COM3370 Computer Graphics Winter 2000 Schedule

Professor Harriet Fell

Class

Topic

Reading

Hearn & Baker

Reading

Watt

Assignment

1. January 6 Graphics Overview
Course Overview
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Our system
Color; ppm format
Chapters 1, 2

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Chapter 15

 

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Chapter 14

 
2. January 13 Light: Diffuse Reflection
Ray Tracing: Ray-Sphere
Shadows
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DDA, Bresenham Lines,Circles
Antialiasing
pages 496-500
pages 532-533
page 511
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pages 83-102
pages 171-178
2.1 - 2.4
7.1 - 7.5
7.8
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Assignment 0 due
3. January 20 Recursive Ray-Tracing
Specular Reflection
Refraction
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ScanLine PolyFill
(Flood Fill)
pages 527-533
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Section 3-11
7.6, 7.7
2.5 - 2.9
2.11
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4. January 27 2D-Viewport Clipping
Cohen-Sutherland
&or Liang-Barsky
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Transformations
Viewing in 2D and 3D

pages 216-234
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Chapter 5, 11, 12
Appendix A

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1.1 - 1.6
Assignment 1 due
5. February 3 Ray-Plane / Ray-Polygon
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Texture and Bump Maps
Pages 533-534; 125
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Section 14-9
   
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10.2, 10.3
6. February 10 Bezier Curves and Splines
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Parametric Bicubic Surfaces
Quadrics
Sections 10-6,7, 8, 9
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Section 10-3
Chapter 6
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Problem 1.8, pages 41, 42
Assignment 2 due
7. February 17 Poly Mesh
Visible Surface Determination
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noise, turbulence
clouds, marble
Chapter 9
Section 10.1
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Noise Samples
Noise Code
1.8
Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
 
7. February 24 EXAM - 3 HOURS
     
9. March 2 Assorted Topics, e.g.:
Fractals
Animation
Morphing
Chapter 16  
Chapter 11
 
Chapter 13
Assignment 3 due
10. March 9 Student Talks
   
 
11. March 16 Presentations of final work    
Assignment 4 due

Harriet Fell
College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue #161CN,
Boston, MA 02115
Internet: HREF="mailto:graphics@harrietfell.com">graphics@harrietfell.com
Phone: (617) 373-2198 / Fax: (617) 373-5121

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