CSG140 Computer Graphics Spring 2006 Schedule

Professor Harriet Fell

Class

Topic

Reading

Shirley

Reading

Watt

Assignment

1. January 9
Monday 		Graphics Overview
Course Overview
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Color; ppm format
Mathematical Basics 		Chapter 1
 
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Section 3.3, handout
Sections 2.1-2.6, 2.10, 2.11 		 
 
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Pages 418-424
Section 1.3 		 
2. January 23
Monday 		Ray Tracing
Ray-Sphere Intersection
Light: Diffuse Reflection
Phong Shading
Shadows
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Matrices
Transformations
 Sections 10.1,10.2
Section 10.3.1
pages 191-193
Section 9.2
Section 10.5
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Chapter 5
Chapter 6
  
Sections 1.4.1, 1.4.2 Section 6.2
ection 6.2.1
Sections 9.1, 9.2, 12.1
 
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Section 1.1
Sections 5.1, 5.2 		Assignment 0
due
Tuesday, January 24
by midnight
3. January 30
Monday 		 
Viewing in 2D and 3D
 
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Recursive Ray-Tracing
Specular Reflection
Refraction
  
Chapter 7
 
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Section 10.4
Section 10.6
Section 10.7
 Sections 12.2, 12.3
Section 1.3.5
Section 1.4.6
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4. February 6
Monday 		Raster Algorithms
Lines, Circles,Triangles
Antialiasing
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Ray-Plane
Ray-Triangle, Ray-Polygon
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ScanLine PolyFill
Flood Fill
  
Sections 3.5, 3.6
page 67
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Sections 10.3.2, 10.3.3
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handout
  		 
 
 
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Sections 1.4.3, 1.4.4
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  		Assignment 1 due
due
Tuesday, February 7
by midnight
5. February 13
Monday 		Texture and Bump Maps
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2D-Viewport Clipping
Cohen-Sutherland
Liang-Barsky
 Chapter 11
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handout
 
  		Sections 8.1, 8.4
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6. February 27
Monday 		Bezier Curves and Splines
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Parametric Bicubic Surfaces
Quadrics 		Chapter 15
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Sections 2.7, 2.8
  		Section 3.1
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Section 3.4
Section 1.4.5 		Assignment 2 due
Tuesday, February 28
by midnight
7. March 13
Monday 		Poly Mesh
Visible Surface Determination
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noise, turbulence
clouds, marble 		 
 
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Noise Samples
Noise Code 		Section 4.1
Section 6.6
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8.7
  		 
8. March 20
Monday 		Color
Perception
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Animation 		Chapter 20
Chapter 21
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Chapter 16 		Chapter 15
 
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Chapter 17 		Assignment 3 due
Tuesday, March 21
by midnight
9. March 27
Monday 		Assorted Topics, e.g.:
Fractals
Morphing
Radiosity 		   
 
Section 16.4
Chapter 11 		Assignment 4 due
Tuesday, March 28
by midnight
10. April 4
Monday 		EXAM - 3 Hours
    
  
11. April 10
Monday 		Student Presentations    
  
12. April 17
Monday 		Student Presentations    
  
13. April 21
Friday 		Student Presentations    
  

Harriet Fell
College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue #202WVH,
Boston, MA 02115
email: fell@ccs.neu.edu
Phone: (617) 373-2198 / Fax: (617) 373-5121

Last Updated: February 17, 2006 4:12 p.m.
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