Course Calendar

Here is a rough estimate of how the class will proceed.

Week

Date

Lecture Topic

Milestone

1

Oct 5

Introduction, displays, image processing

Impressionist project assigned
 

2

Oct 12

Affine transformations, hierarchical modeling, projections

 

3

Oct 19

Projections, hidden surface removal

Impressionist due before class
Impressionist artifact due Thursday
Modeler project assigned

4

Oct 26

Shading, ray tracing

Homework #1 assigned

5

Nov 2

Ray tracing, help session

Modeler project due before class
Modeler artifact due Thursday

Trace project assigned

6

Nov 9

Anti-aliased, accelerated, and distribution ray tracing, texture mapping

Homework #1 due

7

Nov 16

Parametric curves, particle systems

Trace project due before class
Trace artifact due Thursday
Animator project assigned

8

Nov 23

Parametric curves and surfaces, subdivision curves and surfaces, animation principles

Homework #2 assigned

9

Nov 30

Special topics

Animator project due on Dec 3

10

Dec 7

Homework #2 due

11

Dec 16

Final animations due by 10am