CS 49000 ACG

Advanced Computer Graphics & Applications

-general information-

Administrative affairs

· Instructor: Voicu Popescu, popescu@purdue.edu

- Office hour: by appointment, LWSN 3179

· Teaching assistant: TBA

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

Prerequisites

CS 33400 or instructor permission (which will be given when student demonstrates necessary computer science and computer graphics background)

Syllabus

The course will cover advanced computer graphics and application techniques:

· rendering (e.g. soft shadows, glossy reflections, ambient occlusion, relief texture mapping, multiperspective rendering, 3-D rendering, hair and fur, ray tracing)

· geometric modeling (e.g. Bézier, NURBS, and subdivision surfaces, laser rangefinding, depth from stereo, depth from structured light)

· animation (e.g. skeletal and bone model, forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, collision detection, motion capture)

· physics (e.g. fractures, explosions, cloth, fire, smoke, water)

· image and video processing, augmented reality (e.g. convolution, edge extraction, matting, camera calibration, camera tracking)

Assignments will consist of projects where students actually implement some of these techniques using graphics processing units (GPUs), smartphone platforms (e.g. iPhone, Android), animation software platforms (e.g. 3ds Max), still and video cameras, motion capture systems, trackers, and laser rangefinders.

Required (but Fun) Work

Assignments

5 total, approximately due every 2 weeks
Significant implementation component (C++, OpenGL, C, objective C, Android, iPhone SDK, 3ds Max SDK, etc.)
Credit

14% each assignment (total 70%)
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

After you receive the grade for an assignment you have exactly 1 week for asking for a regrade

Exams

Midterm 30%
No final exam

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.

Voicu Popescu, fall 2010