Announcements

• May 22: Links to final projects posted.
• Feb 27: Reminder: midterm is next Tuesday. We have posted some old exams under Week 5, below. Good luck!
  
• Feb 4: Welcome to COS426!

General Information

• Professor

  • Adam Finkelstein (office hours: Wednesday, 4 PM), CS422, af @cs.princeton.edu

• Teaching Assistant

  • Renato Werneck (office hours: Friday, 4 PM), CS214, rwerneck@princeton.edu

• Times and Places

  • Lectures: TTh 1:30-2:50, room FC005 (Friend Center).

• Prerequisites

  • Data structures and algorithms (CS226).
  • A good working knowledge of C programming (CS217).
  • Linear algebra (as described in Appendix A of the required textbook).
  • No prior knowledge of graphics assumed.

• Keeping in touch

  • Send mail to the CS426 staff
  • Check out the pu.cs.426 newsgroup

Textbooks

• Required Textbook

  • Computer Graphics, C Version,
    Donald Hearn and M. Pauline Baker,
    2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1997, ISBN: 0135309247.

• Recommended Textbooks

  • OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL,
    Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, and Mason Woo,
    3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN: 0201461382.

  • Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice,
    James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, and John F. Hughes,
    2nd Edition in C, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN: 0201848406.

  • Fundamentals of Computer Graphics,
    Peter Shirley,
    1st Edition, A. K. Peters, 2002, ISBN: 1568811241.

Coursework

• Exams (30%)
  • exam 1 (Tuesday, March 4)
  • exam 2 (Tuesday, April 29)
  • Exams are closed book. Bring a one-page "cheat sheet" with handwritten notes on both sides.
  • Exams will be similar in style to past midterms (ps,pdf)

• Programming Assignments (50%)
  • Assignment #1: Image Processing (due on February 24)
  • Assignment #2: Ray Tracing (due on March 24)
  • Assignment #3: Interactive Modeling (due on April 7)
  • Assignment #4: Keyframe Animation (due on April 21)

• Final Project (15%)
  • Preliminary Project Proposal (April 22)
  • Final project proposal (May 1)
  • Final writeup (TBD)
  • Demo day (TBD)
  • Results can be found here.

• Class Participation (5%)
  • Contribute ideas in class

Lectures

Week 1

• Tues 4 Feb: Introduction, Raster Displays
  • Lecture notes: 00 - Introduction / 01 - Raster Graphics
  • Readings: H&B 1, appendix A

• Thur 6 Feb: Sampling, Quantization, Image Processing
  • Lecture notes: 02 - Image Processing
  • Readings: H&B 2.1-2.2, 4.3, 15.1-15.4 14.4

Week 2

• Tues 11 Feb: Warping, Compositing, Morphing
  • Lecture notes: 03 - Image Warping, Compositing and Morphing
  • Readings: H&B 3.1-3.4, 3.11, 6
  • Readings: [Smith95b]"A Pixel is Not a Little Square ...," pdf
  • Readings: [Porter84] "Compositing Digital Images"
  • Readings: [Smith95a] "Image Compositing Fundamentals," pdf
  • Readings: [Beier92] "Feature-based Image Metamorphosis," pdf

• Thur 13 Feb: 3D Rendering
  • Lecture notes: 04 - 3D Rendering
  • 3D camera applet
  • Readings: H&B 9, 10.1

Week 3

• Tues 18 Feb: Ray Casting
  • Lecture notes: 05 - Ray Casting
  • Readings: H&B 14.6 7.3-7.4

• Thur 20 Feb: Illumination
  • Lecture notes: 06 - Illumination
  • Readings: H&B 14.1-14.2

Week 4

• Tues 25 Feb: Modeling Transformations
  • Lecture notes: 07 - Modeling Transformations
  • Readings: H&B 5.1-5.6, 7.4, 11.1-11.5, 11.7 12.1-12.6

• Thur 27 Feb: 3D Rendering Pipeline
  • Lecture notes: 08 - 3D Polygon Rendering Pipeline

Week 5

• Tues 4 Mar: Midterm 1
  • This midterm will be similar to past midterms (exam1 and exam2).
  • You are only expected to know questions 1-4 and 7 of the first exam (and everything else we have seen so far). Most of the other questions haven't been covered yet.

