CMP 161/L
Visualization and Computer Animation (and Computer Games)

Winter 2006
TTH 10 - 11:45am
College Eight room 252

Latest Information:

• 3/16/06 -- there will be labs friday, monday, and tuesday, see forum for details
• 3/16/06 -- games look quite impressive! excellent work! (grades likely ready next week, unforseen platform dependence issues abound)
• 3/14/06 -- stats on prog2 just posted
• 3/14/06 -- just posted robert hero's notes
• 3/6/06 -- just got confirmation that our final project demo will be in BE 109, from 8am-11am (the regularly scheduled final exam period).
• 3/6/06 -- starter code for prog3 now online, get hacking!
• 2/24/06 -- topics for 2nd midterm: animating orientations, physics, morphing, particle systems. there's a very wide spread in difficulty level of questions -- i.e. some questions are very easy (some questions are pretty lengthy).
• 2/23/06 -- Details for 3D Mouse project: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~shanerb/fre3space.htm
• 2/17/06 -- Here's an interesting article on speedy math for physical simulations: "Advanced Character Physics" (thanks Ian and Daniel)
• 2/7/06 -- announcement of graphics meets games competition at eurographics 2006
• 2/6/06 -- regarding slerps with extra spins, what i had on the board today is correct. here's a link courtesy of graphics gems 3.
• 2/6/06 -- collaboration with danm student cynthia
• 2/3/06 -- (a) draft for prog3 is now available. (b) info for final projects just updated.
• 2/2/06 -- Added showcase prog1 solutions here.
• 1/28/06 -- We have a draft of your first exam. It has 4 problems: interpolation, direct volume rendering, LIC, and isosurfaces. Exam will test your knowledge and understanding of the relevant methods.
• 1/27/06 -- lecture notes were just scanned in and linked, watch this space for info on 1st midterm.
• 1/25/06 -- Due date for prog1 moved to Saturday, January 28th, 12:00pm (noon)
• Old news

Course Information:

• Course Overview
• Course Schedule
• Links to on-line help
• Links to other online visualization courses
• Links to other online games courses
• Game related links

• Links to major conferences

• OnLine Grade Information

Programming Assignments:

• Program 0, due 1/12/2006, 10am
• Program 1, due 1/26/2006, 10am Extended to 1/28/2006, noon -- showcase solutions --.
• Program 2, due 2/23/2006, 10am -- showcase solutions --.
• Program 3, due 3/16/2006, 10am -- showcase solutions --.

Practice Exams:

• Visualization 2003
• Visualization 2005
• Animation 2003
• Animation 2005

Exams:

• 1st exam is scheduled for 1/31/2006, Tuesday
• 2nd exam is scheduled for 2/28/2006, Tuesday

Final Projects:

• General Information for Final Projects
• Approved Projects
• Projects Page: Winter 2006
• Projects Page: Winter 2005
• Projects Page: Winter 2004
• Projects Page: Winter 2003
• Projects Page: Winter 2002

Cool Links:

• Citroen commercial and who/how they did it.

Last modified Tuesday, 26-Feb-2008 09:21:08 PST.