COS 426:
Computer Graphics
Spring 2019
COS 426:
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General | Syllabus | Coursework
| Week | Lectures (click for notes) | Readings | Due | |
| 1 | Tue Feb 5 | Introduction & Color | Ch. 1, 2, 19 | |
| Thu Feb 7 | Digital image processing | [Smith95b], Sections 1-2 of [Paris09] | ||
| Precept 1 | Learning javascript | |||
| 2 | Tue Feb 12 | Sampling, resampling & warping | Ch. 6.15, [Hanrahan95] | Assignment 0 |
| Thu Feb 14 | Compositing and morphing | Ch. 5.3, [Beier92] | ||
| Precept 2 | Image processing I | |||
| 3 | Tue Feb 19 | 3D Modeling | Ch. 13 | |
| Thu Feb 21 | Polygonal Meshes | Sections 1-3 of [Botsch07] | ||
| Precept 3 | Image processing II | |||
| Sun Feb 24 | → | Assignment 1 | ||
| 4 | Tue Feb 26 | Parametric curves & surfaces | Ch. 14 | |
| Thu Feb 28 | Subdivision surfaces | Sections 1, 2.1, 4, 5 of [Zorin00] | ||
| Precept 4 | Halfedge structure | |||
| 5 | Tue Mar 5 | Implicit surfaces & solid models | Ch. 15 | |
| Thu Mar 7 | Scenes & transformations | Ch. A.1, A.2, A.5, 7, 9, 11 | ||
| Precept 5 | Mesh processing | |||
| Sun Mar 10 | → | Assignment 2 | ||
| 6 | Tue Mar 12 | More on transformations | Ch. 8, 10 | |
| Thu Mar 14 | In-class exam: content through week 5 | |||
| Precept 6 | Open office hour (Wed only; no Thu precept) | |||
| SPRING BREAK | ||||
| 7 | Tue Mar 26 | Rendering & Ray casting | Ch. 16, 21.1 | |
| Thu Mar 28 | Lighting & reflectance | Ch. 17-18 | ||
| Precept 8 | GLSL & Ray tracing I | |||
| 8 | Tue Apr 2 | Global illumination | Ch. 21 | |
| Thu Apr 4 | 3D Rasterization Pipeline | Ch. 6 | ||
| Precept 9 | Ray tracing II | |||
| Sun Apr 7 | → | Assignment 3 | ||
| 9 | Tue Apr 9 | Scan Conversion | ||
| Thu Apr 11 | Non-photorealistic Rendering | |||
| Precept 10 | Rasterizer | |||
| 10 | Tue Apr 16 | Passive dynamics & particle systems | [Reeves83], [Witkin01a], [Witkin01b] | |
| Thu Apr 18 | Character animation | |||
| Precept 11 | Rasterizer II | |||
| Sun Apr 21 | → | Assignment 4 | ||
| 11 | Tue Apr 23 | Games (guest: Andy Nealen) | ||
| Thu Apr 25 | Production F/X (guest: Craig Sylvester) | |||
| Precept 12 | Animation | |||
| Sun Apr 28 | → | Assignment 5 | ||
| 12 | Tue Apr 30 | 3D Fabrication (guest: Szymon Rusinkiewicz) | ||
| Thu May 2 | Project Proposals (in class) | |||
| Precept 13 | Open office hour (Wed only; no Thu precept) | |||
| READING WEEK | ||||
| Tue May 14 | Dean's Date: final project reports due | Final Project | ||
| Wed May 15 | Final Project Presentations I | |||
| Thu May 16 | Final Project Presentations II | |||