset with a single monoscopic image in it
A headset with two stereoscopic images in it
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Question 21
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Textures can be used in:
Both the vertex and fragment shaders
The vertex shader only
The fragment shader only
Neither the vertex nor the fragment shader
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IncorrectQuestion 22
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If you write a vertex shader that just consists of:

void main( )

gl_Position = gl_Vertex;

what will happen that is probably not what you intended?

The object will not be transformed or viewed, but will still be projected.
The object will not be transformed or projected.
The object will be transformed and viewed, but will not be projected.
You will get a GLSL compilation error
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Question 23
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To draw a cubic curve you:
Use the equation and vary t from 0. to an arbitrary number in some increment
Use the equation and vary t from 0. to 1. in some increment
Use the equation and vary t from an arbitrary number to 1. in some increment
Use the equation and set t=0. and t=1. only
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Question 24
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A vertex shader uses the gl_Vertex built-in variable. What type of variable is
gl_Vertex?
float
vec3
vec4
vec2
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Question 25
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In a cubic Catmull-Rom curve, what is true about the curve and the defining
points P0, P1, P2, and P3?
The curve gets drawn through all four points
The curve gets drawn between P1 and P2
The curve gets drawn through none of the points
The curve gets drawn through P0 and P3
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IncorrectQuestion 26
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Functional Animation involves:
Specifying objects’ most important positions and then interpolating between them
Specifying object positions to produce the transformation parameters
Specifying transformation parameters to produce object positions
Creating “fake physics” that convinces the objects to behave as you want them to
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Question 27
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How does Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) work?
You construct any kind of 3D solids
You construct an edited mesh with Lattices
You construct solid geometry as 3D Venn Diagrams
You construct a surface by sculpting
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Question 28
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How does one do texturing with GLSL shaders?
You give the shader the texture's Texture Unit number
You give the shader a pointer to the texture's array of RGB values
You give the shader the texture's binding handle
You are not able to do texturing with a shader
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Question 29
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The difference between Local and Global Illumination is:
Global Illumination takes into account an object’s own lighting and the lighting of other objects
Local Illumination has a maximum distance allowable between the object and a light source
Global Illumination can only happen with ray-tracing
Local Illumination takes into account an object’s own lighting and the lighting of other objects
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Question 30
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What is the Vertex-to-Vertex Rule that 3D Printer-able meshes must adhere to?
An edge must be bound by 2 and only 2 vertices
Every triangle must be bound by 2 and only 2 edges
Every edge must be bound by 2 and only 2 triangles
A triangle must be bound by 3 and only 3 vertices
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Question 31
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Keyframe/Keytime Animation involves:
Specifying objects’ most important positions and then interpolating between them
Specifying object positions to produce the transformation parameters
Creating “fake physics” that forces the objects to behave as you want them to
Specifying transformation parameters to produce object positions
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Question 32
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All of these are good uses for the Stencil Buffer except:
Placing the eye position on an orbiting planet
Outlining polygons
Implementing a Magic Lens
Performing Polygon Capping
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Question 33
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The first step in OpenGL shadowing is to:
Render the scene from the point of view of the light source
Render the scene as usual, but always use (0,0,1) for the up-vector
Render the scene as you usually would if you weren't doing shadows
Render the scene from the point of view of the origin
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Question 34
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In 3D Printing, an overhang is:
A place where the layer below you is wider than the layer you are at now
A place where the layer below you is thicker than the layer you are at now
A place where the layer below you is thinner than the layer you are at now
A place where the layer below you is narrower than the layer you are at now
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Question 35
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An L-system works by:
Creating a polygon list and recursively applying it
Creating a simple formula for drawing lines and then recursively applying it
Creating a computer science binary tree
Using 3D Venn diagrams
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Question 36
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What is the fundamental concept behind Radiosity?
Using an R-buffer
The program fires a “bullet” through each pixel and sees what it hits in the scene
The light intensity coming from a surface element is its reflectivity times all the incoming light energy
Using a Z-buffer
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Question 37
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In 2024, the SIGGRAPH Asia conference is being held in:

Singapore
Hong Kong
Seoul, South Korea
Tokyo, Japan
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Question 38
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The Corvallis AMC movie theater stereo display is created by you viewing the left
and right images with:
Special red-cyan colored glasses
Special blue-yellow colored glasses
 A special vibrating mirror
Special polarized glasses
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Question 39
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One significant difference between Vulkan and OpenGL is that:
Vulkan can do order-independent transparency
Vulkan cannot do texturing
Vulkan can do multithreading
Vulkan cannot use GLSL shaders
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Question 40
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In the shaders project, what did the line of code

Pattern.UnUse( );

cause to happen? (We're assuming OpenGL-desktop.)

The graphics system returned to the OpenGL fixed-function pipeline

The graphics system switched to a different shader
The graphics system disabled OpenGL and exits
The graphics system entered a "limbo" state where nothing will be drawn.
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