Time and Topics

Notes

Assignments

Week 1
[Sep 16]

Introduction

Notes

Week 2
[Sep 22, 24]

• Image
• Tri-Chromacy
• Color Spaces
• Color Calibration
• An RGB Color Space program for windows.
• An HSV Color Space program for windows.
• Source code for color space programs

Notes Notes

• Homework 1 due next Tues.
• Programming Tutorial 1, 2

Week 3
[Sep 29, Oct 1]

• Color Quantization
• Dithering
• Signal processing for image editing
• Filtering
• Sampling and Reconstruction
• Notes on Floyd-Steinberg dithering
• Filter examples

Notes

• Homework 2 due next Tues.
• Programming Tutorial 3, 4
• Project 1 announce.
• Homework 1 Solution.

Week 4
[Oct 6]

• Reconstruction and aliasing
• Compositing
• Non-photorealistic rendering
• 3D Graphics Toolkits

Notes

• Homework 3 due next Thursday.
• Project 1 due Oct 21.
• Class cancel and compensate in the future.

Week 5
[Oct 13, 15]

• Transformations
• The viewing pipeline
• Window Space
• Canonical View Space
• Orthographic projection
• Defining cameras
• Reading: Shirley, Chapter 5, 6.1, 6.2
• Reading: Red Book, Chapter 3, "Viewing and Modeling Transformations",

 "Projection Transformations", and "Viewport Transformation".

Notes

• Project 1 due Oct 21.

Week 6
[Oct 20, 22]

• Defining cameras
• Perspective Projection
• Clipping
• Reading: Shirley, Chapter 6.3 - 6.5, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3.1, 11.4
• Reading: Red Book, At this point we have covered all the relevant portions of Chapter 3 of the OpenGL Programming Guide.

Notes

• Project 1 due Oct 22.
• Homework 4 due Nov 2.

Week 7
[Oct 27, 29]

• Liang-Barsky Details
• Weiler-Atherton clipping algorithm
• Drawing points and lines
• Visibility
  • Z-Buffer and transparency
  • A-buffer
  • Area subdivision
  • BSP Trees
  • Exact Cell-Portal
• Lighting and Shading – Part 1
• Reading: Shirley, Chapter 3.5 - 3.7
• "Basic Raster Graphics Algorithms for Drawing 2D Primitives", sections 3.9.4

Notes

• Homework 4 due Nov. 2
• Midterm at Nov. 2
• Project 1 Demo.
• Project 2 due Nov. 18
• Extra Slides related to draw points, lines, and polygons

Week 8
[Nov 2, 4]

• Midterm
• Visibility / Hidden Surface Removal
• Lighting and Shading
• "Elimination of Hidden Surfaces"
• Reading: Shirley, Chapter 3.6, 3.7, 7.1, 7.2, and Chapter 8
• Reading: Red Book, At this point we have covered all the relevant portions of Chapter 5 of the OpenGL Programming Guide.

Notes

Week 9
[Nov 9, 11]

• Light sources
• Shading interpolation
• Reading: Shirley, Chapter 2.11, 10.3, 10.4
• Reading: Red Book, At this point we have covered all the relevant portions of Chapter 9 of the OpenGL Programming Guide.

Notes

• Homework 5 due Nov 16.

Week 10
[Nov 16, 18]

• Shading interpolation
• Texture Mapping
• Mapping techniques
• Reading: Shirley, Chapter 2.11, 10.3, 10.4
• Reading: Red Book, At this point we have covered all the relevant portions of Chapter 9 of the OpenGL Programming Guide.

Notes

Week 11
[Nov 23, 25]

• Modeling
• Parameteric Curves
  • Cardinal Curve
  • Bezier Curve
  • Cubic Bspline Curve
• Reading: Shirley, Chapter 13 and Chapter 10.
• Reading: Spline notes that are a draft for the 2nd edition of Shirley's book. Comments on these notes are desired by Prof. Gleicher.

Notes

Week 12
[Dec 1, 3]

• Modeling with triangle meshes
• Obtaining polygonal meshes
• Hierarchical modeling
• Instancing and Parametric Instancing
• Constructive Solid Geometry
• Sweep Objects
• Octrees
• Subdivision schemes
• Reading: Chapter 2 of the OpenGL Programming Guide
• Reading: Shirley Section 10.3

Notes

Week 13
[Dec 8, 10]

• Subdivision schemes
• Implicit surfaces
• Animation
  • Key-frame (hand animation)
  • Motion capture
  • Procedural

Notes

• Homework 6

Week 14
[Dec 15, 17]

• Ray-tracing
• Soft shadows
• More hardware rendering

Notes

• Project 4 Introduction due 1/18

Week 15
[Dec 22, 24]

• More hardware rendering
• GLSL
• Image-based rendering

Notes

• Project 4 Introduction due 1/18