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CS559: Computer Graphics

Spring 2001


Instructor: Stephen Chenney

Email: schenney@cs.wisc.edu
Office: 6387 Computer Sciences and Statistics
Office Hours: Tu 1-2, Th 11-12

TA: Rajarathinam Arangarasan

Email: arangara@cs.wisc.edu
Location: 3310 Computer Sciences and Statistics
Office Hours: MW 2-3


Project 3 Web Page


Calendar

Many of the lecture notes are missing pictures due to copyright constraints.
Exam
  • Wednesday May 16, 10:00am
  • Room 1325, Comp Sci & Stat
  • 2 hours long.
  • You are allowed to take in 1 double sided sheet with anything you like written on it. No electronic devices of any sort.
  • What you should know. It's a long list, but very detailed.
  • Note the slightly modified grading breakdown at the bottom of this page.
May 8
  • Animation
  • Lecture notes
  • Homework 7 due. Solutions: pdf. ps. For some reason when I print the pdf version it does not print the minus signs.
May 10
  • Review. Think about questions before you come to class.
  • Homework 8 will not be graded but does have some more sample exam questions. Make sure you know how to do them. Solutions: pdf. ps.
May 1 May 3
  • Global Illumination Basics
  • Lecture notes Many of the images are from the CD in the back of the book, and are not reproduced in the slides. They are referenced so you can look at them yourselves.
April 24
  • Subdivision: Tesselating a sphere, Fractal terrain, Subdivision surfaces
  • Lecture notes
  • Sphere subdivision code. Hint: It can be modified for the fractal terrain for project 3, but it still requires some work.
  • Homework 6 due. Solutions
April 26
April 17 April 19
  • Class is in Psych 115. It's one the ground floor, and really easy to find if you enter by the doors near the CS bulding on Johnson St (in the 1 story piece of the building).
  • Tensor product spline surfaces
  • Lecture notes
  • Project 3 goes out. Due 5pm May 11.
April 10
  • Implicit Surfaces
  • Production Rules for Modeling
  • Splines: Hermite and Bezier
  • Lecture notes
  • Homework 5 due. Solutions
April 12
April 3 April 5
Mar 27 Mar 29
Mar 20 Mar 22
Mar 6 Mar 8
Feb 27
  • Perspective Projection
  • Polygon Clipping
  • Lecture notes
  • Reading: Watt Sections 5.2 and 6.1, OpenGL Chapter 3
Mar 1
  • Clipping
  • Lecture notes
  • Reading: Watt Sections 1.4.3 and 1.4.4, Section 6.1
Feb 20 Feb 22
Feb 13 Feb 15
Feb 6 Feb 8
  • Image sampling and reconstruction.
  • Lecture notes
  • I used Pat Hanrahan's notes from Stanford in preparing this lecture. They are your primary reference for this material.
  • The textbook covers this material in Chapter 14. Note that figure 14.8 is missing some parts, and that section 14.8 is not required reading.
  • Homework 2 goes out. Due Feb 20.
Jan 30
  • Color spaces.
  • Watt, Chapter 15, covers color. In particular, it includes a description of monitor considerations that you should read. Ignore the stuff about rendering and color -- we'll come back to that later.
  • Lecture notes
  • RGB Color Cube Program Code
  • HSV Cone Program Code As an interesting experiment, run the program with different monitors and look at the changes.
Feb 1
Jan 23
  • Introduction to Computer Graphics and CS 559
  • Programming Assignment 1 Even if you don't plan on using FLTK, read the assignment page.
  • If you are unsure about vectors, look at Watt section 1.3. We will cover the rest of Watt's chapter 1 later in the semester.
  • Lecture notes
Jan 25
  • Imaging, light, color and the human visual system.
  • Homework 1. Due Feb 6 at the start of class, in class.
  • Lecture notes


Programming Resources


General Course Information

This course is about using computers to produce and manipulate images. Broadly speaking, it will focus on two-dimensional image manipulation and three-dimensional computer graphics (modeling scenes in 3D and producing images of them).
Last modified: Thu Mar 8 14:12:04 CST 2001