Graphics Notes

Previous Lecture Schedule and Assignments
Current semester lecuture schedule will differ slightly.

• August 31, Coures information, What is Graphics, Graphics 1950-2000+
• September 2, Image Formation, Image Models.
• September 7, Opengl.
• September 9, Review of Linear Algebra, Octave.
• September 14, Programming with OpenGL, Part 2, Cross Product,
• September 16,In lieu of the transformation exercise due for this class, your can run the Octave Program and submit the anwswer the questions it poses by class on September 23.
• September 21, Programming with OpenGL,Part 3 Event Driven Programming, Callbacks.
• September 23, Interactive Programs.,makefile.
• September 28, Geometry.
• September 30, Representation, A Previous Midterm.
• October 5, Representation,
• October 7, Representation, assignment 5b, assignment 5c, assignment 5d, In place of assignment 5 do Assignment 5b with camera position P1=[1,-1,1]', pointed at [1,0,0], and up in direction of [0,0,1] in Octave
• October 12, Midterm on October 21,Chapters 1-5, Transforms
• October 14, OpenGL Transformations. Computer Viewing, Building Models
• October 19, Midterm on October 21,Chapters 1-5, Lighting.
Sample Midterm.
• October 21, Sample Midterm with answers, More Lighting, Even More Lighting, interesting tutorial withpretty pictures: //http://www.falloutsoftware.com/tutorials/gl.
• October 26, Cancelled.
• October 28,teapots.c. Buffers..
• November 2 Textures., Opengl Textures.
• November 4 Opengl Textures.
• November 9 Class Project and Take Home Final. Compositing and Blending, Shaders.
• November 16 GLSL, more GLSL, Subroutine Example, GLSL Tutorial.
• November 18, Extra Credit Problem.
• November 23 Program Building and Debugging Clinic.
• November 25 Thanksgiving.
• December 2 class cancelled. Sump Pump died.
• December 7, Project Demo Preparation. Presentation should include
  1. Working demo of projects.
  2. A 15 minute presentation describing how the program works and the OpenGL functions used.
  3. Before the class on December 17, hand in your presentation slides and the source code for the program.
  Program Building and Debugging Clinic.
• December 9, Program Building and Debugging Clinic.
• December 17, Programming Project Demos: 7:45-10:00 a.m.