COSC455 - Computer Graphics

Lecturer:

Geoff Wyvill

Lectures:

Mondays 9:00am - 11:00am
523 Castle Street, Back of Lab

Topics List for 2010 -- Tentative

Semester 1: 11 Sessions

Week Date Topic Notes
1 01 Mar
Animation: Basic principles and "Disney" techniques
 
2 08 Mar
Animation: Dynamics, Kinematics, Inverse Dynamics, Inverse Kinematics

3 15 Mar Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)  
4 22 Mar Maths for computer graphics -- Intro and B-spline problem  
5
29 Mar Antialiasing and Filtering  

05 Apr
 Mid Semester Break  
6
12 Apr Texture mapping, solid textures, functional textures  
7
19 Apr
Noise  

26 Apr Particle systems  
9 03 May
Fractals       Assignment 1 due!
 
10 10 May L-systems  
11 17 May Implicit surfaces (Soft Objects)  
12
24 May TBA

13
30 May TBA

Semester 2: 7 Sessions minimum

If you would like any of the following topics to be changed let Geoff know before the end of the Semester 1.

Week Date Topic Notes
1 12 Jul No lectures this week  
2 19 Jul Radiosity notes      Assignment 2 due! slides
3 26 Jul SIGGRAPH Conference - Geoff Away  slides
4 02 Aug
Illumination: local and surface  
5 09 Aug Photon mapping pdf1 pdf2 pdf3 slides  
6 16 Aug Image-based rendering notes
7 24 Aug Non-photorealistic rendering. Notes: saito, meier, kalnins,
salisbury, buchanan, curtis, kowalski, winkenbach.
slides

30 Aug Mid Semester Break  
8 06 Sep

9 13 Sep Animation tutorial
10 20 Sep
 
11 27 Sep Animation tutorial
12 04 Oct
No lecture - work on animation  
13 11 Oct Review     Assignment 3 due!  

Other Possible Topics

Assignments:

1 is ready. 2 and 3 are old ones but this year's will be similar:

Links:

Mirage - raytracer

Text:

None prescribed - read your handouts!