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