• Thur 6 Mar: Clipping
  • Lecture notes: 09 - Clipping
  • Readings: H&B 6, 3.1-3.4, 3.11, 14.2, 14.5

Week 6

• Tues 11 Mar: Scan Converstion and Shading
  • Lecture notes: 10 - Scan Conversion and Shading
  • Readings: H&B 6, 3.1-3.4, 3.11, 14.2, 14.5

• Thur 13 Mar: Texture Mapping Hidden Surface Removal (Visibility)
  • Lecture notes: 11 - Texture Mapping
  • Lecture notes: 12 - Hidden Surface Removal (or, visibility)
  • Readings: H&B 13, 14.9

Week 7

• Tues 18 Mar: No Class (Spring Break)

• Thur 20 Mar: No Class (Spring Break)

Week 8

• Tues 25 Mar: Subdivision Surfaces
  • Lecture notes: 14 - Subdivision Surfaces
  • Readings: [Zoran 00] "Course Notes: Subdivision for Modeling and Animation, "Chapter 1, pdf

• Thur 27 Mar: Curves and Surfaces
  • Lecture notes: 15 - Parametric Curves and Surfaces
  • Readings: H&B 10.9, 10.12-10.13
  • Readings: 10.2-10.9, 10.12-10.13
  • Exercises: html

Week 9

• Tues 1 Apr: Solid Models and Procedural Models
  • Lecture notes: 16 - Procedural Modeling
  • Lecture notes: 17 - Solid Modeling
  • Readings: H&B 10.15-10.17, 10.22, 10.18-10.19

• Thur 3 Apr: Animation
  • Lecture notes: 18 - Computer Animation
  • Readings: H&B 10.20-10.21, 16.6, 16.1-16.2, 16.4-16.5

Week 10

• Tues 8 Apr: Non-photorealistic Rendering (Lee Markosian)
  • Lecture notes: 19 - Non-photorealistic Rendering

• Thur 10 Apr: Image-based Rendering (Tom Funkhouser)
  • Lecture notes: 20 - Image-based Rendering

Week 11

• Tues 15 Apr: 3D Scanning (Szymon Rusinkiewicz)
  • Lecture notes: 21 - 3D Scanning

• Thur 17 Apr: Cel Animation
  • Lecture notes: 22 - Cel Animation

Week 12

• Tues 22 Apr: Project Proposals

• Thur 24 Apr: Review

Week 13

• Tues 29 Apr: Second Midterm

• Thur 1 May: Final Project Proposals

Final Weeks

• Thu 22 May: Final Project Presentations
  • Frank Battaglia
  • Amit Chatwani, Chris Gill, and Mihai Parparita
  • Shirley Gaw
  • John Hrvatin
  • Wilkie Kiefer
  • Greg Prisament
  • Corey Sanders
  • Adrian Soviani and Daniel Spector
  • Douglas Thunen

Links

• Graphics Software Documentation
  • OpenGL Information
  • GLUT Information
  • VRML Information
  • VRML Specification

• Graphics Instructional Notes and Applets
  • Brown's exploratories project
  • Image processing learning resources

• Graphics Information Repositories
  • Steve Hollasch's links
  • Peter Shirley's list of graphics sites
  • Paul Heckbert's links
  • Fredo Durand's links
  • Dortmund's links
  • Technomagi's links
  • Magic Software's links
  • Karim Ratib's links
  • Yahoo - Computer Graphics
  • 3dsite

• Graphics Research Labs
  • Princeton's Computer Graphics & Geometry Group
  • Other graphics research labs

• Graphics Bibliographies
  • Siggraph Bibliography
  • www.graphicspapers.com
  • Bibliographies on Computer Graphics and Vision
  • Ray Tracing Bibliography
  • Eurographics digital library
  • ACM Conference Proceedings on Computer Graphics

• Graphics Courses at Other Universities
  • Stanford University (CS248, CS348A, CS348B)
  • University of California at Berkeley (CS184, CS284, CS285)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (6.837)
  • University of Washington (CS557, CS558)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (COMP205, COMP235,COMP236)
  • California Institute of Technology (CS/CNS174,CS/CNS257, CS/CNS274, CS/CNS284)
  • Cornell University (CS417)
  • Carnegie Mellon University ( 15-463)
  • Brown University (CS123)
  • University of Waterloo (CS488/688)
  • University of Wisconsin (CS-638)

References

• [Beier92]  T. Beier and S. Neely,
  "Feature-based Image Metamorphosis,"
  Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 92), 26, 2, 1992, 35-42.
• [Hanrahan95], Pat Hanrahan,
  "Basic Signal Processing,"
  Chapter 9, Course Notes for CS426, 1995.
• [Heckbert86]  Paul Heckbert,
  "Survey of Texture Mapping,"
  IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 6, 11, November, 1986, 56-67.
• [Smith95a]  Alvy Ray Smith,
  "Image Compositing Fundamentals,"
  Technical Memo 4, Microsoft Research, Aug 15, 1995.
• [Smith95b]  Alvy Ray Smith,
  "A Pixel Is Not A Little Square ..."
  Technical Memo 6, Microsoft Research, July 17, 1995.
• [Smith95c]  Alvy Ray Smith,
  "Alpha and the History of Digital Compositing,"
  Technical Memo 7, Microsoft Research, August 157, 1995.
• [Smith95d]  Alvy Ray Smith,
  "Gamma Correction,"
  Technical Memo 7, Microsoft Research, Sept 1, 1995.