Course schedule

CS 248 - Introduction to Computer Graphics
Autumn Quarter, 2001
Marc Levoy
Handout #2

Here is the current version of the course schedule. It will be updated as changes are made. In particular, lecture titles and project names will become clickable shortly after a lecture is given or a project assigned. Readings should be completed before the date on which they appear in the schedule. Readings that are not in your textbooks will generally be handed out in class on the date they appear below.

Date	Lecture	Coursework	Reading
Thu Sep 27	Introduction (or PPT or PDF )
Tue Oct 2 Thu Oct 4 Fri Oct 5	Visual perception, raster displays Color theory, colorspaces	proj1 assigned proj1 help session	FvD 1, 4 FvD 13.2-13.6 [Haeberli]
Tue Oct 9 Thu Oct 11	A bit more on color, and Grayscale, gamma, dithering Sampling theory, aliasing		FvD 13.1 FvD 14.10
Mon Oct 15 Tue Oct 16 Thu Oct 18 Fri Oct 19	Antialiasing strategies Practical supersampling, and rasterization algorithms	proj1 demos proj1 writeup due proj2 assigned proj2 help session	FvD 3.17.1-3.17.3 FvD 3.1-3.14 [Haeberli-Akeley]
Tue Oct 23 Thu Oct 25	Practical analytical antialiasing, digital compositing 2D geometric transformations		FvD 17.6, [Blinn16], [Blinn17] FvD 5
Tue Oct 30 Thu Nov 1 Fri Nov 2	3D geometric transformations Image warping, texture mapping	proj2 due midterm review	FvD 17.4, [Heckbert], [Beier]
Mon Nov 5 Tue Nov 6 Wed Nov 7 Thu Nov 8 Fri Nov 9	Viewing I: the wonders of perspective Viewing II: mathematics of perspective	Midterm exam 7-9pm Terman Aud. proj3 assigned proj3 help session OpenGL help session	FvD 6 (skip 6.2,.3,.5.1-.5.3) GL 1, 2 GL 3 GL Appendix D
Tue Nov 13 Thu Nov 15	Visibility I: Z-buffer, graphics hardware Visibility II: scanline, area, list priority	proj3 proposal due	FvD 15.1-15.5 FvD 15.6-15.7
Mon Nov 19 Tue Nov 20 Thu Nov 22	(finished Visibility II) Thanksgiving - no class	proj3 first crits	FvD 15.10-15.11, MH 11
Tue Nov 27 Thu Nov 29	Visibility III: ray tracing Lighting I: illumination, diffuse reflection		GL 7, MH 7, 8 FvD 16.1-16.3, GL 5, 9
Tue Dec 4 Wed Dec 5 Thu Dec 6 Fri Dec 7	Lighting II: generalized lighting models Volume rendering, image-based rendering (or PPT)	proj3 final demos, game competition proj3 writeup due, final exam review
Thu Dec 13		Final exam 3:30 - 6:30pm TCseq 200 (note change!)

Readings: (*) starred entries will be handed out in class. For papers, if its title is displayed in your browser as a link, click on it to download the paper.

[BeierNeely] Beier, T., Neely, S., Feature-Based Image Metamorphosis ,
Computer Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 26:2, pp. 35-42, 1992. (*)

[Blinn16] Blinn, J., Chapter 16: Compositing - Theory,
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Sep 1994. (*)
reprinted Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty Pixels. (*)

[Blinn17] Blinn, J., Chapter 17: Compositing - Practice,
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Nov 1994. (*)
reprinted Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty Pixels. (*)

[FvD] Foley, van Dam, Feiner, and Hughes,
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice,
second edition in C, Addison-Wesley.
Click here for errata

[Haeberli] Haeberli, P., Paint by numbers,
Computer Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 24:4, pp. 207-208, 1990. (*)

[Haeberli-Akeley] Haeberli, P., Akeley, K.,
The Accumulation Buffer: Hardware Support for High-Quality Rendering,
Computer Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 24:4, pp. 309-318, 1990.

[Heckbert] Heckbert, P., A Survey of Texture Mapping, (PDF of text, PDF of figures)
IEEE Computer Graphics, 6:11, pp. 56-67, 1986. (*)

[MH] Möller and Haines,
Real-Time Rendering,
A K Peters, 1999.

[GL] Woo, Neider, and Davis,
OpenGL Programming Guide
third edition, Addison-Wesley.
Click here for errata