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Catalog description: Focuses on characteristics and programming of graphics output devices. Presents basics [sic] point and line drawing, two-dimensional displays, and clipping and windowing. Surveys pictures: data structures and display file organization; and interaction: graphical input and external events-operating system considerations. Includes some three-dimensional drawing.
Prerequisites: COM 1201 and MTH 1301.
Textbook: Hearn and Baker. Computer Graphics, Second Edition. Prentice Hall, 1994.
This course covers the basics of two-dimensional interactive graphics, using the Apple Macintosh as an example. We will cover most of the textbook's chapters 1 through 6, chapter 8, and some additional material on three-dimensional graphics and color models.
Three or four programming assignments will account for about 50 per cent of the final grade. The midterm exam will account for about 20 per cent, and the final exam will account for about 30 per cent.
Programming assignments will be accepted late according to the following schedule of discounts:
late 1 day or less 10 % discount
late 2 days 20 % discount
late 3 days 30 % discount
late 4 days 50 % discount
late 5 days 80 % discount
late 6 days or more 100 % discount
Source code and other documents provided by the instructor will be placed on the Avalon server under Course:COM 1370:Student. Apple's documentation for the Macintosh is available on-line in Avalon:Software:Macintosh:CCS Limited License:Inside Macintosh f. You need to copy over the Apple DocViewer if it isn't on your machine; it's in the same folder as the documentation.