Course schedule

CS 248 - Introduction to Computer Graphics
Autumn Quarter, 2005
Marc Levoy
Handout #2

Here is the current version of the course schedule. It will be updated as changes are made. In particular, lecture titles and project names will become clickable shortly after a lecture is given or a project assigned. Readings should be completed before the date on which they appear in the schedule. Readings that are not in your textbooks will generally be handed out in class on the date they appear below.

Note: The dates and times of some help sessions have changed since this schedule was handed out in class. The table below gives the new dates. In particular, the Tuesday 4:15 help sessions have been moved to Wednesdays at 2:15.

Date	Lecture	Coursework	Reading
Tue Sep 27 Thu Sep 29	Introduction (or PPT or PDF ) Visual perception, raster displays		FvD 1, 4, 13.1
Tue Oct 4 Wed Oct 5 Thu Oct 6	Color theory, color spaces     A bit more on color, introduction to sampling theory	proj1 assigned proj1 help (PPT, HTML, PDF)	FvD 13.2-13.6 [Haeberli]   FvD 14.10
Tue Oct 11 Wed Oct 12 Thu Oct 13	Aliasing and antialiasing     Practical supersampling, and rasterization algorithms	proj1 demos proj1 writeup due	FvD 3.17.1-3.17.3     FvD 3.1-3.14 [Haeberli-Akeley]
Tue Oct 18 Wed Oct 19 Thu Oct 20	Practical polygon antialiasing, digital compositing     2D geometric transformations	proj2 assigned proj2 help (PPT, PDF, HTML)	FvD 17.6, [Blinn{16,17}]     FvD 5
Tue Oct 25 Wed Oct 26 Thu Oct 27 Fri Oct 28	3D geometric transformations     Image warping, texture mapping	proj2 demos proj2 writeups due midterm review	FvD 17.4, [Heckbert], [Beier]
Sun Oct 30   Tue Nov 1 Wed Nov 2   Thu Nov 3   Fri Nov 4	Viewing I: the wonders of perspective   Viewing II: mathematics of perspective	Midterm, 7-9pm bldg 420, room 040 proj3 assigned proj3 help     OpenGL help	GL 1, 2, 3 FvD 6 (skip 6.2,.3,.5.1-.5.3) GL Appendix D
Mon Nov 7   Tue Nov 8     Thu Nov 10	Visibility I: Z-buffer, graphics hardware Visibility II: scanline, area, list priority	proj3 proposal due	FvD 15.1-15.5   FvD 15.6-15.7
Tue Nov 15   Thu Nov 17   Fri Nov 18	Visibility III: ray tracing   Real-time programming (or PPT or PDF )	proj3 first crits	FvD 15.10-15.11, MH 13, 14 GL 7, MH 8, 9
Nov 21 - 25	Thanksgiving recess, no classes
Tue Nov 29     Thu Dec 1	Lighting I: illumination, diffuse reflection Lighting II: generalized lighting models		FvD 16.1-16.3, GL 5, 9
Tue Dec 6   Wed Dec 7   Thu Dec 8   Fri Dec 9	Volume rendering     Image-based modeling and rendering (or PPT or PDF)	proj3 final demos, game competition   proj3 writeup due, final exam review
Thu Dec 15		Final exam, 3:30pm, Gates B01

Readings: (*) starred entries will be handed out in class. For papers, if its title is displayed in your browser as a link, click on it to download the paper.

[BeierNeely] Beier, T., Neely, S., Feature-Based Image Metamorphosis ,
Computer Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 26:2, pp. 35-42, 1992. (*)

[Blinn16] Blinn, J., Chapter 16: Compositing - Theory,
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Sep 1994. (*)
reprinted from Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty Pixels. (*)

[Blinn17] Blinn, J., Chapter 17: Compositing - Practice,
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Nov 1994. (*)
reprinted from Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty Pixels. (*)

[FvD] Foley, van Dam, Feiner, and Hughes,
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice,
second edition in C, Addison-Wesley.
Click here for errata

[Haeberli] Haeberli, P., Paint by numbers,
Computer Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 24:4, pp. 207-208, 1990. (*)

[Haeberli-Akeley] Haeberli, P., Akeley, K.,
The Accumulation Buffer: Hardware Support for High-Quality Rendering,
Computer Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 24:4, pp. 309-318, 1990.

[Heckbert] Heckbert, P., A Survey of Texture Mapping, (PDF of text, PDF of figures)
IEEE Computer Graphics, 6:11, pp. 56-67, 1986. (*)

[MH] Möller and Haines,
Real-Time Rendering,
second edition, A K Peters, 2002.

[GL] Shreiner, Woo, Neider, and Davis,
OpenGL Programming Guide
fourrth edition, Addison-Wesley.