This page contains links to tutorials and introductions for useful concepts in mathematics, image processing, and visualization.
Unix Command Line Tutorial
- UNIX/Linux Tutorial for Beginners, University of Surrey
Digital Signal Processing
- The Scientist and Engineers Guide to Digital Signal Processing by Steven Smith
This free online text provides an excellent introduction to signal processing, including Fourier transforms, filters, sampling, and statistics.
Optics
- Physics of Light and Optics by Peatross and Ware
Brigham Young University provides this excellent open-source introductory optics text, written at the advanced undergraduate level. This is a great resource for understanding the basics of electric fields and light propagation.
Spherical Harmonics
- Spherical Harmonic Lighting: The Gritty Details by Robin Green
This is a tutorial specifically designed around implementing spherical harmonic lighting, and contains a good overview of Monte-Carlo sampling and the concepts behind basis projection.
Compressed Sensing
- An Introduction to Compressive Sampling by Candès and Wakin
This tutorial provides an excellent introduction to compressed sensing for people with a background in image processing.
Conjugate Gradients