CS447/547: Computer Graphics

CS447/547: Computer Graphics

Instructor: Si Lu	TA: Thong Doan
Office: Fishbowl area	Office: Fishbowl area
Office Hours: MW 13:00-14:00	Office Hours: TR 11:00-12:00
Email: lusi@pdx.edu	Email: thong@pdx.edu

Announcements

new！ Final Exam: 11/29/2017 2:00PM-3:30PM with a doulbe sided 8.5 by 11 paper notes

Please pick a time for project 2 grading on 12/04, 2017

General Course Information

Pre-Requisites: CS 202, MATH 261
Schedule: MW 14:00-15:50, FAB 150
Syllabus
Grading policy: Homework (25%) + Project (30%) + Middle-term Exam (20%)+ Final Exam (25%)
Final Exam: TBD

Textbooks
	Fundamentals of Computer Graphics 4th edition By Shirley et al. This book is required.		The OpenGL Programming Guide 9th 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
W10: 11/27	Animation	Notes	Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation
W9: 11/22	Ray-tracing	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 4
W9: 11/20	Spline	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 2.5 and 15
W8: 11/15	More Modeling Techniques	Notes
W8:11/13	Mesh and Modeling	Notes
W7: 11/08	Texture Mapping	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 11
W7: 11/06	Lighting and Shading	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 10
W6: 11/01	Mid-term
W6: 10/30	Hidden Surface Removal	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 8.2-8.2.3, Chapter 12.4
W5: 10/25	Rasterization	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 8.1.1-8.1.2
W5: 10/23	Clipping	Notes
W4: 10/18	Perspective Projection	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 8.1.3-8.1.6 Shirley book Chapter 7
W4: 10/16	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"
W3: 10/11	Composition Non-photorealistic Rendering 3G Graphics Toolkits	Notes	OpenGL Programming Guide Chapter 1 PPainterly Rendering with Curved Brush Strokes of Arbitrary Sizes, by Aaron Hertzman. 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)
W3: 10/09	Filtering Resampling	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 9
W2: 10/04	Dithering Sampling Signal processing	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 9 Notes on Floyd-Steinberg Dithering
W2: 10/02	Image formats Color quantization	Notes
W1: 09/27	Color	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 19
W1: 09/25	Class overview Images	Notes	Shirley book Chapter 2.1-2.5, Chapter 3.1-3.3

Programming Resources and Tutorial

Homework: five homeworks in total. No late homework will be accepted.

Projects: two projects in total

Project 2: An Amusement Park
Project 1: Image Editing, due 5pm, October 27

Midterm to-know list

Final-to-know list

*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. The lecture notes were written by him and are sometimes slightly or moderately modified for use in this class.