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

October 1

 

Introduction

Image processing

 

 

HW#0 assigned

2

3

 

Image processing

 

 

 

Choose partners

4

 

 

 

5

 

Color

HW#0 due

Impressionist assigned

2

8

 

Display devices

 

 

Project help session

9

 

 

 

 

Project help session

10

 

Affine transformations

 

11

12

 

Affine transformations

Hierarchical modeling

 

HW#1 assigned

3

15

 

Hierarchical modeling

 

Choose partners

16

 

17

 

Projections

 

18

 

19

 

Projections

 

 

Impressionist due

Modeler assigned

4

22

 

Hidden surfaces

 

 

Impressionist artifact 

Project help session

23

 

 

 

 

Project help session

24

Hidden surfaces

25

26

 

Shading

 

 

HW#1 due

5

29

 

Shading

 

Choose partners

30

31

 

Ray tracing

November 1

 

2

 

Anti-aliased and distribution ray tracing

 

Modeler due

Trace assigned

6

5

 

Anti-aliased and distribution ray tracing

 

Modeler artifact

Project help session

6

 

 

Project help session

7

 

Texture mapping

8

9

 

Parametric curves

 

 

HW#2 assigned

7

12

 

Veteran's day

No Class!

13

 

 

 

 

14

 

Parametric curves

 

Choose partners

15

 

16

 

Parametric curves

8

19

 

Particle systems

 

Trace due

Animator assigned

Project help session

20

 

 

 

 

Project help session

21

Computer animation

 

 

Trace artifact due by 12pm

22

 

Thanksgiving

23

 

Thanksgiving

No Class!

9

26

 

Rigid body simulation

 

27

 

28

 

Motion capture

 

 

HW#2 due

29

30

 

Modeling dynamics of animated characters

10

December 3

Parametric surfaces

 

 

4

5

 

Subdivision Surfaces

6

 

7

 

Subdivision Surfaces

 

 

Animator due

11

10

 

Principles of traditional animation

11

 

 

 

Animation snapshot
due at 12pm

12

 

In class voting!

 

Animation artifact due at 10am

13

14

Finals

week

17

Final

2:30-4:20

18

19

20

21