Staff

 

 

             Instructor

                                  Chuck Hansen (hansen (delete me) @cs.utah.edu)

             TA

                                  No TA   

 

Office Hours

T,Th: 10:30-11:30
I am always able to schedule appointments if you simply email me.

TA Hours

TBA

Class Times

T Th 9:10am-10:30am

L114 WEB

Mailing List

cs5600@list.eng.utah.edu : You should subscribe to this class mailing list.

To subscribe, go to the cs5600 mailing list website.

I expect all questions about the lectures, assignments, or the class in general to be sent to the class email list.
The reason is that others may very well have the same question and it saves myself and the TA from repeatedly answering the same question.
Don't be bashful about posting to the class email list ... everyone is learning!

College of Engineering Guidelines

College of Engineering Guidelines (pdf field)
The guidelines are simple: add by the add-date, drop by the drop-date, you have an official appeal process if needed (hopefully never), we will accomodate disabilities (ADA).

Text

The OpenGL Red Book: OpenGL Programming Guide 3.x (the one the bookstore has)

The Library has a copy on-line. You'll need to be on campus (campus IP address) or use VPN to have access to the book. OpenGL Redbook Online linked from the Marriott Library

 

Grading

Your grade will be 70% homework, 5% class participation, and 25% exams.

Cheating will not be tolerated. If you are caught cheating, you will fail the class. You should work alone and you may not copy code from any web-page or other resource than the book and the book’s web-page. DON'T share code: it is considered cheating! DON'T grab code off the web: it is considered cheating! (we check; you will fail the class!) DON’T use code from other students or other books: it is considered cheating!

Late penalty: -20%/day.  But you have 4 free late-days. That is, you can use these to avoid a late penalty since stuff-happens. Yes, this is stiff but you should turn in what you have for partial credit rather than try to complete an assignment a week late.

NO Incompletes, except for very serious medical reasons. Turn in semi-working stuff for partial credit.

Course Philosophy and Objectives

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of computer graphics. We will explore raster algorithms in 2D and 3D, coordinate transformations, projections, lighting/shading, and ray-tracing. We will use OpenGL in this course so when you complete the course, you should understand how to use basic OpenGL and also write a simple ray-tracer.

The course will start with how to take mathematical equations into algorithms.  We will then study the fundamentals of computer graphics such as rasterization, transformations, hidden-surface removal, lighting, texture mapping and ray-tracing. 

The objection is a fundamental understanding of computer graphics methods as well as practical OpenGL programming abilities.

Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Resources	Lecture Notes
1	T Jan 8	Vectors, parametric/implicit,RGB colors	Chapt 4 (redbook)	Cross Product, Line Equations, Color
	Th Jan  10	Lines, circles, barycentric coords, rasterization	(Basic Implementation Strategies to Bresenham's Algorithm)	Bresenham's line rasterization
2	T Jan 15	Lines, circles, barycentric coords, rasterization	(Basic Implementation Strategies to Bresenham's Algorithm)	Bresenham's circle rasterization
	Th Jan 17	Overview of OpenGL Fixed-function vs    shader-based pipeline	Understand fixed function pipeline and programs	GLSL Intro
3	T Jan 22	Rasterization	How to rasterize a polygon	Polygon Scan Conversion
	Th Jan 24	rasterization, barycentric coords,		Transformations I
4	T Jan 29	Transformations	Chapt 3 (redbook)	Transformations II
	Th Jan 31	3D Transformations and matrix stacks		Hierarchical Transformations
5	T Feb 5	Viewing and projections	Msys and Mview reference	Intro to Projection
	Th Feb 7	Viewing and projections		OpenGL projection    Second Projection Slides
6	T Feb 12	Z-buffer		Visible Surface Methods
	Th Feb 14	Lighting	Chapt 5 (redbook)	Lighting Notes
7	T Feb 19	Lighting continued and Exam review
	Th Feb 21	OpenGL Overview Shaders	Chapt 1, Chapt 2 (redbook) Chapt 15 (OpenGL Shading Languuage)	GLSL Overview
8	T Feb 26	Exam
	Th Feb 28	continue GLSL		GLSL Specificatiaon (PDF) Deferred Shading
9	T Mar 5	Texture Mapping	Chapt 9 (redbook)	Texture Mapping
	Th Mar 7	Texture Mapping, Blending	Chapt 6	Texture Mapping with OpenGL
10	T Mar 12	Spring Break
	Th Mar 14	Spring Break
11	T Mar 19	Texture Shaders		Glsl example
	Th Mar 21	Ray Tracing	Ray-tracing suppliment	Ray Tracing
12	T Mar 26	Ray Tracing
	Th Mar 28	Exam Review		Ray Tracing 2rd Lecture
13	T Apr 2	Exam 2		Transforms, lighting, hidden surface
	Th Apr 4	Ray Tracing acceleration		Ray Tracing 3rd Lecture
14	T Apr 9	Ray Tracing at Pixar		Ray Tracing for the Movie Cars
	Th Apr 11	Alpha Blending		Alpha Channel and Blending Lecture
15	T Apr 16	Brian Summa Panorama Weaving		Siggraph Paper (PDF)
	Th Apr 18	Exam Review
16	T Apr 23	Exam 3 Last Day of Class		texture mapping/ray-tracing/blending
	Th May 5	No Final Exam

Assignments

This is NOT an assignment, this is just a program to get things to compile and work. You will use this for your assignments but no assignments have been made at this point. Getting Started Getting Started Programs for Windows and Linux

 

Assignment 1: due January 30, 2013

Assignment 2: due February 20, 2013

Assignment 3: due March 20, 2013

Assignment 4: due April 10, 2013

Assignment 5: due April 25, 2013

 

 

Exams

                 Exam 1 Review Solution

 

                 Exam 2 Review Solution

 

                 Exam 3 Review Solution

 

Quizzes (from previous class, the students did not like quizzes so I will not give them but they will help with the exams).

Quiz 2 solution Solution to Quiz 2

Quiz 3 solution Solution to Quiz 3

Quiz 4 solution Solution to Quiz 4

Quiz 5 solution Solution to Quiz 5

Quiz 6 solution Solution to Quiz 6

Quiz 7 solution Solution to Quiz 7

Quiz 8 solution Solution to Quiz 8

Quiz 9 solution Solution to Quiz 9

Quiz 10 solution Solution to Quiz 10

Quiz 11 solution Solution to Quiz 11

 

 

Exams

Links

Example webpage of what we're looking for when it comes to documentation for homework assignments. Please remember that your documentation should be HTML.

Lab 2 grading set.

Lab 3 grading set.