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Unit: Patterns

Geometry of dinosaur skin

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Start here!
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Introduction to Patterns
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What are shading packets?
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Voronoi Partition
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Distributing sites randomly
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Modeling dino skin
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Make your own dino skin 1
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Getting to know Ana
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Getting to know Beth
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Practice
Shading Packets
9 questions
Constructing a Voronoi partition
9 questions
Poisson disc process
5 questions

Painting with randomness

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Looking at different resolutions
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One dimensional noise
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Perlin noise (1D)
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Perlin noise (2D)
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Painting your dino skin
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Make your own dino skin 2
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Bonus Challenge
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Practice
Resolution challenge
4 questions
One dimensional noise
5 questions
Multi-resolution noise
6 questions
Two dimensional noise
7 questions

About this unit

To make the surfaces of characters or objects seem believable, artists at Pixar take basic patterns and use computer graphics to make those patterns more random. You’ll get to use randomness in this lesson, when you make your very own dinosaur skin!