Computer Graphics Programming I

Grading Scale

Late Work

I do not accept late work. If you miss a deadline, you will not earn the points for that activity. There are no make-up opportunities. If you are unable to attend class on the due date for a assignment, please submit it by e-mail before class.

Attendance and Participation

If you are not in class for an in-class exercise, you cannot earn those points. If you miss an entire class, you are responsible for obtaining copies of handouts and other classroom materials from your classmates.

Lab Policies

Leave food and drink outside the class. Disciplinary action will be taken toward any student found using the equipment in an inappropriate manner, taking cell phone calls or surfing the web. Disruptive, disrespectful or rude behavior will not be tolerated.

Plagiarism

Presenting the writings, images or paraphrased ideas of another as ones own, is strictly prohibited at the Art Institute of Portland. Properly documented excerpts from others works, when they are limited to an appropriate amount of the total length of a student's paper, are permissible when used to support a researched argument.

Students with Disabilities

It is AiPD policy not to discriminate against qualified students with a documented disability in its educational programs, activities or services. If you have a disability-related need for adjustments or other accommodations in this class, contact the Disability Services Coordinator.

Amber Perrin
Disabilities Services Coordinator
The Art Institute of Portland
1122 NW Davis Street
Portland, OR 97209-2911
503-382-4836
<aperrin@aii.edu>

Week 1 (October 2^nd, 2007)

Lecture slides.

• Course road-map

• What is OpenGL?

• What is SDL?

• Compile OpenGL ``Hello, world!''

• Drawing in OpenGL

  • Immediate mode

  • Types of primitives

• Hidden surface removal

  • Back-face culling

  • Z-buffering

• Buffers

  • Color buffer

  • Depth buffer

  • Stencil buffer

  • Brief mention of other buffers that we won't use this term

• Homework assignments:

  • Read OpenGL Superbible, chapter 1 and chapter 2. In chapter 2 skim the GLUT details in the section titled ``Using GLUT''. We will not use GLUT in this course. Also in chapter 2, skip the sections titled ``Identifying the Version'' and ``Using Extensions''.

Week 2 (October 9^th, 2007)

Lecture slides.

• Brief introduction to vector math

  • Addition and subtraction

  • Dot product

  • Cross product

  • Matrix multiplication

• Transformations

• Timing for animation

• Homework assignments:

  • Read OpenGL Superbible, chapter 3. Skim the sections ``Line Stippling,'' ``Filling Polygons, or Stippling Revisited.''.

  • Programming assignment #1: moving objects w/stencil. Due (10/16).

Week 3 (October 16^th, 2007)

Lecture slides.

• Projections

• Lighting and materials, part 1

  • Lighting models

    • Ambient

    • Lamber

    • Phong

    • Blinn

  • Lights and lighting in OpenGL

    • Controlling lights

    • Spot lights

    • Light source attenuation

    • Shading models

  • Simple, planar shadows

• Homework assignments:

  • Read OpenGL Superbible, chapter 5.

  • Programming assignment #2: lit, 3D objects. Due (10/23).

Week 4 (October 23^rd, 2007)

Lecture slides.

• Lighting and materials, part 2

  • Color-materials

  • Visualizing spot lights

• Texture mapping, part 1

  • Explicit mapping of textures to geometry

  • Texture filtering

  • Texture wrap modes

  • Texture ``objects''

  • Loading texture data

• Homework assignments:

  • Read OpenGL Superbible, chapter 6.

Week 5 (October 30^th, 2007)

Lecture slides.

• Texture mapping, part 2

  • Texture combiners, part1: texture environment

  • Texture coordinate generation

  • Environment mapping

• Homework assignments:

  • Read OpenGL Superbible, chapter 8.

  • Programming assignment #3: Texture mapped virtual world. Due (11/13).

Week 6 (November 6^th, 2007)

Lecture slides.

• Texture mapping, part 3

  • Specular highlights

  • Point sprites

  • Multitexture

  • Texture combiners, part 2: GL_ARB_texture_env_combine and friends

• Homework assignments:

  • Read OpenGL Superbible, chapter 9.

Week 7 (November 13^th, 2007)

Lecture slides.

• Tangent space

  • Calculating tangents

  • Tangent-space lighting

  • Performing tangent-space lighting with texture combiners.

  • Bump mapping

• Homework assignments:

  • Programming assignment #4: Phong shading with texture combiners. Due (11/27).

Week 8 (November 20^th, 2007)

Lecture slides.

• Framebuffer operations

  • Blending

  • Alpha test

  • Fog

• Multipass rendering

• Homework assignments:

  • Read OpenGL Superbible, chapter 6. Skip the section ``Accumulation Buffer.''

  • Term project assigned. Due (12/11).

Week 9 (November 27^th, 2007)

Lecture slides.

• Vertex arrays

• Vertex buffer objects

• Homework assignments:

  • Read OpenGL Superbible, chapter 11.

Week 10 (December 4^th, 2007)

• Work on final project

• Homework assignments:

  • Prepare for final exam

  • Finish final project

Week 11 (December 11^th, 2007)

• Final exam. 5:30PM - 7:30PM. Do not be late today!