BCO 511 - Computer Graphics (Spring 2012)

BCO 511 - Computer Graphics (Spring 2012)

Lectures: Wednesday 18:15-21:00

The Incredibles (Courtesy of Pixar Animation Studios)

Instructor: Erkut Erdem

e-mail: erkut-at-cs.hacettepe.edu.tr

Office: 114

Tel: 297 7500 / 149

Office hours: Friday, 13:00-15:00

Course Description:

The goal of this course is to learn essential computer graphics concepts.

Textbook:

Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Third Edition, Peter Shirley, Michael Ashikhmin, Steve Marschner, A K Peters, 2009

Reference Books:

Computer Graphics Through OpenGL: From Theory to Experiments, Sumanta Guha, CRC Press, 2011
Computer Graphics with OpenGL, 3rd Edition, Donald D. Hearn and M. Pauline Baker, Prentice Hall, 2004

Course Content

Introduction
Raster Images
Perspective
Ray Tracing
2D Geometric Transformations
3D Geometric Transformations
3D Viewing
The Graphics Pipeline
Triangle Meshes
Texture mapping
Sampling and Reconstruction
Antialiasing and Compositing
Color
Splines

Grading Policy

Attendance 5%
Project 40%
Midterm 25%
Final 30%

Resources

Project:

The students taking the course will be required to do a project in computer graphics. Students can choose to work individually or in groups of at most 3 people.

The project will consist of three phases. Each phase will be graded on a 5-point scale as per Steve Marschner's scheme in Cornell:

0: No submission
1: An attempt at a solution
2: A partially correct solution
3: A mostly correct solution
4: A correct solution
5: A particularly good solution (a correct solution that is particularly creative or insightful)

Course Schedule:


Lecture	Date	Topic	From the book	Extra material

1	15/02	Introduction, raster images [pdf]	Ch. 1, 3
2	22/02	Perspective [pdf]	Ch. 4.1-4.2,5	Linear algebra review by Jiawen Chen [pdf] OpenGL review by Kristin Siu and Eric Butler[pdf] [sample code]
3	29/02	Ray Tracing [pdf]	Ch. 4.3-4.9
4	07/03	2D/3D geometric transformations and Scene Graphs [pdf]	Ch. 6, Ch. 12.2	Ch. 1-2 from the Red Book
5	14/03	3D Viewing [pdf]	Ch. 7	Ch. 3 from the Red Book
6	21/03	The Graphics Pipeline [pdf]	Ch. 8
7	28/03	The Graphics Pipeline (cont'd) [pdf]
8	04/04	Midterm
9	11/04	Triangle meshes [pdf] and Texture mapping [pdf]	Ch. 12.1, Ch. 11
10	18/04	Sampling and reconstruction [pdf]	Ch. 9
11	25/04	Antialiasing and compositing [pdf]	Ch. 9
12	02/05	Color [pdf]	Ch. 21
13	09/05	2D spline curves [pdf]	Ch. 15
14	16/05	Project presentations

Communication:

The course webpage will be updated regularly throughout the semester with lecture notes, programming and reading assignments and important deadlines. All other communications will be carried out through Piazza. Please enroll it by following the link https://piazza.com/hacettepe.edu.tr/spring2012/bco511