Computer Graphics
CS 4451, Spring 2005

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How to submit your homework: Create a .zip or .rar file of your whole project including the workspaces. Please don't send  the debug/release folders, or any library files that we already have, glut for example. Name this file "p{project number}_{your name}.zip", where {your name} is your full name without spaces. For example, Chris Wojtan would create "p1_ChrisWojtan.zip" for his homework 1. Submit your assignment to wojtan@cc.gatech.edu. Please put "cs4451b: prog1" in the subject line so we can find your homework quickly.

Class Sessions
MWF, 2:05pm - 2:55pm
CoC Room 101

Instructor Greg Turk turk at cc.gatech.edu TSRB 219 (404) 894-7508

Teaching Assistant Chris Wojtan wojtan at cc.gatech.edu Office hours: Tuesday 2:00-3:00pm, Friday 3:00-4:00pm Open area between rooms 217 and 218 in TSRB (by the big comfy couch)

Required Textbook
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics by Peter Shirley

Grading
Programming assignments: 70% (divided evenly among the five programs)
Midterm exams (two): 14% (7% each)
Final exam: 16%

Programming Projects
Computer graphics is learned best by doing. Each student will complete five programming projects, to be written in C or C++ on a Windows platform. Students may talk with one another about any of the concepts required for the programming projects, but each student must perform the actual programming of this assignment on their own. Students must write all of the code for each assignment themselves without any form of code sharing by electronic, written, verbal or any other means. The only code from others that may be used in these assignments are those that are given by the instructor. Note that it is impossible to get a good grade in this course without completing all five programming assignments.

Late Policy
The grade on a late assignment will drop 5% for each day beyond the due date. A day ends at midnight (specifically 11:59pm). No late assignments will be accepted four days or later after the date that the assignment was due.

Assignments

• Project 1: Transformations and Projection       - Due Friday, February 4, 2005, 11:59pm
• Project 2: OpenGL Animation - Due Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 11:59pm
• Project 3: Ray_Tracing - Due  Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 11:59pm
• Project 4: GPU programming - Due Friday, April 8, 2005, 11:59pm
• Project 5: Subdivision Surfaces                       - Due Friday, April 29, 2005, 11:59pm

  Required Reading - First Test covers everything up to and including "Chapter 16: Radiometry"

  71-74: Matrices

  85-90: 2D Transformations

  91-96: Composition of Transformations

  97-107: 3D Transformations & Windowing

  109-125: Projection

  29-30,33-35,36-37: Line Equations

  55-65: Line & Polygon Rasterization

  127-138: Hidden Surfaces

  Chapter 16: Radiometry

  Chapter 17: Human Vision

  301-309: Color

  Chapter 8: Surface Shading

  Chapter 9: Ray Tracing

  206-207: Shadow Maps

  198-206: 2D Texture Maps

  231-236: Bezier Curves

  Useful Graphics Links

  OpenGL resources.
  Links to many OpenGL sites.

  OpenGL Programming Guide:

          http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/ or

          http://rush3d.com/reference/opengl-redbook-1.1/

  OpenGL Reference Manual:

          http://rush3d.com/reference/opengl-bluebook-1.0/
  
  Real-time rendering resources.
  Information about programming in Cg.
  
  On-line graphics resources from ACM TOG.
  Pointers to many graphics links.
  Research labs in computer graphics.
  
  On-line SIGGRAPH papers for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
  Videos of SIGGRAPH presentations for 2001 and 2002.
  List of all sorts of graphics publications (including earlier SIGGRAPH).
  
  Archive of RenderMan documentation.
  The RenderMan repository.
  
  The POVRAY site.
  The Rayshade public-domain ray tracer.
  Archive of issues of the Ray Tracing News.
  
  Huge list of non-photorealistic rendering resources.
   

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  Last Updated: 2/15/2005