CS445: Computer Graphics

CS445: Computer Graphics
Fall 2008

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Course Summary

Lectures: MW 3:30-4:45 PM, Room: MEC 214

Instructor: Jason Lawrence - 212 Olsson (office hours: MT 1-3 and by appointment)

TAs:

Michael Skalak (mss6s) / office: 238 Olsson (Seat #8) / office hours: MW 1:30-3:30 and by appointment
Balaji Dhanasekaran (bd7n) / no office hours

Class Mailing List: cs445-f2008@collab.itc.virginia.edu (seen by all students)

Announcements

The number of late days has been extended to 10. This is the maximum number of late days you can use on all of the programming assignments combined. Turning in work beyond your available late days will reduce your grade by 1/2 each day as described in the grading policy. Also, keep in mind that late days can only be applied towards the programming assignments.
The fourth programming assignment is now worth 13 points; the exponential and logarithm maps are now optional.
The fourth and final programming assignment has been posted.

Course Description

This course covers the fundamentals of 2D and 3D computer graphics. This includes image processing, the modern renering pipeline, ray tracing, and animation. We will not study (and you are not required to have any experience with) graphics packages such as Maya or 3D Studio Max. You will instead come to understand the principles upon which those types of systems are built. All the software you use will be your own creation in C/C++ and you should expect to do a lot of programming.

Prerequisites

CS216 Program and Data Representation
Programming in C/C++
Linear Algebra

Suggested Textbooks

Hearn and Baker, Computer Graphics with Open GL (3rd Edition)
Shreiner et al., OpenGL Programming Guide ("The Red Book")

Acknowledgements

I gratefully acknowledge the use of slides and materials from Michael Kazhdan's course at Johns Hopkins University which builds on materials developed by Allison Klein, Tom Funkhouser, Adam Finkelstein and David Dobkin.