Schedule & Notes

Lectures:

Section L0101 T12-2 (Tutorial M12)

Section L5101 W12-2 (Tutorial W6)

• See the assignments page for a tentative assignment schedule
• Links to lecture slides are required readings.
  These links are available before each lecture (but may be minimally altered for the lecture).
• Online notes present the slides in greater detail and are strongly suggested reading.
• Sections under the Textbook column refer to strongly suggested readings from Shirley's textbook.
• External links point to online resources (e.g., Wikipedia and MathWorld) that you may find helpful. They are not required readings.

Part I: Basic Graphics Primitives
Week 1
	Lecture topic	Sub-topic	Online notes	Textbook	External links
	Tutorial	No tutorial this week
	Introduction & raster operations [slides, slides_6up]	Line drawing, 2D polygons, parametric 2D curves (circle, ellipse)	Introduction to Graphics; Curves;	3.1-3.5; 2.5-2.6	Leonid's slides; Computer display; Raster graphics; Bresenham's line algorithm; List of curves; Ellipse; Polygon;
Week 2
	Tutorial	C++, OpenGL and Hierarchical Models
	Interpolation and 2D Transformations [slides, slides_6up]	Rigid, conformal, affine transformations. Homogeneous coordinates. Coordinate-free geometry.	2D Transformations; Coordinate-Free Geometry;	6.1; 2.4; 6.3	General Transformations; Affine transformations;
Week 3
	Tutorial	C++, OpenGL and Hierarchical Models
	3D Surfaces [slides, slides_6up]	Planes, tangents, normals, bilinear patches, quadrics/superquadrics. 3D transformations.	3D Objects;	2.9-2.11; 13.1; 6.2	Plane; Cylinder; Surface of revolution; Quadric; Normal Vector; Surface parameterization;
Part II: Viewing in 3D
Week 4
	Tutorial	3D meshes, cylinders, surfaces of revolution		2.11
	Camera models and 3D transformations [slides, slides_6up] maya file	Viewer coordinates. Perspective and orthographic projections. Pseudo-depth.	Camera Models;	7.2-7.3; 7.3-7-5	Camera transforms (OpenGL FAQ);
Week 5
	Tutorial	Life of a polygon: object, world, camera coordinates, homogeneous projection, 3D view volume		7.1-7.2; 12.1
	Visibility [slides, slides_6up]	HSR and z-buffer. Spatial partitions, BSP trees	Visibility;	8.1-8.2	View volume applet (Brown);
Part III: Appearance Modeling and Rendering
Week 6
	Tutorial	Life of a polygon - homogeneous perspective, clipping, visibility, backfaces, BSP trees. Background and OpenGL for A2		12.3-12.4
	Lighting and reflection[slides, slides_6up]	Diffuse, ambient, specular, and Phong models. Interpolative shading.	Basic Lighting and Reflection; Interpolative Shading;	9.1-9.2; 2.10-2.11; 3.6; 9.2; 11.1-11.4
Week 7
	Tutorial	Lighting and texturing in OpenGL
	Catmull-Romm Spline Interpolation [Slides]   Animation [slides, slides_6up]	review of concepts for MIDTERM + Catmull-Romm splines  + Key-framing, parametric curves, motion capture. Data-driven and Physics-based animation
Week 8
	Tutorial   [Slides][code]	MIDTERM
	Ray tracing[slides, slides_6up]	Basic ray tracing algorithm. Computing ray-plane intersections.	Basic Ray Tracing;	10.1-10.7
Week 9
	Tutorial	Refraction and transmission. Ray trace pseudo-code		10.8, 10.10
	Advanced ray-tracing and global illumination.[slides, slides_6up]	Refraction, Distributed/stochastic ray-tracing, Backwards ray-tracing (caustics), radiosity.	Distribution Ray Tracing;	24.1-24.2
Part IV: Interpolation and Animation
Week 10-11
	Tutorial	Curves
	Curves and Interpolation [slides, slides_6up]	Polynomial interpolation, Cardinal (Catmull-Rom) splines, bezier, b-splines, hermite splines.	Interpolation; Smooth Curves and Surfaces;	15.1-15.3, 15.6.1, 15.4-15.5	1D Polynomial interpolation applet; Catmull-Rom applet; Bézier curve applet (UNC); Bézier curve applet (Brown); Bézier patch applet (OGI); Bézier patch applet (Cornell);
Week 12
	Tutorial	Final exam review
	[Summary Slides]	Wooden Monkey presentation, Summary		16.1-16.2, 16.4-16.5; Lasseter