Computer Graphics
(601.457/657)

General Information Textbooks Coursework Submissions Course Outline Syllabus

General Information

Professor
- Misha Kazhdan (webpage, e-mail)
  - Office Hours: Wednesday Noon-1pm @ Malone 229 (or by appointment)
Teaching/Course Assistants Office Hours
- Hongyi Liu: Wednesdays 3-5pm @ Malone 216
- Silvia Xia: Fridays 10-11am @ Malone 122
- Harry Yu: Thursdays 10-11am @ Malone 216
Contacting Each Other
- Piazza
Time and Location
- MWF 11:00-11:50 @ Hodson 311 / 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: 10/11/23
- Exam 2: 12/06/23
Assignments (60%)
- Assignment #1: Image Processing (Due September 23 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #2: Ray Tracing (Due October 21 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #3: OpenGL Rendering (Due November 18 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #4: Keyframe Animation (Due December 9 @ 11:59pm)
Class Participation (10%)

Submissions

Assignments should be submitted in zipped format via Canvas:
- 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 or <jhedid>.pdf 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.* 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 *.todo.* files. If you have modified other files (including the solution, project, or make files), please include those as well.
- 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	8/28/23	Intro	Syllabus	video
	8/30/23	Image Processing		video
	9/01/23	Image Filtering, Warping, and Morphing	[Beier and Neely, '92]	video
Week 2	9/04/23	Class cancelled: Labor Day
	9/06/23	Image Sampling		video
	9/08/23	LAB
Week 3	9/11/23	3D Rendering and Ray Casting		video
	9/13/23	Accelerated Ray Casting		video
	9/15/23	Direct Illumination		video
Week 4	9/18/23	Indirect Illumination		video
	9/20/23	Modeling Transformations		video
	9/22/23	LAB
Week 5	9/25/23	Class cancelled: Yom Kippur
	9/27/23	Functors etc. in C++		video
	9/29/23	Scene Graphs and Barycentric Coordinates		video
Week 6	10/02/23	3D Polygon Rendering Pipeline
	10/04/23	Scan Conversion
	10/06/23	LAB
Week 7	10/09/23	Texture Mapping
	10/11/23	Midterm
	10/13/23	Texture Synthesis
Week 8	10/16/23	Radiosity
	10/18/23	LAB
	10/20/23	Class cancelled: Fall Break
Week 9	10/23/23	3D Object Represenation; (Loop) Subdivision Surfaces
	10/25/23	Representing Meshes; Parametric Curves
	10/27/23	Parametric Curves
Week 10	10/30/23	Parametric Surfaces
	11/01/23	Solid Modeling
	11/03/23	LAB
Week 11	11/06/23	The Procrustes Method and 3D Scanning
	11/08/23	Surface Reconstruction
	11/10/23	Computer Animation
Week 12	11/13/23	Animating Transformations
	11/15/23	Quaternions and Exponentials
	11/17/23	LAB
	11/20/23	Fall break
	11/22/23
	11/24/23
Week 13	11/27/23	Gradient-Domain Processing for Large Images
	11/29/23	Shape Matching
	12/01/23	Signal Processing: From Images to Surfaces
Week 14	12/04/23
	12/06/23	Midterm
	12/08/23	LAB

Computer Graphics (601.457/657)

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Computer Graphics
(601.457/657)