| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Assignments |
| Tuesday, 1/13 |
Introduction |
Shirley (2) |
|
| Thursday, 1/15 |
Human Vision, Color and Basic Image Processing |
Shirley (20,21) Watt (15) |
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| Tuesday, 1/20 |
Image Filtering, Warping, and Sampling |
Shirley (4) Watt (14.1-14.4,14.9) |
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| Thursday, 1/22 |
Image Compositing, Image Morphing |
Shirley (3.1-3.4) Beier-Neely Morphing Paper,
Porter and Duff compositing |
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| Tuesday, 1/27 |
Image Processing Wrap-Up / 3D Rendering |
|
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| Thursday, 1/29 |
3D Rendering |
Shirley (2,3.5-3.8,7) Watt (1.4,12.1-12.4) |
|
| Tuesday, 2/3 |
Lossy Optimization for Faster Rendering and Image Pipelines |
Guest speaker Jason Lawrence |
|
| Thursday, 2/5 |
Class cancelled |
|
Assignment 1 due |
| Tuesday, 2/10 |
Ray Casting |
Shirley (10.1-10.4) Watt (12.5-12.6) |
|
| Thursday, 2/12 |
Accelerating Intersections |
Shirley (10.9) Watt (12.5) |
|
| Tuesday, 2/17 |
Direct Illumination |
Shirley (9.1-9.2) Watt (7.1-7.4) |
|
| Thursday, 2/19 |
Global Illumination |
Shirley (10.5-10.7) |
|
| Tuesday, 2/24 |
Modeling Transformations |
Shirley (5-6) Watt (1.1) |
|
| Thursday, 2/26 |
Scene Graphs |
|
|
| Tuesday, 3/3 |
First Midterm |
|
First Midterm |
| Thursday, 3/5 |
Barycentric Coordinates (and some Texture Mapping) |
Shirley (2.10-2.11) |
|
| Tuesday, 3/17 |
Polygon Rendering Pipeline |
Shirley (12) Watt(5) |
|
| Thursday, 3/19 |
Clipping and Scan Conversion |
Shirley (12.1-12.3,3.5-3.8) Watt (6.1) |
Assignment 2 due |
| Tuesday, 3/24 |
Shading and Visibility |
Shirley (8) Watt (6.2-6.7) |
|
| Thursday, 3/26 |
Shading and Visibility (continued) |
Shirley (11) Watt (8) |
|
| Tuesday, 3/31 |
Texture Mapping |
|
|
| Thursday, 4/2 |
Polygon-Based Rendering Wrapup |
|
|
| Tuesday, 4/7 |
3D Object Representation |
Shirley (13.1,13.3) Watt (2) |
|
| Thursday, 4/9 |
Subdivision Surfaces and Winged Edge Data Structures |
Shirley (13.2) |
|
| Tuesday, 4/14 |
Parametric Curves and Splines |
Shirley (2.5-2.6) Watt (3-3.3) 2D Spline Viewer |
|
| Thursday, 4/16 |
Computer Animation I, Computer Animation II, WebGL I |
|
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| Tuesday, 4/21 |
WebGL II |
Shirley (16) |
Assignment 3 due* |
| Thursday, 4/23 |
Course Wrap-Up and Connelly's Research |
|
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| Tuesday, 4/28 |
Second Midterm |
|
Second Midterm |
| Finals week, Monday 5/4 |
Show your final project in Olsson 011 at 7 PM |
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Final project due* |