COS 426:
Computer Graphics
Spring 2015
COS 426:
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General | Syllabus | Coursework
| Week | Lectures (click for notes) | Readings | |
| 1 | Tue 2/3 | Introduction & Color | Ch. 1, 2, 19 |
| Wed 2/4 | Precept 1 - javascript | ||
| Thu 2/5 | Digital image processing | [Smith95b], Sections 1-2 of [Paris09] | |
| 2 | Tue 2/10 | Sampling, resampling, and warping | Ch. 6.15, [Hanrahan95] |
| Wed 2/11 | Precept 2 - Assignment 1 | ||
| Thu 2/12 | Compositing and morphing | Ch. 5.3, [Beier92] | |
| 3 | Tue 2/17 | 3D Modeling | Ch. 13 |
| Wed 2/18 | Precept 3 | ||
| Thu 2/19 | Parametric curves and surfaces | Ch. 14 | |
| Sun 2/22 | Assignment 1 due | ||
| 4 | Tue 2/24 | Polygonal Meshes | Sections 1-3 of [Botsch07] |
| Wed 2/25 | Precept 4 - halfedge structure | ||
| Thu 2/26 | Subdivision surfaces | Sections 1, 2.1, 4, 5 of [Zorin00] | |
| 5 | Tue 3/3 | Implicit surfaces and solid models | Ch. 15 |
| Wed 3/4 | Precept 5 - mesh processing | ||
| Thu 3/5 | Scene graphs and transformations | Ch. A.1, A.2, A.5, 7, 9, 11 | |
| 6 | Tue 3/10 | Rendering overview | |
| Wed 3/11 | Precept 6 | ||
| Thu 3/12 | Ray casting. Assignment 2 due | Ch. 16, 21.1 | |
| Spring break! | |||
| 7 | Tue 3/24 | Lighting and reflectance | Ch. 17-18 |
| Wed 3/25 | Precept 7: review for exam | ||
| Thu 3/26 | Exam 1 | ||
| 8 | Tue 3/31 | Polygon rendering pipeline | Ch. 6 |
| Wed 4/1 | Precept 8 - GLSL | Ch. 22 | |
| Thu 4/2 | Rasterization | Ch. C.3 | |
| 9 | Tue 4/7 | Global illumination | Ch. 21 |
| Wed 4/8 | Precept 9 - Raytracer | ||
| Thu 4/9 | Image-based rendering | ||
| 10 | Tue 4/14 | Non-photorealistic rendering | [Sayeed06] |
| Wed 4/15 | Rasterizer shaders | ||
| Thu 4/16 | Passive dynamics & particle systems | [Reeves83] [Witkin01a] [Witkin01b] | |
| 11 | Tue 4/21 | Character animation | Ch. 13 |
| Wed 4/22 | Precept 11 -- Particles and Assignment 3 Due | ||
| Thu 4/23 | Active dynamics | [Tu94] | |
| 12 | Tue 4/28 | Scene complexity | |
| Wed 4/29 | Precept 12 and Assignment 4 Due | ||
| Thu 4/30 | Games (guest Andy Nealen) | ||
| Tue 5/5 | No class this week - reading week! | ||
| Tue 5/12 | Final project writeup due | ||
| Wed 5/13 | Final Project demos (tentative date, 1-4PM) | ||