CS559 - Computer Graphics

Tentative Syllabus

• Light and the human visual system
• Color
• Images, quantization and sampling
• Image manipulations
• Raster graphics
• Coordinate systems and transformations
• The graphics pipeline and toolkits
• Viewing coordinate systems
• Clipping
• Hidden surface removal
• Introduction to Visibility
• Local shading models
• Modeling with polygons
• Hierachical modeling techniques
• Paramteric Curves
• Parametric Surfaces
• Subdivision surfaces
• Raytracing
• Global shading
• Animation