CS 33400 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

-general information-

FINAL: Wednesday December 17 8:00a – 10:00a HAAS G066

Administrative affairs

· Instructor: Voicu Popescu, popescu@purdue.edu

- Office hour: by appointment

- Office: LWSN 3179

· Teaching assistant: Chengyuan Lin, lin553@purdue.edu

- Office hours: Thursday 1:30pm-2:30pm, Friday 10:15am-11:15am and by appointment

- Office: LWSN B116F #05

Emergency preparedness

· In the event of a major campus emergency, course requirements, deadlines and grading percentages are subject to changes that may be necessitated by a revised semester calendar or other circumstances. All changes to this course will be posted on this website. During an emergency this website will continue to serve as a means for communication between instructors and students and for disseminating course materials and assignments.

Lectures

Assignments

Code

Prerequisites

Basic programming (data structures, algorithms, file I/O, C / C++)
Some basic mathematics concepts (3D vectors, matrices)

Syllabus

We will spend the semester studying and implementing interactive 3D graphics techniques. The syllabus has three parts.

· Basics

o Vectors, matrices, transformations

o Basic analytical geometry (e.g. points, lines, segments, planes, triangles, intersections)

o Camera models, projection, navigation

· Classic feed-forward rendering

o Rasterization

o Screen space and model space interpolation

o Basic shading

o Texture mapping, projective texture mapping

o Shadow mapping

o Environment mapping

o Antialising

o GPU programming

· Advanced rendering techniques (a subset of the following topics, time permitting)

o Ray tracing

o Geometric modeling

o Image-based rendering

o Automated scene modeling (e.g. stereo, structured light, laser range finding)

o Computational photography

o Camera model design

Required (but Fun) Work

Assignments (pending TA support)

10 total, due approximately every week
Require implementation of a pipeline stage or rendering technique; they are incremental, you cannot complete the later assignments w/o having earlier assignments that work; you are responsible for not falling behind (and for catching up); I will not give out solutions to the earlier assignments since you need to understand the earlier assignments.
credit

5% each assignment
numerous extra-credit opportunities

late policy

once late (up to one week): no penalty
late second and subsequent times: 0 points for assignment
all assignments are required by the last day of classes for completion of course

turn in assignments via Blackboard Vista
assignments need to compile and link and run once downloaded; use relative paths
include Readme.txt or Readme.doc file describing your submission
after you receive the grade for an assignment you have exactly 1 week for asking for a regrade

Exams

Midterm 20%
Final exam 30%

Cheating policy

Do not cheat!
Frequent and thorough scans for cheating
If caught automatic failing grade for the class and reported to the Dean of Students' Office
Examples of cheating (courtesy of Gene Spafford)

Using part or all of someone else's work, from this or any prior semester, in projects or homework without the instructor's prior approval;
Misrepresenting the functionality of code. That is, if a student submits a project with falsified output or test data to make it look as if a program works better than it does;
Using hidden notes or hints to answer questions during a test that does not allow open notes or crib sheets;
Submitting answers on homework or projects that were developed or researched by any other individual and presented as the student's own work;
Copying text from a book or paper to include in the student's own writing without clearly marking it as a quote and citing the source (This is plagiarism and may be a violation of copyright law as well as cheating.);
Setting permissions on files and directories in a student's account so that someone can easily copy programs and documents, or allowing any other person, in the class or otherwise, to use your computer account (note that this is also a violation of department policy or PUCC policy;
Providing program code or problem solutions to another student in the class without the instructor's explicit, prior approval;
Encouraging anyone to do any of the above, or failing to report anyone involved in any of these activities.

Course material

Recommended texts

Peter Shirley, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, ISBN 1568811241
Alan Watt, 3D Computer Graphics, ISBN 0-201-39855-9
Foley, van Dam et al., Computer Graphics Principles and Practice, ISBN 0-201-84840-6