COM3370 Computer Graphics Summer 2001 Schedule

Professor Harriet Fell

Class

Topic

Reading

Hearn & Baker

Reading

Watt

Assignment

1. June 21
Thursday
Graphics Overview
Course Overview
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Our system
Color; ppm format
Chapters 1, 2

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Chapter 15

 

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Chapter 15

 
2. June 28
Thursday
Light: Diffuse Reflection
Ray Tracing: Ray-Sphere
Shadows
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DDA, Bresenham Lines,Circles
Antialiasing
pages 496-500
pages 532-533
page 511
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pages 83-102
pages 171-178
6.2
1.4.1, 1.4.2
9.1, 9.2, 12.1
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Assignment 0 due
3. July 2
Monday
Recursive Ray-Tracing
Specular Reflection
Refraction
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ScanLine PolyFill
(Flood Fill)
pages 527-533
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Section 3-11
1.4.6
12.2, 12.3
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4. July 9
Monday
2D-Viewport Clipping
Cohen-Sutherland
&or Liang-Barsky
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Transformations
Viewing in 2D and 3D

pages 216-234
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Chapter 5, 11, 12
Appendix A

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1.1.1
Assignment 1 due
5. July 16
Monday
Ray-Plane / Ray-Polygon
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Texture and Bump Maps
Pages 533-534; 125
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Section 14-9
1.4.3
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8.1, 8.4
 
6. July 23
Monday
Bezier Curves and Splines
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Parametric Bicubic Surfaces
Quadrics
Sections 10-6,7, 8, 9
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Section 10-3
3.1
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3.4
1.4.5
Assignment 2 due
7. July 30
Monday
Poly Mesh
Visible Surface Determination
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noise, turbulence
clouds, marble
Chapter 9
Section 10.1
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Noise Samples
Noise Code
3.1, 3.2
4.1, 6.6
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8.7
 
8. August 6
Monday
EXAM - 3 HOURS
     
9. August 13
Monday
Assorted Topics, e.g.:
Fractals
Animation
Morphing
Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Assignment 3 due
10. August 20
Monday
Student Talks
   
 
11. August 27
Monday
Presentations of final work    
Assignment 4 due

Harriet Fell
College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue #161CN,
Boston, MA 02115
email: graphics@harrietfell.com
Phone: (617) 373-2198 / Fax: (617) 373-5121

Last Updated: June 24, 2001 6:19 p.m.
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