Instructor: Jane Mulligan

Grader:

CPSC 4229: Computer Graphics Design, analysis, and implementation of computer graphics techniques (with emphasis on the OpenGL API).

Prerequisites: Knowledge of basic linear algebra and CSCI 2270 (skills: C/C++ programming, transforms, projections, basic trigonometry).

syllabus.pdf

Text: Interactive Computer Graphics: A top-down approach using OpenGL (3rd Ed) -- by Edward Angel.
Supplementary: OpenGL: A Primer -- by Edward Angel.

Ethics: The Honor Code will be strictly enforced. Assignments are to be written/implemented individually. All parties handing in identical (copied) work will receive a grade of 0. Similarly if material is determined to have been copied directly from other sources (the Internet) the grade will be 0.

Topics :

• Overview (Ch 1):
  • Applications, equipment, architectures.
  • Image Formation
• Intro to OpenGL/GLUT (Ch 2)
  • 2D systems, primitives and attributes.
  • Basic colour, basic viewing.
• Input devices and interaction (Ch 3)
  • Display lists
  • Event driven and interactive systems
• Geometry and transformations (Ch 4)
  • Geometric objects and 3D primitives
  • Transformations
• Generating views: (Ch 5)
  • Projections
  • Viewpoints
• Shading (Ch 6)
  • Reflectance: light and matter
  • Light sources and surface orientation
  • Shading algorithms
• Texture mapping (Ch 7.6)
• Curves and Surfaces (in brief, Ch 10)
• Animation (Ch 9.6)
• Scene Graphs (Ch 9.8)
• Compositing (Ch 7.9)
• Basic Rendering (Ch 8)
  • Tasks: Modelling, geometry, rasterization, display
  • Clipping
  • Hidden surface removal
  • Scan conversion and antialiasing

Grading:

• Assignments: 50%
• Midterm: 0% -- replaced by assignment 3/10/04
• Project: 50%

Late assignments will be penalized 10% per day after the due date.

Notes etc

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OpenGL Stuff

• Angel's (text author) OpenGL resources .
• Direct link to MESA resources for linux/Unix.
• Panther OpenGL for Macintosh.
• Win32 GLUT , OpenGL 95 .
• Online OpenGL Reference Manual.
• Chris Poyzer's Makefile for CSEL Labs.

Assignments

1. Exercises 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.7, Due Jan 22 in Class. Solutions.
2. Write an OpenGL Program (using GLUT) to draw the Koch Snowflake in red on a white background (refer to Exercise 2.6). Start with a triangle with vertices (-1, -.5), (0, 1.23) and (1, -.5) and run 5 subdivisions. Ensure that the entire curve is visible in the window. Hand in your code via e-mail, by Feb 3. Be sure your name is in the file.
3. 3D rendering and interaction, Fractal Terrain.
4. Shading, Bunny Shading , bunny data file , ply io tarball , and a smaller cube test file .
5. Marks.

Project Description

• Stanford BVH Motion capture archive

Accommodations and Policies

If you qualify for accommodations because of a disability, please submit to me a letter from Disability Services in a timely manner so that your needs may be addressed. Disability Services determines accommodations based on documented disabilities. (303-492-8671, Willard 322).

Any students who have conflicts with scheduled exams, assignments or required attendance because of religious obligations should contact the instructor as soon as the course due dates are posted in order that alternate arrangements can be made.