CSC 418/2504 Winter 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 Jan 8

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

Week of Jan 15

• 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 Jan 22

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

Week of Jan 29

• 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 Feb 5

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

Week of Feb 12

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

Week of Feb 19

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

Week of Feb 26

• 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 Mar 5

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

Week of Mar 12

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

Week of Mar 19

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

           Assignment 3 due

Week of Mar 26

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

Exam Week