CS488/688: Introduction to Computer Graphics

Information for Fall 2018

Instructor:

Stephen Mann; DC2106, Office Hours: T 10:00-11:00.

Teaching Assistants:

Mark Iwanchyshyn; MC 3007, Office Hours: Wed 2-3.
Petri Varsa; MC 3007, Office Hours: Wed 11-12.
Wenhan (Cosmos) Zhu; MC 3007, Office Hours: Wed 4-5.

Standard TA Office Hours:

(see above).

Extra Office Hours Associated with Assignment Deadlines:

Fri Nov 2 1-2 (Steve); Fri Nov 2 2-3 (Mark); Mon Nov 5 10-11 (Petri); Mon Nov 5 11-12 (Cosmos); Mon Nov 5 1-2 (Steve).

Lecture Room and Times:

RCH 308, TTh 8:30-9:50.

Lab Room:

MC3007

Course Data Directory:

/u/gr/cs488

Texts:

Required:

• CS488/688 Lecture Notes, hardcopy available at DC Library Graphics.
• Hearn, Baker and Carithers, Computer Graphics with Open GL , Prentice Hall.

Optional, but useful:

• Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner , Morgan Kaufmann.
• Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, Mason Woo, OpenGL Architecture Review Board, OpenGL Programming Guide, Addison Wesley (and Silicon Graphics), (Available online on the SGI machines).
• Watt and Policarpo, 3D Games, Addison Wesley, 2001. (on reserve at the Dana Porter Library)

Important Dates and Assignment Deadlines:

Code must not be timestamped later than 8:00 AM on the due date.
Documentation may be submitted in the first five minutes of either section.

Assignment 0:

Tuesday, September 18th [Week 2]

Assignment 1:

Thursday, September 27th [Week 3]

Assignment 2:

Thursday, October 11th [Week 5]

Assignment 3:

Thursday, October 25th [Week 7]

Midterm:

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Assignment 5a (proposal):

Tuesday, November 6th [Week 9]

Assignment 4:

Thursday, November 8th [Week 9]

Assignment 5b (corrected proposal):

Thursday, November 15th [Week 10]

Assignment 5c (project):

Monday, December 3rd [Week 13]

Project Demonstrations:

TBA

Final:

Tuesday, December 11th, 9AM-11:30AM. MC 4045

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