15-462 Syllabus for Fall 2004

This is a tentative syllabus. Slides, handouts, and updates will be available through the course web page.

Week of	Tue	Thu
Aug 31	What is Computer Graphics? Reading: Shirley Ch1	Math for Computer Graphics Reading: Shirley Ch2 Written HW #1 OUT
Sept 7	Graphics Pipeline and Rasterization Reading: Shirley Ch3	OpenGL and Programming Asst #1 Reading: OpenGL 'Red Book' Ch1,2 Written HW #1 DUE (solutions) Programming Asst #1 OUT
Sept 14	Linear Algebra / Transformations Reading: Shirley Ch4,5, OpenGL 'Red Book' Ch3 Review questions	Viewing Reading: Shirley Ch6
Sept 21	Hidden Surface Elimination Reading: Shirley Ch7 Programming Asst #1 DUE Written HW #2 OUT	Shading Models (Mark Tomczak) Reading: Shirley Ch8, OpenGL 'Red Book' Ch5 Review questions
Sept 28	Curves and Surfaces and Programming Asst #2 Reading: Shirley Ch13, OpenGL 'Red Book' Ch3 Written HW #2 DUE (solutions) Programming Asst #2 OUT	Simulating Rigid Body Physics
Oct 5	Texture Mapping Reading: Shirley Ch10, OpenGL 'Red Book' Ch9 Review questions	Light Reading: Shirley Ch16
Oct 12	Human Vision and Color Reading: Shirley Ch17,18, OpenGL 'Red Book' Ch4 Programming Asst #2 DUE Slides shown in class Slides from Maureen Stone's SIGGRAPH 2004	Midterm Review
Oct 19	Midterm Exam (in class)	Hand back midterm / review solutions
Oct 26	Ray Tracing I (Mark Tomczak) Reading: Shirley Ch9 Programming Asst #3 OUT Review Questions	Ray Tracing II Written HW #3 OUT Review Questions
Nov 2	Data Structures for Graphics / Spatial Data Structures Reading: Shirley Ch12, 7.1	Sampling and Antialiasing Blinn articles on aliasing: #1 #2 Reading: Shirley Ch14,15 Written HW #3 DUE (solutions)
Nov 9	Radiosity Reading: Shirley Ch19 Review Questions	Global Illumination Metropolis Light Transport
Nov 16	Image-Based Rendering (Hua Zhong) Reading: Shirley Ch22 Programming Asst #3 DUE Review Questions	Texture Synthesis Programming Asst #4 OUT Review Questions
Nov 23	A top-down view of computer graphics algorithms (Bei Yang) Nonphotorealistic Rendering Review Questions	THANKSGIVING BREAK (NO CLASS)
Nov 30	Programming Video Games (Steven Osman) Review Questions	Animation I Review Questions
Dec 7	Animation II Programming Asst #4 DUE Andy Witkins particle system slides Review Questions	Course Review
Dec 16	Final Exam 1:00pm--4:00pm BH 136A	---