CS 248 - Introduction to Computer Graphics

Autumn Quarter, 2008
Instructor: Marc Levoy

Welcome to the home page of CS 248. This page is the repository for all lecture notes, class handouts, assignments, and other useful information regarding the course. The URL of this page is http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-08/.

What's new December 4?

• Lecture notes:
  • Image-based modeling and rendering
    (or PDF)
• The final exam will be Monday, Dec. 8, 3:30-6:30pm, in Gates B01,
  3-hour, closed book, on lectures from the 2nd half of the course (except today's)

• Here are the results from the video game competition:
  • The grand prize was won by Michael Bostock for his game, Polly Be Gone.
  • The second prize was won by Daniel Chang for Tank Game.
  • The wacky/creative prize was won by the team of Kate Swanson, Eric Ruth, and Chris Piech for NDOTO.
    
    The other finalists were (in no particular order):
  • Sung Hee Park, Nam Wook Kim, Soo Woung Ryu, Age of Transformers
  • Jeremie Papon, Sailing
  • Shireesh Agrawal, Kevin Motag, Filip Gruvstad, Out for a Walk
  • Jongmin Baek, Hazard
  • Loren Yu, John Hernandez, Tanks on a Rubiks Cube
    
    Congratulations to the winners!

Course materials

• Course outline (HO #1)
• Course schedule (HO #2) (click here for the lecture notes)
• Programming assignment #1 (HO #3)
• A few examples of paint brushes (HO #4)
• Cartesian colorspaces (HO #5)
• Sampling and reconstruction (HO #6)
• Programming assignment #2 (HO #7)
• Midterm Review Slides
• Programming assignment #3 (HO #8)
• Video game project resources
• OpenGL Help Slides
• OpenGL Help Example Files
• A few animations from project #2
  
  • Kate Swanson: Flutterby (AVI)
  • Michael Bostock: Font and Sierpinski (MOVs)
• Professor Levoy's e-mail on advanced features
• Advanced OpenGL and Shader Slides (or PDF)
• Advanced OpenGL and Shader Example Files
• Radiometric units (HO #9)
• Final Review Slides
• Results of the video game competition

Class links

• Class: Gates B01 (a.k.a. the HP auditorium, in the basement), Tue/Thu, 2:15 - 3:30
• Home Page: http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-08/
• Course directory on leland: /usr/class/cs248
• Newsgroup: su.class.cs248
• Teaching assistants: cs248-aut0809-tas@lists.stanford.edu
• Handouts: in a cabinet in Gates Hall, wing 3B, copy room (room 377)

Other useful links

• Other courses in graphics
• Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory
• Computer Science Department
• Stanford University