| Date |
Title |
Readings and Assignments |
Extras |
| 8/24 |
Introduction to Course and Computer Graphics |
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| 8/29 |
Displays and Frame Buffers |
Read:
• Class syllabus
• Angel, pp.19-31 [reader pp. 153-168 (157-172)].
• Hearn & Baker, pp. 35-49 [reader pp. 68-82 (72-86)].
•
OpenGL Programming Guide
• First four sections of chapter 2
• First section of chapter 6
Optional:
• Foley et al., sections 1.5, 4.2-4.5
• I.E. Sutherland.
Sketchpad: a man-machine graphics communication system.
Proceedings of the Spring Join Computer Conference,
pp. 329-346, 1963.
• T.H. Myer & I.E. Sutherland.
On the design of display processors.
Communications of the ACM 11(6): 410-414, 1968.
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LCDs,
Display Technologies
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| 8/31 |
Sampling Theory
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Project #1
assigned.
(Due Mon Sept 19; artifact due Mon Sept 26)
Read:
Recommended:
• Don P. Mitchell and Arun N. Netravali,
“Reconstruction
Filters in Computer Graphics,”
Computer Graphics 22(4), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 88, pp. 221-228, 1988.
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Continuous 1D convolution,
Aliasing,
Levoy's handout on sampling/reconstruction
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| 9/5 |
Image Processing
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Read:
• Jain, Kasturi, Schunck, Machine Vision, McGraw-Hill, 1995.
Sections 4.2-4.4,4.5(intro), 4.5.5, 4.5.6, 5.1-5.4.
[Course reader, subset of pp. 91-152 (95-156)]
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Discrete 1D convolution,
Snoop,
Image warp
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| 9/7 |
Function Spaces, Orthogonal Functions and Fourier Series
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Read:
• Watt, Section 14.1
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Orthogonal Basis Transforms
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| 9/12 |
Fourier Transforms
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HW #1 assigned (Due Mon Sept 26 in class)
Read:
Recommended:
• Ron Bracewell, The Fourier Transform and Its Applications,
McGraw-Hill.
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| 9/14 |
Affine Transformations
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Read:
• Watt, Section 1.1.
Optional:
• Foley, et al, Chapter 5.1-5.5.
• David F. Rogers and J. Alan Adams,
Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics,
2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990, Chapter 2.
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Change of basis,
Affine Transformation Game
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| 9/19 |
Shading |
Project #2
assigned.
(Due Mon Oct 10; artifact due Mon Oct 17)
Read:
• Watt, sections 6.2-6.3
Optional:
• Watt, chapter 7.
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OpenGL shading demo (Windows),
Szymon's
BRDF viewer
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| 9/21 |
Ray Tracing |
Read:
• Watt, sections 1.3-1.4, 12.1-12.5.1.
• T. Whitted.
An improved illumination model for shaded display.
Communications of the ACM 23(6), 343-349, 1980.
[Course reader, pp. 211-217 (215-221)]
Optional:
• A. Glassner. An Introduction to Ray Tracing. Academic Press,
1989.
• K. Turkowski,
“Properties of Surface Normal Transformations,
” Graphics Gems, 1990, pp. 539-547.
[Course reader pp. 218-226 (222-230)]
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| 9/26 |
Anti-aliased and accelerated ray tracing
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Read:
• Watt, sections 12.5.3 – 12.5.4, 14.7
Optional:
• A. Glassner. An Introduction to Ray Tracing.
Academic Press, 1989.
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Nyquist limit
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| 9/28 |
Distribution Ray Tracing
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Read:
• Watt, sections 10.6 ,14.8.
Optional:
• A. Glassner. An Introduction to Ray Tracing. Academic Press,
1989.
• Robert L. Cook, Thomas Porter, Loren Carpenter.
“
Distributed Ray Tracing.” Computer Graphics
(Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 84). 18 (3). pp. 137-145. 1984.
• James T. Kajiya.
“
The Rendering Equation.” Computer Graphics
(Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 86). 20 (4). pp. 143-150. 1986.
• Henrik Wann Jensen,
“Basic Monte Carlo Integration”,
Appendix A from book “Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon
Mapping”.
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| 10/3 - 10/5 |
Texture mapping
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Read:
• Watt, intro to Chapter 8 and intros to 8.1, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8.
Recommended:
• Paul S. Heckbert. Survey of texture mapping.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 6(11): 56--67,
November 1986. [Course reader pp. 227-238]
Optional:
• Watt, the rest of Chapter 8
• Woo, Neider, & Davis, Chapter 9
• James F. Blinn and Martin E. Newell.
