Introduction to Computer Graphics
Spring Quarter 2001

 

Course calendar

The course calendar below gives the lecture topics, assignment and due dates for homeworks and projects, exam dates, and times of project help sessions.  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

March  26

 

Introduction

Image processing

 

 

 

HW#0 assigned

27

28

 

Image processing

 

 

 

 

 

29

 

 

 

 

 

 

30

 

Color

 

 

Choose partners

HW#0 due

Impressionist assigned

2

April 2

 

Color

Display hardware

 

 

 

Project help session

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project help session

4

 

Display hardware

 

 

 

5

6

 

Graphics programming

Affine transformations

 

 

 

 

HW#1 assigned

3

9

 

Affine transformations

 

 

 

 

Choose partners

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

 

Hierarchical modeling

12

 

 

 

 

 

13

 

Hierarchical modeling

Projections

 

 

Impressionist due

Modeler assigned

4

16

 

Projections

 

 

 

Impressionist artifact 

Project help session

17

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project help session

18

 

Hidden surfaces

 

19

20

 

Hidden surfaces

 

 

 

 

HW#1 due

5

23

 

Shading

 

 

 

 

Choose partners

24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25

 

Shading

 

 

 

 

26

 

 

 

 

 

27

 

Ray tracing

 

 

 

Modeler due

Trace assigned

6

30

 

Anti-aliased and distribution ray tracing

 

 

 

Modeler artifact

Project help session

May 1

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

Texture mapping

 

 

 

 

Project help session

3

4

 

Parametric curves

 

 

 

 

HW#2 assigned

7

7

 

Parametric curves

 

 

 

 

Choose partners

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

Computer animation

 

 

 

10

 

 

 

 

 

11

 

Particle systems

 

 

 

Trace due

Animator assigned

8

14

 

Rigid body simulation

 

 

 

Project help session 

3:30pm

15

 

 

 

 

 

Trace artifact due by 12pm

16

 

Motion capture

 

 

 

 

 

17

18

 

Modeling dynamics of animated characters

 

 

 

9

21

 

Parametric surfaces

 

 

 

HW#2 due 

Project help session 

3:30pm

22

 

 

 

 

 

 

23

 

Parametric surfaces

Subdivision Surfaces

 

 

 

24

 

 

25

 

Subdivision Surfaces

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

28

 

Memorial Day (observed)
No Class!!

 

 

 

 

29

 

Animator due by 10am

 

 

 

 

30

 

Principles of traditional animation

 

 

 

 

31

 

Animation snapshot
due at 12pm

 

 

 

June 1

 

In class voting!

 

 

 

Animation artifact due at 10am

Finals

week

4

 

 

 

 

5

 

 

Final

2:30-4:20

 

 

6

 

7

 

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

Comments to Wilmot Wei-mau Lee Last modified: Tuesday, 27-Mar-2001 13:38:22 PST