Computer Graphics
(601.457/657)

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General Information

Professor
- Michael Kazhdan
  - Office Hours: Thursdays 12-1pm @ Zoom (see syllabus for link) or by appointment
Teaching/Course Assistants
- Tommy Mitchel
  - Office Hours: Mondays 12-1pm @ Zoom (see syllabus for link)
- Aaron Rhee
  - Office Hours: Tuesdays 8-9pm @ Zoom (see syllabus for link)
- Jingguo Liang
  - Office Hours: Fridays 4-5pm @ Zoom (see syllabus for link)
Contacting Us
- cs457 "at" cs "dot" jhu "dot" edu
Contacting Each Other
- Piazza
Time and Location
- 600.457: MWF 11:00-11:50 @ Hodson 315 (and Zoom)
- 600.657: MWF 1:30-2:20 @ Malone 228 (and Zoom)
Prerequisites
- Intermediate Programming
- Data Structures
- Linear Algebra

Textbooks

Supplemental Textbooks
- Computer Graphics, C Version (2nd Edition),
  Donald Hearn and M. Pauline Baker,
  Prentice Hall, 1997, ISBN: 0135309247
- Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition),
  James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, and John F. Hughes,
  Addison-Wesley 1995, ISBN: 0201848406
- Fundamentals of Computer Graphics,
  Peter Shirley,
  A. K. Peters Ltd., 2002, ISBN: 1568811241
- OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL,
  Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, and Mason Woo,
  Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN: 0201461382

Coursework

Exams (30%)
- Exam 1: 10/15/21
- Exam 2: (TBA)
Assignments (60%)
- Assignment #1: Image Processing (Due 09/25/21 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #2: Ray Tracing (Due 10/24/21 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #3: OpenGL Rendering (Due 11/20/20 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #4: Keyframe Animation (Due 12/06/20 @ 11:59pm)
Class Participation (10%)

Submissions

Assignments should be submitted in zipped format via Blackboard:
- If submitting under Windows, the zipped file should be named <jhedid>.<assignment #>.zip.
  - Right click on the directory containing the submission. From the drop down menu, goto choose "Send To" and then choose "Compressed (zipped) Folder".
- If submitting under Linux, the zipped file should be named <jhedid>.<assignment #>.tgz
  - Change directories to the root of the assignment and type: "tar -czf ../<jhedid>.tgz .".
- Submission should include a write-up called <jhedid>.html in the root of the archive describing what was implemented and images of the results. Included in the write up should be:
  - Name
  - JHED ID
  - Compiler / Environment / Platform used
  - Number of late days used
  - Description of the parts of the assignment that have been fully implemented, partially implemented, or left un-implemented
- Any images, videos, etc. that are linked to by the write-up should be contained in a directory called <jhedid>_HTML.
- Submissions to the art contest should be contained in the <jhedid>_HTML directory and should be named <jhedid>.art.<submission #>.[jpeg/bmp/avi/etc.].
- The code should compile. Code that does not compile will not be graded!
- The assignments are presented so that implementing the necessary code can be done completely within the *.todo.cpp files. Please restrict your coding to these sections. If you must modify other code, please specify accordingly in your write-up file.
- The archive should contain all .cpp, .h, .inl, and project / make files that are necessary for compilation.
- Please do not include any .exe, .obj, .o, .a, .lib, .ncb, .ilk, or any other binary or compiler files in the submission.

Course Outline

	Date	Subject	Related Reading	Video
Week 1	8/30/21	Introduction	Syllabus	Video
	9/01/21	Image processing		Video
	9/03/21	Image processing, warping, and compositing		Video
Week 2	9/06/20	Class cancelled: Labor Day
	9/08/21	Class cancelled: Rosh HaShana
	9/10/21	Image sampling		Video
Week 3	9/13/21	Image morphing	[Beier and Neely, 1992]	Video, Black or White
	9/15/21	3D Rendering and Ray Casting		Video
	9/17/21	Intersection and Acceleration		Video
Week 4	9/20/21	Direct Illumination		Video
	9/22/21	Class cancelled: Sukkot
	9/24/21	Indirect Illumination		Video
Week 5	9/27/21	Modeling Transformations		Video
	9/29/21	Class cancelled: Simhat Torah
	10/01/21	Scene Graphs and Barycentric Coordinates		Video
Week 6	10/04/21	3D Polygon Rendering Pipeline		Video
	10/06/21	Clipping and Scan Conversion		Video
	10/08/21	Shading and Visibility		Video
Week 7	10/11/21	Texture Mapping		Video
	10/13/21	Texture Synthesis	[Perlin, 85], [Efros and Leung, 99], [Efros and Freeman, 01], [Cohen, Shade, Hiller, and Deussen, 03], [Barnes, Shechtman, Finkelstein, and Goldman, 09]	Video
	10/15/21	Midterm
Week 8	10/18/21	3D Object Representation		Video
	10/20/21	Subdivision Surfaces	[Loop, 87] [Zorin and Schroder, 00]	Video
	10/22/21	Parametric Curves	Exact Evaluation Of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces At Arbitrary Parameter Values	Video
Week 9	10/25/21	Parametric Curves		Video
	10/27/21	Parametric Surfaces		Video
	10/29/21	Modeling	[Fowler, Meinhardt, and Prusinkiewicz, 92]	Video
Week 10	11/01/21	Solid Modeling	[Lorensen and Cline, 87] [Muraki, 91]	Video
	11/03/21	The Procrusted Method and 3D Scanning	[Levoy et al., 00]	Video
	11/05/21	Surface Reconstruction	[Hoppe et al., 92] [Amenta et al., 98] [Kolluri et al., 04] [Kazhdan et al., 06]	Video
Week 11	11/08/21	Computer Animation		Video
	11/10/21	Animating Transformations		Video
	11/12/21	Quaternions and Exponentials	Visualizing quaternions	Video
Week 12	11/15/21	Radiosity		Video
	11/17/21	Gradient-Domain Processing for Large Images	World Wide Telescope	Video
	11/19/21	Shape Matching		Video
	11/22/21	Thanksgiving vacation
	11/24/21
	11/26/21
Week 13	11/29/21	Surface Reconstruction: FFT vs. Poisson		Video
	12/01/21	Midterm
	12/03/20	Signal Processing: From Images to Surfaces		Video
Week 14	12/06/21

Computer Graphics (601.457/657)

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Computer Graphics
(601.457/657)