Schedule

All lecture dates and due dates are tentative and subject to change.

date		topic	reading	reference	due
29	Aug	Introduction	Text Ch 1	slides | notes
1	Sep	Images	Text Ch 3	slides | notes
3	Sep	Perspective	Text Ch 4 (old 10) up to 4.3	slides | notes
5	Sep	Perspective		slides | notes	hw1
8	Sep	Ray Tracing	Text Ch 4 (old 10) up to 4.8	slides | notes
10	Sep	Ray Tracing		slides | notes
12	Sep	Transformations	Text Ch 5, 6	slides | notes	hw2
15	Sep	Transformations		slides | notes
16	Sep				Ray 1
17	Sep	Scene graphs		slides | notes
19	Sep	Transformations		slides | notes	hw3
22	Sep	Viewing	Text Ch 7	slides | notes
24	Sep	Viewing [demo]		slides | notes
26	Sep	Pipeline | OpenGL [slides]	Text Ch 8 (new)	slides | notes	hw4
29	Sep	Pipeline		slides | notes
1	Oct	Pipeline		slides | notes
3	Oct	Midterm I
6	Oct	Meshes	Text Ch 12 (old 13)	slides | notes
8	Oct	Meshes		slides | notes
10	Oct	Pipeline (contd.)		slides | notes	Model
13	Oct	Fall break
15	Oct	Textures	Text Ch 10 (old 11)	slides | notes
17	Oct	Sampling	Text Ch 9 (old 4)	slides | notes	hw5
20	Oct	PA3 Help Session		slides | notes
22	Oct	Sampling		slides | notes
24	Oct	Sampling		slides | notes
27	Oct	Antialiasing | Compositing	Text Ch 3; [Porter & Duff 1984]	slides | notes
28	Oct				Pipeline
29	Oct	Antialiasing | Texture sampling	[Williams 1983]	slides | notes
31	Oct	Color	Text Ch 20; Draft of 3rd edition color chapter	slides | notes
3	Nov	Color		slides | notes
5	Nov	Color		slides | notes
7	Nov	Ray Tracing 2	Text Sec. 10.8-10.9 (2nd ed)	slides | notes	hw6
10	Nov	Reflection and Shading		slides | notes
12	Nov	Splines	Text Ch. 15 (2nd ed.)	slides | notes
14	Nov	Midterm 2		slides | notes
17	Nov	Splines		slides | notes
19	Nov	Splines		slides | notes
21	Nov	Surfaces		slides | notes
24	Nov	Surfaces		slides | notes
25	Nov				Ray 2
26	Nov	Thanksgiving
28	Nov	Thanksgiving
1	Dec	Animation		slides | notes
3	Dec	User-centered Design		slides | notes
5	Dec	Wrap-up		slides | notes	Contest | hw7
16	Dec	Final exam