Schedule
Lecture schedule is subject to change. Slides will be published here before the start of each lecture. Until then, the links below will be broken links.
| Tuesday | Thursday | Homework (Due Date) Sections (Friday) |
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| Week 1 | 9/23 | Introduction | 9/25 | Working with Light | Blender Setup (Mon 9/29) |
| Week 2 | 9/30 | Virtual World | 10/2 | Triangles | Triangles & Transformations (Mon 10/6) |
| Week 3 | 10/7 | Ray Tracing | 10/9 | Recursive Ray Tracing | Ray Tracing (Mon 10/13) |
| Week 4 | 10/14 | Optics | 10/16 | Shaders | Lighting & Shading (Mon 10/20) |
| Week 5 | 10/21 | Global Illumination | 10/23 | Photon Mapping | Global Illumination (Mon 10/27) |
| Week 6 | 10/28 | Sampling | 10/30 | Advanced Rendering | Advanced Rendering (Mon 11/3) |
| Week 7 | 11/4 | (Democracy Day) | 11/6 | Final Project Kickoff | Project Proposal (Mon 11/10) |
| Week 8 | 11/11 | Geometric Modeling | 11/13 | More Geometric Modeling | HW: Geometric Modeling (Mon 11/17) Section: Geometry Demo (11/14) (see Canvas for actual demo recording) |
| Week 9 | 11/18 | Texture Mapping | 11/20 | More Texture Mapping | HW: Texturing (Mon 12/1) Section: Texturing Demo (11/21) (see Canvas for actual demo recording) |
| Week 10 | 11/25 | (Thanksgiving) | 11/27 | (Thanksgiving) | |
| Week 11 | 12/2 | (Work on Project) | 12/4 | (Work on Project) | Section: Lighting & Camera Demo (12/5) (see Canvas for actual demo recording) |
| Week 12 | NO FINAL EXAM | Final Project (THU 12/11) |
Supplemental Readings and Reference Materials
Required:- Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, 4th Edition (5th Edition is the most recent)
Steve Marschner and Peter Shirley, A K Peters/CRC Press, 2015.
Errata for 3rd Edition