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 24

 

 

25

26

Introduction

Displays

 

27

28

2

Oct 1

Image Processing

Choose partners for Impressionist

2

3

Affine Transformations

Impressionist Assigned

4

 

5

3

8

Hierarchical Modeling

Projections

 

9

 

 

10

Projections

 

11

12

4

15

Projections

Hidden Surfaces

16

Impressionist Due

Settle on partners for Modeler

17

Shading

Modeler Assigned

18

19

Impressionist Artifact Due

 

5

22

Shading

Ray Tracing

 HW #1 assigned

23

 

 

24

Ray Tracing

 

 

25

26

 

6

29

Ray Tracing

Anti-aliasing and Acceleration

30

Modeler Due

Settle on partners for Trace

31

Anti-aliasing and Acceleration

Distribution Ray Tracing

Trace Assigned

Nov 1

2

Modeler Artifact Due

7

5

Texture Mapping

Parametric Curves

 HW#1 Due

6

 

 

7

Parametric Curves

HW #2 assigned

 

8

9

 

8

12

Veterans Day

13

Trace Due

Settle on partners for Animator

14

Parametric Curves

Particle Systems

Animator Assigned

15

16

Trace Artifact Due

9

19

Particle Systems

Parametric surfaces

 

20

 

 

 

21

Principles of Traditional Animation

HW#2 Due

22

Thanksgiving

23

Thanksgiving

10

26

Advanced topics in computer animation

27

28

Parametric surfaces

Subdivision curves and surfaces

29

30

11

Dec 3

Data-driven Character Animation

Animator Due

4

 

5

Physics-Based Character Animation

6

Animation Artifact Due at 9am

7

Finals week

10

11

Final 2:30pm-4:20pm

12

13

14