CPSC 314    Computer Graphics    September 2006

Tue Dec 12 2006

  • final grades now posted; please contact me ASAP regarding any problems
  • Assignment 3 available for pickup outside my office door
  • hall of fame from Assignment 3 now available
  • Happy holidays !
URLs http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs314     calendar description
Instructor Michiel van de Panne office hrs: ICCS x765, Tue 3:30-4:30
Lectures Tue Thu 2-3:30 DMP 110        Sept 5 - Dec 1, 2006
 TAs   Matthew Baumann   
Labs CICSR 011 (Mon 1-2; Mon 2-3; Wed 11-12; Wed 12-1; Thu 3:30-4:30 )
Grading Assignments (35%), Quizzes (30%), Final Exam (35%)    grades and distributions
 Policies   attendance    plagiarism    late assmts    missed work    dropping   

Assignments Assignment 0    Assignment 1    Assignment 2    Assignment 3   
Exams Quiz 1    Quiz 2    Final Exam (TBA)    Jan 2006 exam   
Lecture Notes lecture notes   
Homework Homework questions    HW solutions   
Resources WebCT    textbooks    past online notes    OpenGL ref    about glut    PDF glut manual     GLUT ref    
OpenGL and Windows     lightDemoMoving.zip    
Applets Transforms (Tuebingen)     scene graphs (Brown)     metamers (Brown)    triple-cell response (Brown)    additive colour mixing (Brown)    BSP trees (Symbolcraft)    

Past Sections May 2006     Jan 2006     Sept 2005     May 2005     Jan 2005     Sept 2004     Jan 2004    
Hall of Fame Jan 2006 Sep 2005 May 2005 Jan 2005 Sep 2004 Jan 2004 Sep 2003 Jan 2003 Sep 2002
Summary  
Topics to be covered include most or all of the following: the basics of 2D and 3D rendering; the rendering pipeline; scan conversion; colour models; geometry data structures; geometric transformations; perspective projection; hidden surface removal; lighting and illumination; texture mapping; texture filtering; complex shading algorithms; ray-tracing; animation.