CS 594 Computer Graphics Schedule

In the following sequence, this semester we will discuss these aspects of computer graphics:

• General Introduction
• Geometry Processing
• Rasterization and texturing
• Advanced Lighting and Shading
• Shaders, shading language and graphics Architecture
• Performance Techniques
• Introduction to Other Advanced Topics

The week by week schedule given below is tentative. This semester's slides have been updated from previous years.

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Week 1: 08/21, 26

• introduction; intro to display devices and color space; (read Chapters 1, 2.3, 2.4, 20)

Week 2: 08/28, 09/02 (Lab1 assignment handed out on 09/02)

• continued discussion of display devices and color space. start discussing 3D object generation and geometric modeling methods, affine transformation, transformation between coordinate systems, 3D viewing; (read Chapters 6 and 7. For more in-depth background: Chapter 2.5-2.8 parametric surfaces, Chapter 5 linear algebra); slides

Week 3: 09/04, 09 (Lab1 prelim due on 09/09)

• intro to OpenGL  (read red book, Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, Appendix D, slides);
• rasterization algorithms, (read Chapters 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, slides)
• clipping, transforming normals (read Chapter 12.1, Appendix F in the red book, slides).

Week 4:09/11, 16 (Lab 1 due on 09/16)

• visible surface algorithms: back face culling, image order: z-buffer, scan line algorithms, object order,  list priority, depth-sort, BSP (handouts, slides)

Week 5: 09/18, 23 (Lab 2 handed out on 09/23)

• basic illumination and shading (Gouraud & Phong) different light sources (read 4.1-3, redbook chapter 4, 5, slides)
• texture mapping 1(read Chapter 11 slides )

Week 6: 09/25, 30

• texture mapping 2; (read Chapter 11 and red book Chapter 9, slides)
• advanced OpenGL techniques (red book, Chapters 6.1, 9.5, 9.6, 10, slides)

Week 7: 10/02, 07

• procedural textures, solid textures, turbulence. (handouts, slides)
• shading language and shaders(slides, and see handouts)

Week 8: 10/09, 14, 16 no class on 10/09 (fall break)

• More on shading language
• shadow generation  (read Chapter 9, slides), multi-pass rendering: shadow map and bump map (read 11.5, 11.8)

Week 9: 10/21, 23, no class on 10/21

• Midterm on 10/23

Week 10: 10/28, 30:

• semi-transparency, compositing, refraction, Snell's law, ray-tracing primer (read 10.1, 10.4, 10.5, 10.11), slides)
• anti-aliasing (read 4.1-4.5, slides)

Week 11: 11/04, 06

• continue with anti-aliasing

Week 12: 11/11, 13 (no class on 11/11)

• intro to NPR, slides

Week 13: 11/18, 20

• BRDF (reach Chapter 7), rendering equation, Monte-Carlo methods, distributed ray-tracing, path/cone tracing (read 10.1, 19.2, 23.2 (slides)
• image-based rendering (read 25.1, 25.2) slides
• radiosity: concepts, form factors, hemicube, progressive refinement (slides)

Week 14: 11/25, 27

• local reflection models, Blinn-Cook-Torrance model; (handouts, slides)
• intro graphics architecture, OpenGL performance techniques  (slides)
• scenegraphs, Quadtree, Octree, k-d tree, quaternions  (read Chapter 13, slides)

Week 15: 12/02

• Last day of class 12/02: rendering cook-off  

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Last updated 08/19/2008