CS 112: Introduction to Computer Graphics

Instructor: Aditi Majumder (Office: Bren Hall 4056)
Class Timings: MW, 11:00am - 12:20am
Room: PCB1300
Email: majumder @ ics.uci.edu
Phone: 824-8877
Office Hrs: MW: 2-3pm

Teaching Assistant

Arjun Satish(arjun.satish @ gmail.com)

Grader

Mandatory Discussion Session

Session 1: F, 3:00pm - 3:50pm
Room: ICS 249
Session 2: Th, 7:00pm - 7:50pm
Room: ICS 249

Laboratory

Session 1: MF, 12:30pm - 1:50pm (Capacity: 40)
Session 2: TuTh, 11:00am - 12:20pm (Capacity: 40)
Room: CS 364

Student Discussion and Questions: Link to the Noteboard

Tentative Outline of the Syallabus

• The Rendering Pipeline (2)
• Transformations (4)
• Lighting and Shading (3)
• Rasterization (2)
• Clipping, Occlusion and Display (4)
• Texture Mapping, Bump Mapping and Environment Mapping (4)
• Shadows and Multi-rendering (1)
• Animation (1)
• Curves and Surfaces (1)
• Other effects (2)

Books

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• References
• Computer Graphics with OpenGL, Prentice Hall, Hearn and Baker
• Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, A. K. Peters, Peter Shirley et al.
• Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top Down Approach Using OpenGL, Addison Wesley, Edward Angel
• Introduction to Computer Graphics, Addison Wesley, J. D. Foley, A. van Dam, S. K. Feiner and J. F. Hughes.
• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Addison Wesley, J. D. Foley, A. van Dam, S. K. Feiner and J. F. Hughes
• 3D Computer Graphics, Addison Wesley, A. Watt

Handouts

• Course Schedule
• Handout of Rules

Grading Policy

• Programming Assignments : 25%
• Written Assignments: 15%
• Midterms: 15%
• Final: 25%
• Final Project: 20%

Class Material

· Logistics (29 Sep)

· Introduction (29 Sep)

· Object Representation (1 Oct)

· Rendering Pipeline (1 Oct)

· Transformations 1 (1 Oct)

· Transformations 2 (6, 8 Oct)

· Perspective Projection (13 Oct)

· Color (Oct 15)

· Illumination (Oct 20)

· Clipping (Oct 22)

· Scan Line Conversion (Oct 27)

· Polygon Scan Conversion (Nov 5) - Example

· Sampling and Aliasing (Nov 10)

· Texture Mapping (Nov 12)

· Bump and Environment Mapping, Spatial Subdivision (Nov 17)

· Compositing Techniques, Collision Detection, Animations (Dec 1)

Programming Assignments

· Programming Assignment 1 (Due: Oct 6)

· Programming Assignment 2 (Due: Oct 27)

· Programming Assignment 3 (Due: Nov 5)

· Programming Assignment 4 (Due: Nov 17)

Written Assignments

· Written Assignment 1 (Due: Oct 13)

· Written Assignment 2 (Due: Oct 22)

· Written Assignment 3 (Due: Oct 29)

· Written Assignment 4 (Due: Nov 26)

Practice Questions

Final Project

Here are some project ideas. I will explain these in class next week. Following that if you need further elaborate explanation and pointers to material you have to read to do them, or if you have ideas of your own, you can request appointment with me via email. If you and your partner are decided on any of the below, please send me an email asking for an appointment to discuss the project. In case of clashes, whoever sends me the email first gets to do that project. If you do not have a partner yet, you can let me know and I will try my best to pair you up with somebody.

• Texture Mapping – Boris and James
• Mipmapping - Michael Palacios
• Silhuoette Rendering (Non Photorealistic Rendering) (Example Images ) - Richard Billet
• Charcoal Rendering (Non Photorealistic Rendering) (Example Images )
• Mirror Reflections with Scene Duplication
• Shadows – Jonathan Chuang and Brian Ly
• Bump Mapping – Tristin Farmer and Ethan Nguyen
• Ray Tracing - Yioxiang Zhou and Ted Kim
• Antialiasing using Accumulation Buffer
• Transparency and translucency - Ilya Sukharnikov
• Collision detection using bounding boxes – Johnny and Tony Huynh
• Environment Mapping
• Projected Texture
• Cel Shading – Brian Prinjinsky and Brian Bui
• Model Carving Using Octrees - Jonathan Chuong and Brian Kane
• Hierarchical Transformations for Animations – Elbert and Suraj
• 3D Stereo Rendering – Roula Lagditis and Phong
• Object Morphing – Jason Newton
• 3D Mesh Simplification
• View Frustum Culling