COM1370 Winter 2002 Schedule

Professor Fell

Text:

Computer Graphics - C Version, Second Edition, Donald Hearn and M. Pauline Baker, Prentice Hall, 1997.

 

Schedule:

      Date Reading Quiz Program
due
Class Topic
1/4Chapter 1   Organization
Machines and Languages
History And Terminology
The Sampler Program
1/8Chapter 2   Graphics Primitives
(samples from JAVA)
1/9Section A.1
pages 84 - 88
  Points and Lines
DDA Algorithm
1/11Pages 88 - 94  Bresenham's Line Algorithm
1/15Section 3.5  Circles
1/16  Sampler dueFinish & Review
1/18 Quiz 1 
The 2-D Project
1/22pages 117 - 127  Scan-Line Fill
1/23pages 127 - 130  Boundary-Fill Algorithm
Flood-Fill Algorithm
1/25Section 4.1  Go over Quiz
Line Attributes
1/29handout Functional Spec
for 2-D Project due
Write Modes
Simple Movement
1/30   Pixmaps
Simple Motion
2/1Section A.2
Section 5.1
  Transformations and Matricess
2/5sections 5.2 - 5.4  Homogeneous Coordinates
Composite Transformations
2/6Pages 224 - 230  User Interfaces
2/8Section 6.8  Cohen-Sutherland Line Clipping
2/12 Quiz 2 More Clipping
2/13Chapter 8  Polygon Clipping
2/15Section 10.6  Spline Representations
2/19Section 10.7  Cubic Splines
2/20Section 10.8  Bezier Curves
2/22 Quiz 3 The 3-D project
2/26  2-D Project due3-D Concepts
2/27Chapter 9  more 3-D Concepts
Visible Surface by Ray-Tracing
3/1Section 13.10
Handout
  Ray-Sphere Intersection
3/5Sections 14.1 - 14.2  Illumination Models
Ambient Light
Diffuse Reflection
3/6Sections 15.1 - 15.3  Color Models
CIE Chromaticity Diagram
3/8Section 15.4
Sections 15.7 - 15.8
 3-D Project dueRGB Color Model
HSV Color Model
3/11Final Exam

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