Computer Graphics
(601.457/657)

General Information Textbooks Coursework Submissions Course Outline Syllabus

General Information

Professor
- Misha Kazhdan (webpage, e-mail)
  - Office Hours: Wednesdays 1-3 @ Malone 229
Course Assistant Office Hours
- Alexander Do: Thursdays 12:50-1:50 @ Malone 216
Contacting Each Other
- Piazza
Time and Location
- MWF 11:00-11:50 @ Hodson 311
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: 10/14/26
- Exam 2: 12/09/26
Assignments (60%)
- Assignment #1: Image Processing (Due 9/19/26 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #2: Ray Tracing (Due 10/17/26 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #3: OpenGL Rendering (Due 11/21/26 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #4: Keyframe Animation (Due TBF @ 11:59pm)
Class Participation (10%)

Submissions

Assignments should be submitted via Gradescope in Canvas:
- Assignments are required to compile in Gradescope autograders. It is your responsibility to make sure your submission compiles on Gradescope. Submissions that does not meet this requirement will receive a 50% deduction on the final result when we regrade manually.
  The Gradescope autograder is nested in Ubuntu. We recommend trying to submit early to see if the compilation passes. If you have questions you can reach out on piazza.
- For each assignment you will need to submit the code, a write-up, and an art contest submission folder if you participate in the art contest. Each assignment will specify it's format. Please check detailed information for each assignment. Please carefully review the submission details for each assignment before submitting.
- Submission to the regular submission should include a write-up named <jhed-id>.pdf (.pdf format is recommended, but you can also use .html or other text formats) describing what was implemented and optionally the 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. This can be a single sentence for each functionality. If there are things that you would like to note about your code, please note them here. Optionally you can include your results for each functionality. When the implementation is partially correct/working, this can help you to get partial grades back.
- If you are submitting the art contest, briefly describe what you did in the write-up. 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. For some submissions we only accept *.todo.* files and remember to make sure your submission compiles on Gradescope.

Course Outline

	Date	Subject	Related Reading	Video
Week 1	08/31/26	Intro	Syllabus
	09/02/26	Image Processing		video
	09/04/26	Image Filtering, Warping, and Morphing	[Beier and Neely, '92], Black and White, Plymouth Voyager	video
Week 2	09/07/26	Class Cancelled: University Holiday
	09/09/26	Image Sampling		video
	09/11/26	LAB
Week 3	09/14/26	3D Rendering and Ray Casting		video
	09/16/26	Accelerated Ray Casting		video
	09/18/26	Direct Illumination		video
Week 4	09/21/26	Class Cancelled: Yom Kippur
	09/23/26	Indirect Illumination		video
	09/25/26	Modeling Transformations		video
Week 5	09/28/26	Scene Graphs and Barycentric Coordinates		video
	09/30/26	Functors etc. in C++ and Assignment 2		video
	10/02/26	3D Polygon Rendering Pipeline		video
Week 6	10/05/26	Scan Conversion		video
	10/07/26	Texture Mapping		video
	10/09/26	LAB
Week 7	10/12/26	Texture Synthesis	[Perlin, '85], [Efros and Leung, '99], [Efros and Freeman, '01], [Cohen et al., '03]	video
	10/14/26	MIDTERM
	10/16/26	Radiosity		video-
Week 8	10/19/26	3D Object Represenation; (Loop) Subdivision Surfaces	Zorin and Schröder (2000)
	10/21/26	Representing Meshes; Parametric Curves	Baumgart (1975)
	10/23/26	Class Cancelled: Fall Break
Week 9	10/26/26	Parametric Curves		video
	10/28/26	Parametric Surfaces	[Fowler et al., '92]	video
	10/30/26	OpenGL Review		video
Week 10	11/02/26	Modeling		video
	11/04/26	Solid Modeling	[Blinn, '82] [Lorensen and Cline, '87]	video
	11/06/26	LAB
Week 11	11/09/26
	11/11/26
	11/13/26
Week 12	11/16/26
	11/18/26
	11/20/26
Week 13	11/30/26
	12/02/26
	12/04/26
Week 14	12/07/26
	12/09/26	MIDTERM
	12/11/26

Computer Graphics (601.457/657)

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Textbooks

Coursework

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Course Outline

Computer Graphics
(601.457/657)