Texture and reflection in computer generated images.
Communications of the ACM 19(10): 542--547, October 1976.
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Texture Mapping Primitives
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| 10/10-10/12 |
Hierarchical modeling
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Project #3 Assigned.
Due Mon Oct 31; artifact due Mon Nov 7)
Read:
• Angel, sections 9.1 - 9.6 [reader pp. 169-185]
• OpenGL Programming Guide, chapter 3 [available
online]
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Hierarchy of transformations
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| 10/17 |
Particle systems
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Read:
• Witkin, Particle System Dynamics,
SIGGRAPH ’97 course notes on Physically Based Modeling.
[Course reader pp. 283-294]
• Witkin and Baraff, Differential Equation Basics,
SIGGRAPH ’01 course notes on Physically Based Modeling.
[Course reader pp. 275-282]
Optional:
• Hocknew and Eastwood. Computer simulation using particles.
Adam Hilger, New York, 1988.
• Gavin Miller.
“
The motion dynamics of snakes and worms.
” Computer Graphics 22:169-178, 1988.
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Soda Constructor
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Read:
• John Lasseter.
Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer
animation. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH (Computer Graphics)
21(4): 35-44, July 1987.
[Course reader pp. 295-304]
Recommended:
• Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston,
Disney animation: The Illusion of Life, Hyperion, 1981.
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Pixar shorts,
Perlin walkers
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| 10/19 |
Parametric curves
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Read:
• Watt, sections 3.0 - 3.2.2 [textbook pp. 66-84]
Optional: (non-uniform B-Splines; NURBS; continuity)
• Watt, sections 3.2.3 - 3.3.2 [textbook pp. 84-94]
• Foley and vanDam, 2nd ed, pp. 480-482
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Siggraph curve applet
German CAGD applet kit
Basis and knots applet
German applet with basis functions
U. Michigan curve applet
|
| 10/24 |
Interpolating curves
|
Optional:
• Bartels, Beatty, and Barsky. An Introduction to Splines
for use in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, 1987.
[Course reader, pp. 239-247]
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| 10/28 |
Parametric Surfaces
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Read:
• Watt, 2.1.4, 3.4-3.5.
Optional:
• Watt, 3.6.
• Bartels, Beatty, and Barsky.
An Introduction to Splines for use in
Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, 1987.
[Course reader, pp. 239-247]
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Bézier
patch interactive demonstration
|
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| 10/31 |
Subdivision curves
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Project #4 Assigned.
Proposal due Mon Nov 7; Presentation Due Mon Nov 28; report due Fri Dec 2)
Recommended:
• Stollnitz, DeRose, and Salesin. Wavelets for Computer Graphics:
Theory and Applications, 1996, section 6.1-6.3, A.5.
[Course reader pp. 248-259 and pp. 273-274]
Note: there is an error in Stollnitz, et al., section A.5.
Equation A.3 should read:
MV = VΛ
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|
| 11/2 |
Subdivision surfaces
|
Recommended:
• Stollnitz, DeRose, and Salesin. Wavelets for Computer Graphics:
Theory and Applications, 1996, section 10.2.
[Course reader pp. 262-268]
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Triangular subdivision surfaces
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| 11/7 |
Midterm Review |
|
Sample old exam
Another old exam
|
| 11/9 |
Midterm Exam |
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| 11/14-11/16 |
Projections and z-buffers
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Read:
• Watt, Section 5.2.2 – 5.2.4, 6.3, 6.6
(esp. intro and subsections 1, 4, and 8–10)
Optional:
• Foley, et al, Chapter 5.6 and Chapter 6
• David F. Rogers and J. Alan Adams,
Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill,
New York, 1990, Chapter 2.
• I. E. Sutherland, R. F. Sproull, and R. A. Schumacker,
A characterization of ten hidden surface algorithms, ACM Computing Surveys 6(1): 1-55, March 1974.
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Perspective Camera Transformations,
Hitchcock,
Z-buffer
|
|
| 11/21 |
Visual perception
|
Read:
• Glassner, Principles of Digital Image Synthesis, pp. 5-32.
[Course reader pp.1-28]
• Watt , Chapter 15.
• Brian Wandell. Foundations of Vision. Sinauer Associates,
Sunderland, MA, pp. 45-50 and 69-97, 1995.
[Course reader pp. 29-34 and pp. 35-63]
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Optical illusions,
more,
Rod response,
cone metamers,
reflective metamers,
color spaces
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| 11/23 |
Thanksgiving
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| 11/28 |
Project Presentations
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| 11/30 |
Project presentations
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