COS 426:
Computer Graphics
Spring 2013
COS 426:
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General | Syllabus | Assignments | Final Project
| Week | Lectures (click for notes) | Readings | Assignments | |
| 1 | Tue 2/5 | Introduction & Color | Ch. 1, 2, 19 | |
| Wed 2/6 | Precept 1: Getting Started, Assignment 1 Part A | |||
| Thu 2/7 | Digital image processing | |||
| 2 | Tue 2/12 | Sampling, resampling, and warping | Ch. 6.15, [Beier92], [Smith95b] | Assignment 1 (part A) |
| Wed 2/13 | Precept 2: Assignment 1 | |||
| Thu 2/14 | Compositing and morphing | Ch. 5.3, [Smith95a], [Smith95c] | ||
| 3 | Tue 2/19 | 3D Modeling | Ch. 13 | |
| Wed 2/20 | Precept 3: OpenGL Intro, Assignment 1 Q&A | |||
| Thu 2/21 | 3D Meshes | Sections 1-3 of [Botsch07] | Assignment 1 (part B) | |
| 4 | Tue 2/26 | Subdivision surfaces | Sections 1, 2.1, 4, 5 of [Zorin00] | |
| Wed 2/27 | Precept 4: Half edge | |||
| Thu 2/28 | Parametric curves and surfaces | Ch. 14 | ||
| 5 | Tue 3/5 | Implicit surfaces and solid models | Ch. 15 | |
| Wed 3/6 | Precept 5: (nothing scheduled) | |||
| Thu 3/7 | Scene Graphs and Transformations | Ch. A.1, A.2, A.5, 7, 9, 11 | ||
| 6 | Tue 3/12 | More on transformations | Ch. 10.1-10.10 | Assignment 2 |
| Wed 3/13 | Precept 6: Review for exam 1 | |||
| Thu 3/14 | Exam 1: Covers through transformations | |||
| Tue 3/19 | No class this week - spring break! | |||
| 7 | Tue 3/26 | Rendering overview & return midterm | ||
| Wed 3/27 | Precept 7: More on OpenGL | |||
| Thu 3/28 | Ray tracing | Ch. 16, 21.1 | ||
| 8 | Tue 4/2 | Lighting and reflectance | Ch. 17-18 | |
| Wed 4/3 | Precept 8: Assignment 3 | |||
| Thu 4/4 | Global illumination | Ch. 21 | ||
| 9 | Tue 4/9 | Rasterization pipeline | Ch. 6 | Assignment 3 (part A) |
| Wed 4/10 | Precept 9: GLSL | Ch. 22 | ||
| Thu 4/11 | More on rasterization | Ch. C.3 | ||
| 10 | Tue 4/16 | Character animation | Ch. 12 | |
| Wed 4/17 | Precept 10: Assignment 4 | |||
| Thu 4/18 | Passive dynamics & particle systems | Ch. 23.2 | Assignment 3 (part B) | |
| 11 | Tue 4/23 | Active dynamics & Group behaviors | ||
| Wed 4/24 | Precept 11: (nothing scheduled) | |||
| Thu 4/25 | Non-photorealistic rendering | |||
| 12 | Tue 4/30 | guest lecture by J. Lu: topics in NPR | Assignment 4 | |
| Wed 5/1 | Precept 12: Review for exam 2 | |||
| Thu 5/2 | Exam 2: covers topics through week 11 | |||
| Tue 5/7 | No class this week - reading week! | |||
| Tue 5/14 | Dean's date: Final project writeup due | Final Project | ||
| wed 5/15 | Final project presentations (3-6pm location TBD) | |||