Computer Graphics Programming I

Grading Scale

Late Work

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ADA Statement

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A quarter credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than:

1. One hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work each week for 10-12 weeks, or the equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time; or

2. At least an equivalent amount of work as required in paragraph (1) of this definition for other academic activities as established by the institution including laboratory work, internships, practica, studio work, and other academic work leading to the award of credit hours.

Week 1 ( October 5^th, 2011 )

Lecture notes

Lecture topics:

• Course road-map

• Graphics pipeline

• OpenGL ``Hello, world!''

  • Setting up the graphics pipeline

  • Feeding the hardware data

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  • Real-Time Rendering, 3rd edition, chapter 2 and chapter 3. You may skim section 3.3 (The Evolution of Programmable Shading) and 3.5 (The Geometry Shader).

  • Real-Time Rendering, 2rd edition, chapter 2. The second edition does not have the material from chapter 3 of the 3rd edition.

• Programming assignment #1: 2D ellipse

  • Part 0: Due 10/12.

  • Part 1: Due 10/12. We'll work on this in class. The due date will therefore be somewhat negotiable.

  • Part 2: Due 10/19.

• Common libraries

• GLU3 library - Most recent version was available in class. An update will be available next week.

Week 2 ( October 12^th, 2011 )

Lecture notes

Lecture topics:

• Getting data to the GPU

  • Buffer objects

  • Vertex attributes

  • Uniforms

• Lots of math:

  • Linear algebra refresher

  • Rotation and translation

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  • Real-Time Rendering, 3rd edition, chapter 4. Skip sections 4.3 (Quaternions) and 4.5 (Morphing).

  • Real-Time Rendering, 2rd edition, chapter 3. Skip section 3.3 (Quaternions).

Week 3 ( October 19^th, 2011 )

Lecture notes

Quiz #1. DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• Lots of math:

  • Modeling transformations

  • Viewing transformations

  • Projections

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  • Real-Time Rendering, 3rd edition, chapter 14 up to section 14.3. In addition, skip sections 14.1.4 (Cache-Oblivious and Cache-Aware Representations) and 14.1.5 (Scene Graphs).

  • Real-Time Rendering, 2rd edition, chapter 9 up to section 9.4. In addition, skip section 9.1.4 (Scene Graphs).

• Programming assignment #2: lit cubes

  • Part 1: Due 10/26

  • Part 2: Due 11/2

  • Part 3: Due 11/9

  • Part 4: Due 11/16

Week 4 ( October 26^th, 2011 )

Lecture notes

Lecture topics:

• Hidden surface removal / occlusion

  • backface culling

  • painter's algorithm

  • z-buffer

  • occlusion queries

  • frustum culling

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  • Real-Time Rendering, 3rd edition, chapter 5 up to section 5.6.

  • Real-Time Rendering, 2rd edition, chapter 4 up to section 4.4.

Week 5 ( November 2^th, 2011 )

Lecture notes

Quiz #2. DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• The physics of light and energy transport

• Computer lighting models

  • Lambert

  • Phong

  • Blinn

• Shading

  • flat

  • Goraud

  • Phong

• Types of lights

  • infinite / directional

  • point

  • area

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  • Real-Time Rendering, 3rd edition, chapter 14 section 14.3 up to section 14.7.

  • Real-Time Rendering, 2rd edition, chapter 9 section 9.4 up to section 9.8. Skip sections 9.7.1 (Occlusion Horizons), 9.7.2 (Occluer Shrinking and Frustum Growing), and 9.7.6 (The HOM Algorithm).

Week 6 ( November 9^th, 2011 )

Lecture notes

Lecture topics:

• Bounding volumes

  • Bounding spheres

  • Axis-aligned bounding boxes (AABBs)

  • Oriented bounding boxes (OBBs)

  • Heirarchies of BVs

• More occlusion

  • heirarchical frustum culling

  • portal culling

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  • Real-Time Rendering, 3rd edition TBD.

  • Real-Time Rendering, 2rd edition TBD.

Week 7 ( November 16^th, 2011 )

Lecture notes

Quiz #3. DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• Texture mapping, part 1

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  • Real-Time Rendering, 3rd edition TBD.

  • Real-Time Rendering, 2rd edition TBD.

• Programming assignment #3: textured world

  • Part 1: Due 11/23

  • Part 2: Due 11/30

  • Part 3: Due 12/7

Week 8 ( November 23^th, 2011 )

Lecture notes

Lecture topics:

• Texture mapping, part 2

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  • Real-Time Rendering, 3rd edition TBD.

  • Real-Time Rendering, 2rd edition TBD.

Week 9 ( November 30^th, 2011 )

Lecture notes

Quiz #4. DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!

Lecture topics:

• Texture mapping, part 3

Homework assignments:

• Read:

  • Real-Time Rendering, 3rd edition TBD.

  • Real-Time Rendering, 2rd edition TBD.

Week 10 ( December 7^th, 2011 )

Lecture notes

Lecture topics:

• Framebuffer blending

• Multipass rendering

• Stencil buffer

Week 11 ( December 14^th, 2011 )

FINAL EXAM - 5:30PM to 7:30PM. DO NOT BE LATE TODAY!