3:30-4:45pm Tuesday/Thursday in 1105 Siebel Center
This page will contain online lecture notes, and any relevant supplemental material. Unless stated otherwise, all readings listed below are from the Angel book.
| Lecture # | Topic | Notes | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20 | Introduction and Image Formation | [pdf] | Chapter 1 |
| Jan 22 | OpenGL Essentials | [pdf] | Chapter 2 |
| Jan 27 | Polygonal Modeling | [pdf] | 4.1-4.5 |
| Jan 29 | 2-D & 3-D Transformations | [pdf] | 4.6-4.12 |
| Feb 3 | Viewing & Projection | [pdf] | Chapter 5 |
| Feb 5 | Illumination & Shading | [pdf] | Chapter 6 |
| Feb 10 | Texture Mapping | [pdf] | 8.7-8.8 |
| Feb 12 | More Texture Mapping | [pdf] | 8.10, 8.12.2 |
| Feb 17 | Clipping | [pdf] [pdf2] | 7.3-7.5 |
| Feb 19 | Rasterization | [pdf] [pdf2] | 7.8-7.10 |
| Feb 24 | Visibility | [pdf] | 7.11 |
| Feb 26 | Spline Curves | [pdf] | 11.1-11.6 |
| Mar 3 | More Splines | [pdf] | 11.7-11.9 |
| Mar 5 | Midterm Review | [pdf] | |
| Mar 10 | Midterm | ||
| Mar 12 | Quaternions | [pdf] | 8.7-8.8 |
| Mar 17 | The Vertex Shader | [pdf] | |
| Mar 19 | The Fragment Shader | [code][pdf] | |
| Mar 31 | Hierarchical Models | [pdf] | 10.1-10.5 |
| Apr 2 | Animation | [pdf] | 10.6 |
| Apr 7 | Particle Animation | [pdf] | 10.13-10.15 |
| Apr 9 | Parametric and Swept Surfaces | [pdf] | |
| Apr 14 | Implicit Surfaces and CSG | [pdf] | 11.1, 10.10.1 |
| Apr 16 | Images & Antialiasing | [pdf] | 8.11, 8.12.3, 7.12 |
| Apr 21 | Shadows and Global Illumination | [pdf] | 5.10, 8.12 |
| Apr 23 | Ray Casting | [pdf] | 12.1-12.3 |
| Apr 28 | Ray Tracing | [pdf] | 12.1-12.3 |
| Apr 30 | Color | [pdf] | 7.13 |
| May 5 | Volumes,Fractals and WrapUp | [pdf] [wrapup] | |
| Dicussion # | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 28 | Introduction and OpenGL Setup | [code][pdf] |
| Feb 4 | MP1 and OpenGL Transformation | [pdf] |
| Feb 11 | MP1 Arcball and VBO | [pdf] |
| Feb 18 | OpenGL Lighting/Texturing | [pdf] |
| Feb 25 | MP2 and Picking | [pdf] |
| Mar 4 | HW2 and Midterm Review | [midterm fall2007][solution] |
| Apr 1 | Texture/Normal Map in Shader | [shader texture example][pdf] |
| Apr 15 | MP4 Hierarchical Modeling and Particles System | [pdf] |
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