CS488/688: Introduction to Computer Graphics

Information for Fall 2017

Please see the CS488/688 home page for additional information that does not normally change from term to term.

Instructor:

Stephen Mann; DC2106, Office Hours: TBA.

Teaching Assistants:

Stephen Askew; MC 3007, Office Hours: TBA.
Xiang Fang; DC 2303, Office Hours: TBA.
Petri Varsa; MC 3007, Office Hours: TBA.

Standard TA Office Hours:

(see above).

Extra Office Hours Associated with Assignment Deadlines:

.

Lecture Room and Times:

MC4040, TTh 11:30-12:50.

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 11:00 on the due date.
Documentation may be submitted in the first five minutes of either section.

Assignment 0:

Thuesday, September 19th [Week 2]

Assignment 1:

Thursday, September 28th [Week 3]

Assignment 2:

Thursday, October 12th [Week 5]

Assignment 3:

Thursday, October 26th [Week 7]

Midterm:

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Assignment 5a (proposal):

Tuesday, November 7th [Week 9]

Assignment 4:

Tuesday, November 11th [Week 9]

Assignment 5b (corrected proposal):

Thursday, November 16th [Week 10]

Assignment 5c (project):

Monday, December 4th [Week 13]

Project Demonstrations:

TBA [Week 13]

Final:

TBA

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