Course Schedule
Lecture topics, slides, and homeworks listed on future dates are likely to change as the course progresses.
Date | Topic | Slides | Homework out |
| 6/25/12 | Introduction |  | Homework 1: rasterization (written part; coding part) |
| 6/27/12 | Rasterization: Points, lines, and triangles | | |
| 6/29/12 | Transformations, homogeneous coordinates | | |
| 7/2/12 | Basics of 3D rendering | | Homework 2: basic OpenGL (written part; coding part) |
| 7/6/12 | The OpenGL pipeline | | |
| 7/9/12 | Texture mapping, modern hardware/programmable shaders | | Homework 3: programmable shaders (written part; coding part) |
| 7/11/12 | Perception | | |
| 7/13/12 | Guest lecture: Light and color (Qi-xing Huang, Geometric Computing Group) | | |
| 7/16/12 | Guest lecture: Shading, texturing, and materials (Katherine Breeden, Computer Graphics Group) | | |
| 7/18/12 | In-class midterm; covers all lecture material through 7/16/12 | ||
| 7/20/12 | Ray tracing | | |
| 7/23/12 | Sampling and Fourier theory | | Homework 4: ray tracing (written part; coding part) |
| 7/25/12 | Geometric modeling | | |
| 7/27/12 | Geometric modeling II; input and output technology | | |
| 7/30/12 | Animation techniques | | Homework 5: sampling and geometry (written part; coding part; original MLS paper) |
| 8/1/12 | Introduction to image processing | | |
| 8/3/12 | Image compression | | |
| 8/6/12 | Video processing and compression; digital photography | | Homework 6: image processing (written part; coding part) |
| 8/8/12 | Typography and layout; game programming | | |
| 8/10/12 | Introduction to vision | | |
| 8/13/12 | Guest lecture: ILM's VFX pipeline and the future of performance capture (Hao Li, Industrial Light and Magic) | ||
| 8/15/12 | Final exam review | | |
| 8/18/12 | Final exam (12:15pm to 3:15pm) |