CPSC 314    Computer Graphics    September 2014

URLs http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs314     calendar description
Instructor Michiel van de Panne     office hrs: ICCS x865, Wed 2-3:30pm or by appointment
Lectures Mon Wed Fri 1-2pm DMP 301        Sept 3 - Nov 28, 2014
 TAs   I-Shao Shen     Jason Peng    (available in lab sections, via Piazza, or by appointment)
Grading Assignments (40%), Midterms (24%), Participation (10%), Final Exam (26%)   
 Policies   attendance    plagiarism     late assmts    missed work    dropping   
   
Assignments A0     A1     A2     A3     A4    
Exams MT1     MT2    
Lecture Notes lecture notes    WebGL demos   
Resources UBC Connect (for grades)    textbook, WebGL, and OpenGL    past online notes   
Past Sections Jan 2014     Sept 2013     Jan 2013     Sept 2012     Jan 2012     Sept 2011     Jan 2011     Sept 2010     Jan 2010    
Labs
ICCS 005 (Tue 1-2; Wed 12-1; Thu 3:30-4:30)
In the labs TAs will review classroom material and help you with assignments. They may occasionally present new material, in which case this will be announced in class. Attendance is not mandatory, but is highly recommended.
Discussion  
We will use Piazza for all announcements, and you should use it for your own questions and answers about course material. Posting questions to Piazza is a better choice than sending email to the instructor or TAs individually, since we're all three monitoring the group - plus, your classmates may have a useful answers! You may choose whether to post questions and answers anonymously or using your own name. If you are asking a question that involves your own code, then please make sure to post it as a private question so that your classmates cannot see it, only the instructors.
Summary  
The course will provide an introduction to the theory and practice of computer graphics algorithms, including different aspects of modelling, rendering and basic animation. We will focus on the modern programmable graphics pipeline with vertex and fragment shaders. This course is the first in our sequence on computer graphics, followed by Modeling (CPSC 424) and Animation (CPSC 426) as well as several graduate CG courses.
    Topics to be covered include most or all of the following: geometric transformations; the rendering pipeline, including perspective projection, scan conversion, and hidden surface removal; lighting and illumination; texture mapping; colour models; geometry modeling and data structures; complex shading algorithms; ray-tracing; animation; graphics APIs; GPUs.
WebGL  
A significant change this term is that we will use WebGL wherever possible. Web GL will allow your code to run in any modern browser (including on mobile devices), with full access to the available GPU hardware acceleration. It will require learning basic javascript, which is currently one of the most popular programming languages on the web.