CSC 418/2504 Fall 2007 Calendar

Below is the anticipated schedule, with the associated readings. The actual pace will vary depending on the class, and the readings may be altered slightly as the course progresses.

Week of Sept 12

• Lecture: Introduction: Raster Displays and Line Drawing, Parametric/explicit/implicit equations, circles, ellipses.
• Tutorial: No tutorial

Week of Sept 19

• Lecture: Polygons (triangulation, scan conversion, convex/concave, clipping),   2D affine transformations and properties, Homogeneous coordinates 
•  Tutorial: Into to openGL, C++, display technology, line drawing.
• Assignment 1 handed out

Week of Sept 26

• Lecture:  Animation principles, keyframe animation, Coordinate-free geometry, 3D modeling primitives and transformations,
• Tutorial: Polygon triangulation, scan conversion, clipping in detail..

Week of Oct 3

• Lecture: Composing and Inverting Transformations, Transformations as Change of Basis, , Scene graphs, Using Transformations in OpenGL, Camera models and viewer coordinates.
• Tutorial: 3D modeling primitives, transformations.
• Assignment 1 due

Week of Oct 10

• Lecture: , Perspective and orthographic projection,  Hidden Surface Removal, z-buffer, BSP Trees.
• Tutorial: Camera models, perspective.
   

Week of Oct 17

• Lecture: Lighting/Reflection: BRDF, geometry, diffuse reflectance, Lighting/Reflection: diffuse, ambient, specular 
• Tutorial: Visibility algorithms, shading in OpenGL
• Assignment 2 handed out

Week of Oct 24

• Lecture: Lighting/Reflection: Interpolative Shading, Texture mapping
• Tutorial: Midterm Review
  Midterm Test, In class (first hour).

Week of Oct 31

• Lecture: Ray Tracing: intro, ray casting, intersecting generic and deformed shapes 
• Tutorial: Midterm solutions, and Q&A for Assignment 2  
   

Week of Nov 7

• Lecture: Ray Tracing: Local shading, spawning rays (reflection, refraction, shadows), Ray Tracing with antialiasing  
• Tutorial: Raytracing.
• Assignment 2 due

Week of Nov 14

• Lecture: Advanced rendering, Smooth curves, Hermite curves, Basis matrix and basis functions. 
  Tutorial: Intersecting Deformed objects and CSG
   

Week of Nov 21

• Lecture: Bezier curves and surfaces, B-Splines, curve properties. 
• Tutorial: TBA

Week of Nov 28

• Lecture: Animation: Motion capture, and dynamics, Spring-mass systems.
• Tutorial: Review

• Assignment 3 due

Week of Dec. 5

• Closing remarks.
• Wooden monkey awards.

Exam Week