| Week | Class | Date | CS540 Topics | Reading | Due | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 8-Jan | Course Overview The Sampler Program  | 
  1.1-1.5 | ||
| 2 | 10-Jan | Graphics History and Terminology | ||||
| 3 | 11-Jan | Java Graphics Primitives | ||||
| 2 | 15-Jan | Martin Luther King Day | ||||
| 4 | 17-Jan | RGB Color | 3.3 | |||
| 5 | 18-Jan | Points and Lines Line Attributes  | 
  3.5, 3.7 | Sampler Program | ||
| 3 | 6 | 22-Jan | Circles The 2D Project  | 
  2.2 | ||
| 7 | 24-Jan | Picking Highlighting  | 
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| 8 | 25-Jan | User Interfaces | ||||
| 4 | 9 | 29-Jan | Scan-Line Fill | 2D Functional Spec | ||
| 10 | 31-Jan | Boundary Fill | ||||
| 11 | 1-Feb | Transformations and Matrices Homogeneous Coordinates Composite Transformations  | 
  6.1-6.3 | |||
| 5 | 12 | 5-Feb | Transformations in Java 2DGraphics | |||
| 13 | 7-Feb | Review | ||||
| 14 | 8-Feb | Exam 1 | ||||
| 6 | 15 | 12-Feb | Go over Exam 1 | |||
| 16 | 14-Feb | Cohen-Sutherland Line Clipping | ||||
| 17 | 15-Feb | Liang Barsky Line Clipping | 2D Project | |||
| 7 | 19-Feb | Presidents' Day | ||||
| 18 | 21-Feb | Polygon Clipping | ||||
| 19 | 22-Feb | Barycentric Coordinates Triangles  | 
  3.6 | |||
| 8 | 20 | 26-Feb | 3-D Viewing First 3-D Project  | 
  7.1 | ||
| 21 | 28-Feb | Hidden Surface Elimination BSP-Trees  | 
  8.1 | |||
| 22 | 1-Mar | Z-Buffer | 8.2 | Color Triangle | ||
|   |   | 5-Mar 7-Mar 8-Mar  | 
  Spring Break Week | |||
| 9 | 23 | 12-Mar | Curves | 15.1-15.4 | ||
| 24 | 14-Mar | Cubic Splines | 15.5 | |||
| 25 | 15-Mar | Bezier Curves | 15.6.1 | |||
| 10 | 26 | 19-Mar | Ray Tracing | 10.1-10.2 | ||
| 27 | 21-Mar | Ray-Sphere Intersection | 10.3 | |||
| 28 | 22-Mar | Exam 2 | ||||
| 11 | 29 | 26-Mar | Illumination Models Ambient Light Diffuse Reflection  | 
  9.1 | ||
| 30 | 28-Mar | Shadows | 10.5 | |||
| 31 | 29-Mar | Phong Shading | 9.2 | First 3-D Project | ||
| 12 | 32 | 2-Apr | Fractals | |||
| 33 | 4-Apr | more Fractals | ||||
| 34 | 5-Apr | Morphing | ||||
| 13 | 35 | 9-Apr | Animation 101 | |||
| 36 | 11-Apr | Color RGB and HSV | Chapter 20 21.2.2  | 
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| 37 | 12-Apr | Color CIE | Second 3-D Project Simple Ray-Tracing  | 
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| 14 | 16-Apr | Patriots' Day | ||||
| 38 | 18-Apr | Final Review | ||||
| 19-Apr | Reading Day | |||||