Announcements

• 18 January 2002
  • Reminder that presentations of final projects will be in CS105 12:00 - 2:00 on Thursday 24 January. Please be prepared to give a 10 - 15 minute presentation of your work.

General Information

• Professor
  • Adam Finkelstein (office hours: Tuesday 2-3), CS 422, af @cs.princeton.edu

• Teaching Assistants
  • Matthew Webb (office hours: M 6-8), CS 418b (the graphics lab), mtwebb@princeton.edu
• Lab Assistants
  
  be sure to check the newsgroup to see if TA hours have changed for the week
  • Brian Yeilding -- Wednesday 4-6, Thursday 3:30 - 5:30 Friend 017.
  • Muju Tsai -- Monday Wednesday 4:30-6:30pm in Friend 017.
• Times and Places
  • Lectures: TTh 11:00-12:20, room 302 CS. 
• Prerequisites
  • Data structures and algorithms (CS 226)
  • A good working knowledge of C programming (CS 217)
  • Linear algebra (as described in Appendix A of the course book)
  • No prior knowledge of graphics is assumed
• Keeping in touch
  • Send mail to the CS426 staff
  • Check out the pu.cs.426 newsgroup

Textbooks

• Required Textbook
  • Computer Graphics, C Version,
    Donald Hearn, M. Pauline Baker,
    2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1997, ISBN: 0135309247.

• Recommended Textbooks
  • OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL,
    Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, Mason Woo,
    3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN: 0-201-46138-2.
  • Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice,
    James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes,
    2nd Edition in C, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN: 0201848406.

Coursework

• Exams ( 30 % )
  • exam 1  Thursday, 25 October 2001 in class
  • exam 2  Thursday,  13 December 2001 in class (note time change)
  • Closed book.  Bring a one-page "cheat sheet" with writing on both sides
  • It will be similar in style to past year's midterm (ps, pdf)
• Programming Assignments (50%)
  • Assignment #1: Image Processing  (due 27 September ) class results
  • Assignment #2: Ray Tracing  (due 18 October) class results
  • Assignment #3: Interactive Modeling  (due 20 November) class results
  • Assignment #4: Keyframe Animation  (due 6 December)
  class results
• Final Project ( 15 %)
  • Written proposal (10 December 2001)
  • Presentation of proposal (10 December 2001)
  • Final writteup (webpage)(noon Thursday, 24 Jan 2002)
  • Demo day (12:00 -- 2:00 Thursday 24 January 2002)
  • Results can be found here.

• Class Participation ( 5% )
  • Contribute ideas in class

Lectures

Week 1

• Thur 13 Sept: Introduction, Raster Displays: Lecture 0, Lecture 1
• Readings: H&B 1, appendix A

Week 2

• Tues 18 Sept: Sampling, Quantization, Image Processing: Lecture 2
• Readings: H&B 2.1-2.2, 4.3, 15.1-15.4 14.4
• Thur 20 Sept: Warping, Compositing, Morphing: Lecture 3
• Readings: H&B 3.1-3.4, 3.11, 6
• More Readings: [Smith95b]``A Pixel is Not a Little Square ...,'' pdf
• Readings: [Porter84] ``Compositing Digital Images''
• More Readings: [Smith95a] ``Image Compositing Fundamentals,'' pdf
• More Readings: [Beier92] ``Feature-based Image Metamorphosis,'' pdf

Week 3

• Tues 25 Sept: 3D Rendering: Lecture 4
• 3D camera applet
• Readings: H&B 9, 10.1
• Thur 27 Sept: Ray Casting: Lecture 5
• Readings: H&B 14.6 7.3-7.4

Week 4

• Tues 2 Oct: Illumination: Lecture 6
• Readings: H&B 14.1-14.2
• Thur 4 Oct: Modeling Transformations: Lecture 7
• Readings: H&B 5.1-5.6, 7.4, 11.1-11.5, 11.7 12.1-12.6

Week 5

• Tues 9 Oct: 3D Rendering Pipeline: Lecture 8
• Thur 11 Oct: Clipping, Scan Conversion and Shading Lecture 9
, Lecture 10
• Readings: H&B 6, 3.1-3.4, 3.11, 14.2, 14.5

Week 6

• Tues 16 Oct: Texture: Lecture 11
• Readings: H&B 14.9
• Thur 18 Oct: Hidden Surface Removal (Visibility): Lecture 12
• Readings: H&B 13

Week 7

• Tues 23 Oct: 3D Object rep: Lecture 13
• Readings: H&B 14.9
• Thur 25 Oct: Midterm 1

Week 8

• Tues 30 Oct: No Class: Fall Break
• Thur 02 Nov: No Class: Fall Break

Week 9

• Tues 06 Nov: Subdivision Surfaces: Lecture 14
• Readings: [Zoran 00] "Course Notes: Subdivision for Modeling and Animation," Chapter 1, pdf
• Thur 08 Nov: Curves :Lecture 15
• Readings: H&B 10.9, 10.12-10.13

Week 10

• Tues 13 Nov: Surfaces: Lecture 16
• Readings: 10.2-10.9, 10.12-10.13 Exercises: html
• Thur 15 Nov: Solid Models and Procedural Models:Lecture 17
Lecture 18
• Readings: H&B 10.15-10.17, 10.22, 10.18-10.19

Week 11

• Tues 20 Nov: Animation: Lecture 19
• Readings: H&B 10.20-10.21, 16.6, 16.1-16.2, 16.4-16.5
• Thur 22 Nov: No Class: Thanksgiving Break