CS 112: Introduction to Computer Graphics

Instructor: Aditi Majumder (Office: Bren Hall 4056)
Class Timings: MW, 1:30pm - 2:50pm

Office Hours: MW: 3-4pm

Email: majumder @ ics.uci.edu
Phone: 824-8877

Teaching Assistant

Mahdi Abbaspour Tehrani (mabbaspo at uci.edu)

Student Discussion and Questions: 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

• No Text
• 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 : 30%
• Written Assignments: 15%
• Midterms: 20%
• Final: 30%
• Pop Quizes : 5%

Class Material

· Logistics (Jan 4)

· Introduction (Jan 4)

· Object Representation (Jan 6)

· Rendering Pipeline (Jan 6)

· Transformations 1 (Jan 11)

· Transformations 2 (Jan 11, 13, Jan 20)

· Perspective Projection (Jan 20, Jan 25)

· Illumination and Shading (Jan 27)

· Clipping (Feb 1)

· Scan Converting Lines (Feb 8)

· Scan Conversion of Polygon (Feb 10 - Example)

· Sampling (Feb 17)

· Texture Mapping (Feb 17)

· Bump and Environment Mapping (Feb 22)

· Compositing Techniques (Feb 22)

· Display Considerations (Feb 22)

· Collision Detection (Feb 24)

· Hierarchical Object Representation for Animation (Feb 24)

· Raytracing (Feb 24)

· Curves and Surfaces (Feb 29, Mar 7, 9)

Programming Assignments

· Programming Assignment 1 (Due Date: 11 Jan)

· Programming Assignment 2 (Due Date: 1 Feb)

· Programming Assignment 3 (Due Date: 17 Feb)

· Programming Assignment 4 (Due Date: 7 March)

Written Assignments

· Written Assignment 1 (Due Date: 20 Jan) [Key]

· Written Assignment 2 (Due Data: 1 Feb) [Key – the numbers are off, but the answers are given in order]

· Written Assignment 3 (Due Date: 22 Feb) [Key]

· Written Assignment 4 (Due Date: 9 March) [Key]

Pop Quiz

· Week2 Quiz (Key)

· Week 4 Quiz (Key)

· Week 5 Quiz (Key)

· Week 6 Quiz (Key)

· Week 7 Quiz (Key)

· Week 9 Quiz (Key)