Course calendar

The course calendar below gives the lecture topics, assignment and due dates for homeworks and projects, exam dates, times of project help sessions, and observed holidays.  The calendar is subject to change during the quarter, and we will remind you as each of the due dates and help sessions comes near.

Week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

Sept. 30


Introduction


HW #0 Assigned

1

2


Displays


Choose partners

3




4

Image Processing

HW#0 due

Impressionist assigned

2

7


Image Processing


Project help session

8




Project help session

9


Affine transformations

10

11

Affine transformations
Hierarchical modeling

HW #1 assigned

3

14


Hierarchical modeling


Choose partners

15

16


Projections

17




18


Projections

Impressionist due
Modeler assigned

4

21


Hidden surfaces

Impressionist Artifact
Project help session

22




Project help session

23


Hidden surfaces

24

25

Shading

HW#1 due

5

28


Shading


Choose partners

29

30


Ray Tracing

31

 

Happy Halloween!

November 1


Ray tracing


Modeler due
Trace assigned

6

4


Advanced Ray tracing

Modeler artifact

Project help session

5




 

Project help session

6


Texture Mapping

7

8

Texture Mapping


HW#2 assigned

7

11

Veteran's Day
No Class!

12


13


Parametric curves


Choose partners

14

15


Parametric curves

8

18

Parametric curves

Trace due

Animator assigned

19




Project help session

20


Particle systems

Trace artifact due by 12pm
Project help session

21




22

Animation principles

9

25


Surfaces

26


27


Subdivision surfaces


HW#2 due

28

Thanksgiving Day

29

Thanksgiving Day


No Class!

10

December 2


Motion capture Animation

3

4


Principles of traditional animation

5

6


Advanced topics in animation

Animator Due

11

9

Physics-based computer animation

10




Animation snapshot
due at 12pm

11

In class voting!

Animation artifact due at 10am

12

13

Finals
Week




16

Final Exam
2:30-4:20 pm

17

18

19

20