CS447/547: Computer Graphics

CS447/547: Computer Graphics

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

Announcements

11/28: Homework 5 solution available.
11/24: To-know list for the Final Exam.
11/19: Homework 4 solution available.
11/19: Homework 5 available, due November 28 in class.
11/05: Homework 4, due November 19 in class.
10/30: Project 2 available, due 5 pm, November 30.
10/25: Homework 3 solution available.
10/22: Project 1 testing script file is available.
10/22: Homework 2 solution available.
10/15: To-know list for in-class Midterm (scheduled on October 29)
10/15: Homework 3, due October 24 in class.
10/04: Homework 1 solution available.
10/03: Homework 2 available, due October 17 in class.
10/01: Project 1 available, due 5pm October 26.
10/01: A free textbook for linear algebra from Prof. Jim Hefferon http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/
09/23: Homework 1 available, due October 03 in class. No late homework will be accepted.
09/21: Please join our class mailing list. https://groups.google.com/d/forum/cs447-fall-2012

General Course Information

Pre-Requisites: CS 202, MATH 261
Schedule: MW 16:40-18:30, FAB 150
Syllabus
Grading policy: Homework (25%) + Project (30%) + Middle-term Exam (20%)+ Final Exam (25%)
Final Exam: 17:30-19:20, December 3, 2012

Textbooks
	Fundamentals of Computer Graphics 3rd edition By Shirley et al. This book is required.		The OpenGL Programming Guide 8th edition By Shreiner et al. This is sometimes called as the "red book." The current edition is the 8th 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
12/03	Final Exam
11/28	Ray-tracing	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 4
11/26	Animation	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 17 Reading: Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation, by John Lasseter.
11/21	Spline	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 2.5 and 15
11/19	More Modeling Techniques	Notes
11/14	Mesh and Modeling	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 12.1 and 12.2
11/07	Texture Mapping	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 11
11/05	Lighting and Shading	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 10. Shading Sample Code
10/31	Hidden Surface Removal	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 8.2-8.2.3, Chapter 12.4
10/29	Mid-term
10/24	Rasterization	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 8.1.1-8.1.2
10/22	Clipping	Notes
10/17	Perspective Projection	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 8.1.3-8.1.6 Shirley book Chapter 7
10/15	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"
10/10	Non-photorealistic Rendering 3G Graphics Toolkits	Notes	OpenGL Programming Guide Chapter 1 Painterly Rendering with Curved Brush Strokes of Arbitrary Sizes, by Aaron Hertzman.
10/08	Filtering Composition	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)
10/03	Sampling Signal processing	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 9
10/01	Image formats Color quantization Dithering	Notes	Notes on Floyd-Steinberg Dithering
09/26	Color	Notes Color Space Demo	Shirley book Chapter 21
09/24	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 11/28/2012 in class. Solution
Homework 4, due 11/19/2012 in class. Solution
Homework 3, due 10/24/2012 in class. Solution
Homework 2, due 10/17/2012 in class. Solution
Homework 1, due 10/03/2012 in class. Solution

Projects: two projects totally

Project 2: An Amusement Park
Project 1: Image Editing, due 5pm, October 26

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.