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CSE 457: Introduction to Computer Graphics

Autumn 2022

This class meets twice a week (TTh 8:30am — 9:50am CSE2 G10) with occasional help sessions for projects and homework. View the syllabus for more details.

Calendar

Tentative schedule for the class. All assignments are due at 11pm on the specified date.

Lecture Material

Week 1

Sep 29: Overview & Affine Transformations 1; P1 out

Week 2

Oct 4: Affine Transformations 2, Hierarchical Modeling 1 [video 1] [video2] [slide 1] [slide 2]
Oct 6: Hierarchical Modeling 2, Meshes [video 1] [video2]

Week 3

Oct 11: Image Processing 1 [video 1] [video 2] [video 3] [slides1]; HW1 out
Oct 12: P1 Due P2 out
Oct 13: Image Processing 2, Projection [video 1] [video 2] [video 3] [slides1]

Week 4

Oct 18: Shading [video 1] [video 2] [slides1]; HW1 Due
Oct 20: Ray Tracing 1 [video 1] [video 2] [video 3]

Week 5

Oct 25: Ray tracing 2 [slides1]; P2 due P3 released HW1 released
Oct 27: Accelerated ray tracing [slides1]

Week 6

Nov 1: Textures [slides1]; HW2 due
Nov 3: Splines 1 [video 1] [video 2] [video 3] [slides1]

Week 7

Nov 8: Splines 2, Particle Systems 1 [slides1] [slides2]; P3 due
Nov 10: Particle Systems 2 [slides1]; P4 released

Week 8

Nov 15: Particle Systems 2, Rigid Body Simulation 1 [slides1] [slides2]; HW3 out
Nov 17: Rigid Body Simulation 2 [slides1]

Week 9

Nov 22 :

Nov 23: HW3 Due
Nov 24: Thanksgiving

Week 10

Nov 29: HW4 out

Dec 1 :

Week 11

Dec 6: HW4 due
Dec 8: P4 due

Finals week

Dec 13
Dec 15