This page does not represent the most current semester of this course; it is present merely as an archive.
This schedule will be updated as the semester progresses; it is likely only accurate about a week in advance.
All lecture notes (for all days) can be accessed in this combined listing
Intro
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Raster Graphics Raytracing, Scan-converting, and sub-dividing
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Color RGB, CMYK, Gamma, and Color Solids
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Image Files Image Compression HDR Exposure
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HW0: a program that can read input and save a png
add deadline 2D Scan Conversion DDA and Bresenham, Polygons; optionally Implementers Guide 1.3–1.5
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2D Subdivision Bézier, B-Spline (or NURBS), and other curves; optionally Implementers Guide 1.6.3
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2D Other More on curves, alpha; optionally Implementers Guide 1.7
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Math Primer review/primer on geometry, vectors, and matrices; optionally Implementers Guide 1.3
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2D leftovers and 3D Math blobbies, fragment shaders; homogeneous coordinates, transformation matrices, optionally one person’s take on how they fit together
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3D Pipeline visible surface determination and it’s linked sub-pages, especially the one on the Z-Buffer Algorithm; Z-fighting
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HW1: 2D rasterizer
Common Fragment Shaders Lighting, textures, bumps, etc.
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Ray Casting overview, optimizations; optionally Implementers Guide 2–2.4. Also clipping.
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Reading Day
Approximating Light BRDF, BRDF take 2, global illumination, ambient occlusion; optionally Implementers Guide 2.5–2.7
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HW2: 3D rasterizer
drop deadline HW2 due at end of day Raytracing Again
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WebGL: GLSL GLSL data types, minimal example
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withdraw deadline WebGL webgl example, twgl example and library
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Animation easing, squash and stretch, tweening, skeletal animation
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Advanced Tweening example physics-based animation paper and video
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On Humans and Animals the uncanny valley, hair, subsurface scattering
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HW3: raytracer
Image Manipulation flood fill convolution, Gaussian blur
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Image Manipulation seam carving, patch match, segmentation
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Fractals L-systems, trees
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Plants Figure 4 in this paper
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HW4: WebGL
Terrain Erosion; maybe also marching cubes and Delaunay triangulations; maybe Delaunay deformable models for concave terrain
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Fluids Navier-stokes; waves
Papers on gas and shallow water
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Fluids Lagrangain methods and elasto-viscosity.
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Thanksgiving Recess
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Crowds boids (example implementation) and extensions thereto.
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Forests and Seeds seeds; poisson disc and quite a few approximations
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Review You can enter questions here
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HW5: Image or Custom
Final Quiz (2:00 pm)
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