CS447/547: Computer Graphics

CS447/547: Computer Graphics

Instructor: Feng Liu	TA: TBD
Office: FAB 120-09	Office: TBD
Office Hours: WF 15:30-16:30	Office Hours: TBD
Email: fliu@cs.pdx.edu	Email: TBD

Announcements

03/14: Homework 5 solution available.
03/14: To-know list for Final Exam
03/11: Homework 4 solution available.
03/07: Homework 5, due 03/14/2012 in class.
02/27: OpenGL Shading Sample Code
02/26: Homework 4 available, due March 7 in class.
02/17: Project 2 available, due 5pm March 16.
02/13: Homework 3 solution available.
02/08: Homework 2 solution available.
02/02: Homework 3 available, due Feb. 13 in class.
02/02: To-know list for in-class Midterm (scheduled on Feb. 15)
01/23: Homework 1 solution available.
01/22: Homework 2 available, due February 6 in class.
01/18: Project 1 available, due 5pm Feb. 10.
01/18: Homework 1 due in class
01/08: Homework 1 available, due January 18 in class. No late homework will be accepted.
01/08: Please join our class mailing list. http://groups.google.com/group/cs447-winter-2012

General Course Information

Pre-Requisites: CS 202, MATH 261
Schedule: MW 16:40-18:30, URBAN 304
Syllabus
Grading policy: Homework (25%) + Project (30%) + Middle-term Exam (20%)+ Final Exam (25%)
Final Exam: 17:30-19:20, Monday (March 19)

Textbooks
	Fundamentals of Computer Graphics 3rd edition By Shirley et al. This book is required.		The OpenGL Programming Guide 7th edition By Shreiner et al. This is sometimes called as the "red book." The current edition is the 7th edition; however, for this class an older edition would be OK. If you don't want to buy this book, an older version is online in html.

Lectures
Date	Topic	Notes	Readings
03/14	Ray-tracing	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 4
03/12	Animation	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 17 Reading: Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation, by John Lasseter.
03/07	Spline	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 2.5 and 15
03/05	More Modeling Techniques	Notes
02/29	Mesh and Modeling	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 12.1 and 12.2
02/27	Texture Mapping	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 11
02/22	Lighting and Shading	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 10. Shading Sample Code
02/20	Hidden Surface Removal	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 8.2-8.2.3, Chapter 12.4
02/15	Midterm
02/13	Rasterization	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 8.1.1-8.1.2
02/08	More clipping	Notes
02/06	Perspective Projection Clipping	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 8.1.3-8.1.6 Shirley book Chapter 7
02/01	3D Transformations The viewing pipeline	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 6 OpenGL Red Book Chapter 2 and Chapter 3: "Overview", "Viewing and Modeling Transformations", "Projection Transformations", "Viewport Transformation"
01/30	Non-photorealistic Rendering 3G Graphics Toolkits	Notes	OpenGL Programming Guide Chapter 1 Painterly Rendering with Curved Brush Strokes of Arbitrary Sizes, by Aaron Hertzman.
01/25	Compositing	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 3.4 Compositing Digital Images by Tom Porter and Tom Duff (You need to be on PSU network or use a PSU computer to download this paper)
01/23	Sampling Signal processing	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 9
01/18	Image formats Color quantization Dithering	Notes	Notes on Floyd-Steinberg Dithering
01/11	Color	Notes Color Space Demo	Shirley book Chapter 21
01/09	Class overview Images	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 2.1-2.5, Chapter 3.1-3.3

Programming Resources and Tutorial

Homework: five homeworks totally. No late homework will be accepted.

Homework 5, due 03/14/2012 in class. Solution
Homework 4, due 03/07/2012 in class. Solution
Homework 3, due 02/13/2012 in class. Solution
Homework 2, due 02/06/2012 in class. Solution
Homework 1, due 01/18/2012 in class. Solution

Projects: two projects totally

Project 2: An Amusement Park, you must have your project graded before 5pm, March 16.
Project 1: Image Editing, due 5pm, February 10

Acknowledgment: We'd like to thank Dr. Stephen Chenney for sharing his course material. This course is based on his CS 559 Computer Graphics taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.