CMPS 160 – Introduction to Computer Graphics

Instructor:	James Davis
Office:	363 Engineering II
Phone	(831) 459-1841
email:	davis@cs.ucsc.edu
Office Hours:	Mon 4-6pm, or by appointment
Class Time:	TTh 4:00-5:45pm
Place:	Engineering II 194
Teaching Assistant:	Oliver Wang (o wang at (School Of Engineering Acronym) dot ucsc dot edu)
Lab Hours:	BE105 - Tues 6-8pm, Wed 1-3pm

Book

Hearn and Baker

Computer Graphics with OpenGL Third Edition

ISBN 0-13-015390-7

Links

Grading

Assignment One

Project Ideas

Meshshop SVN how-to

Final Study Topics

Final Project Submission Demo

Final Project Webpages

Schedule

Week	Date	Topics	Chapters	Assignment Due
1	Mar 29 Mar 31	Overview Visual perception, raster displays	1(skim), 2.1-2.3, 10.7-10.8
2	Apr 5 Apr 7	Line drawing, rasterization 2D Transformations, viewing, clipping	3.5,3.15(skim) 5.1-5.8	Lab - intro to openGL and first assign.
3	Apr 12 Apr 14	3D Transforms, pinhole camera <Social Justice at 99 Bottles>	5.9-5.18 readings
4	Apr 19 Apr 21	Perspective Visibility – z-buffer, scanline	6.1-3,7.1-9 9	OpenGL assign (Due in Lab) Proj. Proposal (Due midnight)
5	Apr 26 Apr 28	Lighting, Shading (local), BRDFs Aliasing, antialiasing Sampling Theory	10.1-10.7,10.10 4.17, 13.9, FvD14.10	Rev. Proj. (Due midnight)
6	May 3 May 5	Image Warping, Textures NPR	10.13-10.18, Heckbert [figs] Lansdown, Haeberli	Lab - Proj Check 1
7	May 10 May 12	Curves/Surfaces Color Models	8.[1,4,5,7,8,10, 11,12,15,19,20] 12
8	May 17 May 19	In class grading… Animation	13, Lasseter	Lab - Proj Check 2
9	May 24 May 26	Visibility – Ray tracing (TA Oliver Wang lectures) IBR, Volume rendering	10.11-10.12 Drebin, Levoy
10	May 31 June 2	Digital Compositing In class competition	Porter&Duff, Blinn[1] (Not required[2])	Lab - Proj Final