Overview: The Syllabus below gives a general indication of the topics. More specific information will be given in class and will also be implicit in the requirements for various tests and machine problems.
| Week 1 |
Week starting Wednesday, June 20th:Introduction. The book. The website.
| Week 2 |
Week starting Monday, June 25th: Line drawing. Quiz on DDA and Bresenham algorithms for straight lines. Stack-based region filling.
| Week 3 |
Week starting Monday, July 2nd: No class July 4th. Enjoy the fireworks!
Scan-line polygon fill in Sec. 3-11. Study figures and description, not the source code. Chap. 4: Color lookup tables and antialising.
| Week 4 |
Week starting Monday, July 9th: Chap. 6. Basic line and polygon clipping.
| Week 5 |
Week starting Monday, July 16th: Introduction to 2D and 3D transformations, Chaps. 5 and 11. Representation of matrices, vectors and transformations in programs. Translation example applet with time steps. Matrix composition.
| Week 6 |
Week starting Monday, July 23rd: Rendering and transforming simple 3D objects. Chaps. 9 and 10.
| Week 7 |
Week starting Monday, July 30th: Chap. 13, visible surface detection.
| Week 8 |
Week starting Monday, August 6th: Chap. 14 Illumination models.
| Week 9 |
Week starting Monday, August 13th: Topics to be decided and/or catch up on preceding schedule.
| Week 10 |
Week starting Monday, August 20th: Course wrap-up and review for the Final.
| FINAL EXAM WEEK |
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