CS 4810: Introduction to Computer Graphics
Spring 2010


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Date Topic Reading Assignments
Wednesday, 01/20 Introduction    
Monday, 01/25 Human Vision, Color and Basic Image Processing Watt (15)  
Wednesday, 01/27 Image Filtering, Warping, and Sampling Watt (14.1-14.4,14.9)  
Monday, 02/01 Image Sampling (continued)    
Wednesday, 02/03 Image Compositing, Image Morphing Feature-Based Image Metamorphosis  
Monday, 02/08 3D Rendering and Ray Casting Watt (1.4,12.1-12.4)    
Wednesday, 02/10 Accelerating Intersections Watt (12.5-12.6) Assignment 1 due
Monday, 02/15 Illumination Watt (6.2)  
Wednesday, 02/17 Illumination (continued)    
Monday, 02/22 Guest speaker: Peter Shirley (NVIDIA/Utah)    
Wednesday, 02/24 Modeling Transformations and Scene Graphs Watt (1.1)  
Monday, 03/01 Scene Graphs (continued); Barycentric Coordinates    
Wednesday, 03/03 Texture Mapping; The Rendering Pipeline Watt (5)  
Monday, 03/08 No class - spring break    
Wednesday, 03/10 No class - spring break    
Monday, 03/15 Rendering Pipeline   Assignment 2 due
Wednesday, 03/17 Clipping and Scan Conversion Watt (6.1)  
Monday, 03/22 First Midterm   First Midterm
Wednesday, 03/24 Shading and Visibility Watt (6.2-6.7)  
Monday, 03/29 Guest speaker: Ed Clarke (CMU)    
Wednesday, 03/31 Texture Mapping; 3D Object Representation Watt (8.1)  
Monday, 04/05 Subdivision Surfaces and Mesh Representations Watt (2)  
Wednesday, 04/07 Parametric Curves Watt (3-3.3) 2D Spline Viewer  
Monday, 04/12 Parametric Curves (continued)   Assignment 3 due
Wednesday, 04/14 Computer Animation    
Monday, 04/19 Animating Transformations    
Wednesday, 04/21 Special Topics: Data-Driven Image Processing (Sean)    
Monday, 04/26 Quaternions    
Wednesday, 04/28 Parametric Surfaces Watt (3.4-3.6) 3D Spline Viewer  
Monday, 05/03 Final Exam Review / Special Topics: 3D Scanning    
Wednesday, 05/05 No class   Assignment 4 due
Tuesday, 05/11 (2:00-5:00PM, Olsson 009) Final Exam