CPSC 414    Computer Graphics    January 2003

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.

Lectures Tue Thu 11:00 - 12:30 LSK 201        Jan 6 - April 9, 2003
Labs CICSR 011 ( Wed 9-10, Tue 1-2, Tue 2-3, Wed 8-9, Wed 1-2 )
Prerequisites CPSC 216, MATH 200, MATH 221/223, C/C++ programming skills
Grading Assignments (30%), Quizzes (30%), Final Exam (40%)    grades and distributions

Instructor Michiel van de Panne office hrs: FSC 2616, Tue 3-4pm
 TAs   Ben Forsyth    Dana Sharon    Peng Zhao
 Policies   attendance    plagiarism    late assmts    missed work    dropping    strikes
Resources online notes    textbooks    WebCT (bulletin board)    digital camera     past 414 sections    
OpenGl / glut OpenGL ref    Glut ref    Glut Win    About Glut  
Lecture Notes online notes    January    February    March    April   
Demo code openGLDemo.tar (10 K)    animDemo.tar (20 K)    lightlab.c    gltexdemo.tar.gz
Applets geometric transformations    metamers    triple-cell response    additive colour mixing   

Homework Homework 1    Homework questions    Homework solutions   
Assignments Assignment 1    Assignment 2    Assignment 3      414 Hall of Fame    Sept 2002    Jan 2003   
Exams Quiz 1 (Feb 11)    Quiz 2 (Mar 25)    Final Exam    old Exams   


News
April 29 2003

  • Final grades and distributions are now available online
  • the 414 "Hall of Fame" has been updated... see "Assignments" above
  • best wishes for the summer !