CSC 418/2504 Fall 2004 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 13

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

Week of Sept 20

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

Week of Sept 27

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

Week of Oct 4

• 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 11

• Lecture: , Perspective and orthographic projection,  Hidden Surface Removal, z-buffer, BSP Trees.
• Tutorial: Camera models, perspective.
  Assignment 2 handed out

Week of Oct 18

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

Week of Oct 25

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

Week of Nov 1

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

Week of Nov 8

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

Week of Nov 15

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

Week of Nov 22

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

           Assignment 3 due

Week of Nov 29

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

Exam Week