CS5310 Computer Graphics Schedule Fall 2011

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College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

Professor Fell

Last Modified
Week Date CS5310 Topics Reading
Shirley, other
Reading
Watt
Due
      
1 12-Sep Graphics Overview
Course Overview
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Color; ppm formats
Math Basics, Triangles
Chapter 1
Course homepage, syllabus, schedule
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Section 3.3, Wikipedia RGB
Unix: man ppm
Chapter 2
 
 
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Pages 418-424
Section 1.3
 
      
2 19-Sep Ray Tracing
Ray-Sphere Intersection
Light: Diffuse Reflection
Phong Shading
Shadows
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Matrices
Transformations
Chapter 4




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Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Section 12.1
Sections 1.4.1, 1.4.2
Section 6.2

Sections 9.1, 9.2
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Section 1.1
Assignment 0
due
Tuesday, September 20
by midnight
      
3 26-Sep  
Viewing in 2D and 3D
 
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Recursive Ray-Tracing
Specular Reflection
Refraction
 
Chapter 7
 
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Section 10.1
Section 10.2
Section 10.3
Sections 5.1, 5.2
Section 1.3.5
Section 1.4.6
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Sections 12.2, 12.3
 
 
 
      
4 3-Oct Rasterizing Lines, Antialiasing
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Ray-Plane, Ray-Triangle,
Ray-Box, Ray-Polygon
Ray-Quadric
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Getting started with OpenGL
Sections 8.1-8.3
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Section 4.4

Westall on Quadrics
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OpenGL Programming Guide 1, 2
 
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Section 1.4
 
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Assignment 1 due
Tuesday, October 4
by midnight
      
  10-Oct Columbus Day
      
5 17-Oct ScanLine PolyFill
Triangle Meshes
Visible Surface Determination
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Texture and Bump Maps
Sections 12.0 - 12.3


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Sections 11.1 - 11.4
Section 2.1
 
 
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Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.4
Assignment 2 due
Tuesday, October 18
by midnight
      
6 24-Oct Bezier Curves and Splines
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Parametric Bicubic Surfaces
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OpenGL Viewing
Chapter 15
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OpenGL Programming Guide 3
Sections, 3.2 3.1
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Sections 3.4, 3.5
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Section 1.4
      
7 31-Oct noise, turbulence
clouds, marble

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OpenGL ES - iPhone Development
Noise Samples
Noise Code
Section 11.1
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OpenGL ES from the ground up
Sections 8.7.1, 8.7.2


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Assignment 3 due
Tuesday, November 1
by midnight
      
8 7-Nov Color Perception
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Animation
Chapter 21
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Sections 17.1, 17.2
Chapter 15
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9 14-Nov Assorted Topics, e.g.:
Fractals
Morphing
Radiosity




 

Assignment 4 due
Tuesday, November 15
by midnight
      
10 21-Nov More Assorted Topics
   
 

Final presentation proposal due
Tuesday, November 22
by midnight
      
11 28-Nov EXAM - 3 Hours    
Assignment 5 due
Tuesday, November 29
by midnight
      
12 5-Dec Student Presentations    
 
      
13 12-Dec Snow Day Makeup    
 
      
      

Harriet Fell
College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue #202WVH
Boston, MA 02115

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