| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Assignments |
| Wednesday, 08/24 |
Introduction |
Shirley (2) |
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| Monday, 08/29 |
Human Vision, Color and Basic Image Processing |
Shirley (20,21) Watt (15) |
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| Wednesday, 08/31 |
Image Filtering, Warping, and Sampling |
Shirley (4) Watt (14.1-14.4,14.9) |
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| Monday, 09/05 |
Image Sampling (continued) |
|
|
| Wednesday, 09/07 |
Image Compositing, Image Morphing |
Shirley (3.1-3.4) Beier-Neely Morphing Paper |
|
| Monday, 09/12 |
3D Rendering |
Shirley (2,3.5-3.8,7) Watt (1.4,12.1-12.4) |
|
| Wednesday, 09/14 |
Ray Casting |
Shirley (10.1-10.4) Watt (12.5-12.6) |
|
| Monday, 09/19 |
Accelerating Intersections |
Shirley (10.9) Watt (12.5) |
Assignment 1 due |
| Wednesday, 09/21 |
Direct Illumination |
Shirley (9.1-9.2) Watt (7.1-7.4) |
|
| Monday, 09/26 |
Global Illumination |
Shirley (10.5-10.7) |
|
| Wednesday, 09/28 |
Modeling Transformations |
Shirley (5-6) Watt (1.1) |
|
| Monday, 10/03 |
Scene Graphs |
|
|
| Wednesday, 10/05 |
Barycentric Coordinates (and some Texture Mapping) |
Shirley (2.10-2.11) |
|
| Monday, 10/10 |
No Class -- Reading Days |
|
|
| Wednesday, 10/12 |
First Midterm |
|
First Midterm |
| Monday, 10/17 |
Polygon Rendering Pipeline |
Shirley (12) Watt (5) |
|
| Wednesday, 10/19 |
Clipping and Scan Conversion |
Shirley (12.1-12.3,3.5-3.8) Watt (6.1) |
|
| Monday, 10/24 |
Shading and Visibility |
Shirley (8) Watt (6.2-6.7) |
Assignment 2 due |
| Wednesday, 10/26 |
Shading and Visibility (continued) |
Shirley (11) Watt (8) |
|
| Monday, 10/31 |
Texture Mapping |
|
|
| Wednesday, 11/02 |
Polygon-Based Rendering Wrapup + Brief Research Overview |
|
|
| Monday, 11/07 |
Guest Speaker: Dave Luebke (NVIDIA) |
|
|
| Wednesday, 11/09 |
3D Object Representation |
Shirley (13.1,13.3) Watt (2) |
|
| Monday, 11/14 |
Subdivision Surfaces and Mesh Data Structures |
Shirley (13.2) |
|
| Wednesday, 11/16 |
Parametric Curves and Splines |
Shirley (2.5-2.6) Watt (3-3.3) 2D Spline Viewer |
|
| Monday, 11/21 |
Parametric Curves (continued) |
|
Assignment 3 due |
| Wednesday, 11/23 |
No Class -- Thanksgiving Break |
|
|
| Monday, 11/28 |
Computer Animation |
Shirley (16) |
|
| Wednesday, 11/30 |
Course Wrap-Up and Research Overview |
|
|
| Monday, 12/05 |
Second Midterm |
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Second Midterm |