Staff
Instructor
- Chuck Hansen
- Email: hansen 'at' cs.utah.edu
- Office: 4692 WEB (south-west corner, 4th floor Warnock Bldg.)
- Hours: 3:30-4:30, T/Th
- Ashok Jallepalli
- Email: ashok.jallepalli 'at' utah.edu
- TA Hours:
- Mon/Wed: 9am-1pm and 4pm-5pm
- Fri: 8am-1pm
- EgmanLab, lab5-68 to lab5-72 depending on availability
- send email if you can't find me
Student Info
This is not an introductory course. That would be CS 5600 which is offered in the Spring semester. If you have not taken CS 5600, you need to discuss this with the instructor. I will not allow students to register for the course without appropriate pre-requisites. You are expected to be proficient at OpenGL programming before taking this course.
Everyone intending to take this course needs to get on the class mailing list. The one mailing list will serve both courses: CS 5610 and CS 6610.
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
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College Guidelines (pdf file)
Course Philosophy and Objectives
In this course we will explore advanced graphics topics utilizing features in the OpenGL graphics library. This will entail reading the textbook, attending lectures and applying those concepts to multiple programs to be assigned during the semester. We will also read research papers where graphics ideas were presented. There will be a final project. A good project for CS 5610 would be a particle system for smoke and fire and a good project for CS 6610 is to an algorithm described in a paper from the one of the recent SIGGRAPH proceedings or I3D.
The emphasis will be on programming for more extensive effects than Gouraud shading and other advanced graphics topics. This is a programming course, be prepared for heavy programming. I know of no other way to really learn OpenGL. The textbook will be the OpenGL Programming Guide and lots of handouts consisting of research papers you are expected to read and discuss in class. It is important to read these handouts, they form the basis for the advanced topics we will be discussing in class and you will be implementing as assignments. In class discussion will focus on issues raised by the readings including both handouts and the textbook. A substantial (same work as one programming assignment) final project will involve implementing a paper from the SIGGRAPH proceedings or an advanced graphics algorithm agreed upon with the instructor.
You will learn to program interesting effects for computer graphics. You will also learn to read research papers and implement algorithms from them. This is a skill you will use throughout your professional career.
Above all, this course should be fun.
Grading
80% assignments (Project counts as 2 assignments)
15% exams
5% class participation
DON'T share code! DON'T grab code off the web! (we check; you will fail the
class!)
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.
Exams
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2005 exams (one and two).
- There will not be a final. Grades will be assigned
based upon the homeworks, the project, and exams.
Weekly Plan 2010
Lecture Notes
- Lecture Notes from class.
Assignments
Problems with OpenGL function calls not being recognized
- Compiling with Visual Studio
Assignment 1
- Programming Assignment 1. Due 9/24/2010
Assignment 2
- Programming Assignment 2. Due 10/18/2010
Assignment 3
- Programming Assignment 3. Due 11/1/2010
Assignment 4
- Programming Assignment 4. Due 11/15/2010
Project
- Project approval: you should email Chuck Hansen your proposed project by Friday, Nov. 13, 2010 for approval.
- Project Assignment (You should think about what you are doing) Due Monday, Dec 13, 2010 Midnight
- Preliminary Project Results Due Monday Dec. 6, 2010 Midnight Your preliminary results must contain a web-link to your project writeup (to be used for the presentation) as well as a report on what you have done and what you will do to complete the project. Intermediate results are required, a fully developed, running program is not.
- CS 6610: If you are doing Wyman's paper, please be sure to include a skybox, and refractive sphere (among other refractive objects) since I need to verify the correctness, and do not just copy his shader code. To improve your grade, you can add more effects to your project.
- If you are lost about what to do for a project, check out the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (use the Marriott Library to access on-line journals) or ACM SIGGRAPH. If you are still lost, try a specific paper like Chris Wyman's "An Approximate Image-Space Approach for Interactive Refraction" which uses shader programming or Emil Praun's "Real-Time Hatching"
- Project Talk (last week of classes): You are required to give a short (5-10 min) talk on your project. This should 1) introduce your project, 2) describe where you are with your project (include 1-2 screen shots), 3) describe what else you will do with your project. This talk should be a HTML file or PDF file that you 'handin' to openGL5. CS 6610 students should submit their HTML file(s) or PDF file by Tuesday 12/7 at 10am and CS 5610 students should submit their HTML file(s) or PDF file by Thursday, 12/9 at 10am (the preliminary project results are due on Monday 12/6 though). CS 6610 students give their presentations on Tuesday (12/7) and CS 5610 students give their presentation on Thursday (12/9). Some 6610 students might be moved to Thursday due to time constraints. This presentation is the class presentation and combined with the preliminary results is 25% of your grade. The remaining 75% will depend on your final project.
- Project Demo: You are required to demo your project. I need to know where you will demo (WEB 130 is the preferable place), whether it will be on a Lab Windows machine, your laptop, or something else. Email me with the time you would like to demo on Tuesday of Finals week: Project Demo Time
Updates
Course Materials, Handouts, Resources, Links
- Getting Started
- OpenGL State Machine Diagram
- OpenGL Tutorials for x86 Linux
- Nate Robbins' OpenGL tutorial page
- Pyramidal Parametrices, Lance Williams 9/16
- Phong highlights through env mapping (envphong.c)
- Casting Curved Shadows on Curved Surfaces, Lance Williams
- Rendering Antialiased Shadows with Depth Maps, Reeves/Salesin/Cook
- Penumbra Maps: Approximate Soft Shadows in Real-Time, Chris Wyman and Charles Hansen
- Interactive Reflections on Curved Objects, Ofek and Rappoport
- The Hemi-cube A Radiosity Solution for Complex Environments, Cohen and Greenberg
- Plenoptic Function (Image Based Rendering)
- Lightfield Rendering (Image Based Rendering)
- The Lumigraph (Image Based Rendering)
- Billboard Clouds for Extreme Model Simplification, Decoret et al.
- Silhouette source code
- decal.c program which shows how to read then render the depth buffer
This page is very much under construction. Please check back frequently for updates. - Lecture Notes from class.
- 2009 exam solutions (one and two)
- 2010 exam 1 solution
- 2010 exam 2 solution