CS 4810 – Fall 2018 Schedule
This page does not represent the most current semester of this course; it is present merely as an archive.
  
28 Aug
Courses begin
intro
audio, video, slides.pdf
30 Aug
raster graphicsRaster graphics, Fish
audio, video, slides.pdf
4 Sep
Quiz due 12:00
colorColor, RGB, CMYK, Gamma, Color Solids
audio, video, slides.pdf, gammabox-row.png
6 Sep
image filesImage Compression, HDR, Exposure
audio, video, slides.pdf
7 Sep
warmup
11 Sep
Add deadline
Quiz due 12:00
scan conversionDDA and Bresenham, Polygons, optionally Implementers Guide 1.3–1.5
audio, video, slides.pdf
13 Sep
subdivisionBézier, optionally Implementers Guide 1.6.3
audio, video, slides.pdf
18 Sep
Quiz due 12:00
curves and alphab-spline, blobbies, alpha, optionally Implementers Guide 1.7
audio, video, slides.pdf
20 Sep
mathImplementers Guide 1.3
audio, video, slides.pdf
25 Sep
Quiz due 12:00
homogeneous coordinateshomogeneous coordinates, transformation matrices, one person’s take on how they fit together
audio, video, slides.pdf
27 Sep
3d pipelinevisible surface determination and it’s linked sub-pages, the Z-Buffer Algorithm, Z-fighting
audio, video, slides.pdf
28 Sep
2D rasterizer
2 Oct
Quiz due 12:00
fragment shadersLighting, textures, bumps
audio, video, slides.pdf
4 Oct
3d pipeline and fragment shadersvisible surface determination and it’s linked sub-pages, the Z-Buffer Algorithm, Z-fighting, Lighting, textures, bumps
audio, video, slides.pdf
11 Oct
Quiz due 12:00
raytracingoverview, optimizations, optionally Implementers Guide 2–2.4
audio, video, slides.pdf
12 Oct
3D rasterizer
16 Oct
Drop deadline
Quiz due 12:00
lightBRDF, BRDF take 2, global illumination, ambient occlusion, optionally Implementers Guide 2.5–2.7, optionally radiosity
audio, video, slides.pdf
18 Oct
raytracingoverview, optimizations, optionally Implementers Guide 2–2.4
audio, video, slides.pdf
23 Oct
Withdraw deadline
Quiz due 12:00
webgl and glslminimal example, twgl, twgl library, twgl example, GLSL data types
audio, video, slides.pdf
25 Oct
webglminimal example, twgl, twgl library, twgl example
audio, audio2, video, video2, slides.pdf, javascript.txt, twgl-inclass
30 Oct
Quiz due 12:00
animationeasing, squash and stretch, tweening, skeletal animation
audio, video, slides.pdf
1 Nov
IKwikipedia, survey paper, and beyond, and even more beyond, and beyond that
audio, video, slides.pdf
2 Nov
raytracer
6 Nov
Quiz due 12:00
volume representationEulerian vs Lagrangian, marching cubes, Delaunay, Alpha shapes
audio, video, slides.pdf
8 Nov
fluidsNavier-Stokes equation, paper on gas, paper on shallow water, Lagrangain methods, elastoviscosity
audio, video, slides.pdf
13 Nov
Quiz due 12:00
fluidsNavier-Stokes equation, paper on gas, paper on shallow water, Lagrangain methods, elastoviscosity
audio, video, slides.pdf
15 Nov
non-fluid physicswikipedia, cloth, cloth 2, ODE user guide chapter 3, slides from UNC, Baraff 1996
audio, video, slides.pdf
16 Nov
webgl
20 Nov
Quiz due 12:00
destructionwikipedia, meshless
audio, video, slides.pdf
27 Nov
Quiz due 12:00
real-time eye-candyparallax scrolling, shadow mapping, bloom, tone mapping, parallax mapping
audio, video, slides.pdf
29 Nov
CG filmographyarticle on steps
audio, video, slides.pdf
4 Dec
Quiz due 12:00
trees and terrainfractal dimension of landscape, diamond-square, simplex explained, Erosion, Delaunay deformable models, concave terrain
audio, video, slides.pdf
6 Dec
skin and leaveswikipedia, paper: BSSRDF can be used, paper: BSSRDF can be used with layers
audio, video, slides.pdf
7 Dec
Courses end
project
17 Dec
Final Exam

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The final exam schedule puts our final Monday 17 December at 9:00 am. The final is an in-person on-paper quiz administered in the usual classroom.