School of Computing

CS380: Computer Graphics (Spring 2024)

Instructor: Sung-eui Yoon

When and where: 14:30 ~ 16:00 on Mon and Wed (Online).

Office Hours: right after class time or by appointment

Note: Due to the class size, this course is primarily conducted online via YouTube or Zoom.

         * 2 or more lectures about OpenGL will be given by TAs at the practice class

Class Q&A

Previous Moodle or Noah boards: Spring 2014, Spring 2012

Language in the board: The official language is English. If you want to use Korean, you can use it, but please also provide English-version of your questions.

Additional Materials: Intro. to Computer Graphics, Shaders using OpenGL, Modern OpenGL Programming (Link, this link is only available for accessing from IP address 143.248.*.*)

Student information: Take the survey

Your activities (HWs, Quiz, etc): Slide

Question Page: Question submission form

Paper Summary Page: Paper summary submission form

Student Lecture and Paper Presentation Directions: direction document

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of linear algebra

Basic programming skill, preferrably with C-like language (e.g., C, C++)

Textbook:	Rendering, 1st edition, Sung-eui Yoon

Language in class: We will use English, but I'll use Korean if necessary.

Outline

Course overview

Lectures and tentative schedule

Additional reference materials

Course overview

Fig. 1, Photo-realistic image generated by ray tracing method. (Image excerpted from PovRay homepage)

In this course we will discuss various topics to create 2D images computationally generated from three dimensional model representations. Particularly, we will focus on the following topic:

Transformations and projections

Interaction

Rasterization

Hidden surface removal

Lighting, shadow, and shading

Model represetations (triangle meshes, curves, and surfaces)

Texture mapping

Ray tracing

Global illumination

Graphics hardware

What you will get at the end of the course:

Broad understanding on various topics related to computer graphics, geometric problems, and visualization

Programming skill and mathematical tools related to computer graphics and geometric problems.

Lecture schedule (subject to change)

Youtube list

Demos & References(.exe)

Trackball Demo

# of lecture, date	Topics and slides	Notice
Feb - 26 (Mon.)	Lecture 1: Overview on the course and course policy
Feb - 28 (Wed.)	Lecture 2: Screen Space & World Space	PA1 Skeleton Code PA1 Spec. PA1 Reference EXE file *Below is a supplementary video for PA1 Basic OpenGL Structure: Video | Slide
Mar - 4 (Mon.)	Lecture 3: 2D Transformation and Buffers
Mar - 6 (Wed.)	Lecture 4: 3D Transformation Zoom Q&A Session (2:30pm)	*All of you are required to join zoom to have an attendance check.
Mar - 11 (Mon.)	Lecture 5: Modeling Transformation	PA2
Mar - 13 (Wed.)	Lecture 6: Viewing Transformation Lecture 7: Interacting with a 3D World	PA3 *PA3 is optional. TA assistance for PA3 is not available.
Mar - 18 (Mon.)	Lecture 8: Clipping and Culling
Mar - 20 (Wed.)	Zoom Session (2:30pm) Basic topics keywords Talk Guideline	*All of you are required to join zoom to have an attendance check. *Check out the two attached files (basic topic keywords, and talk guidelines) discussed during the Zoom session.
Mar - 25 (Mon.)	Lecture 9: Triangle Rasterization
Mar - 27 (Wed.)	Lecture 10: Illumination
Apr - 01 (Mon.)	Lecture 11: Illumination and Shading
Apr - 03 (Wed.)	Lecture 12: Texture Mapping
Apr - 08 (Mon.)	Lecture 13: Applications of Texture Mapping Zoom Session (2:30pm)	*No attendance check for this zoom session
Apr - 10 (Wed.)
Apr - 15 (Mon.)
Apr - 17 (Wed.)
Apr - 22 (Mon.)	Lecture 14: Ray Tracing
Apr - 24 (Wed.)	Lecture 15: Rendering Equation
Apr - 29 (Mon.)	Lecture 16: Monte Carlo Ray Tracing
May - 01 (Wed.)	TA Talk 1. Neural Radiance Fields	Presenter: Youngju Na (TA)
May - 6 (Mon.)
May - 8 (Wed.)	TA Talk2: Recent Advances in Rendering	Presenter: KyuBeom Han (TA)
May - 13 (Mon.)
May - 15 (Wed.)	TA Talk3: Diffusion Models	Presenter: Jumin Lee (TA)
May - 20 (Mon.)
May - 22 (Wed.)

Additional reference materials and links

CS380 homepage at spring of 2020
CS380 homepage at spring of 2017
CS380 homepage at spring of 2014
CS380 homepage at spring of 2012
CS380 homepage at spring of 2011

OpenGL:

Opengl-tutorial: Step by step OpenGL tutorial for OpenGL 3.3 and later

OpenGL.org: Has various documentation for OpenGL

OpenGL programming guide (the red book), Ver 1.1 or another site

OpenGL reference book (the blue book)

MSDN: A good reference for OpenGL functions

GLUT library for Win32

GLEW: OpenGL Extension Wrangler

GLUI: Simple OpenGL GUI Library

NeHe Productions: OpenGL Tutorials

Anton's OpenGL: OpenGL Tutorials(for OpenGL 4.x)

Useful information about computer graphics:

Real-time rendering resources

Paper search:

Google scholar

Tim Rowley's graphics paper collections

Ke-Sen Huang's graphics paper collections

Acknowledgements: The course materials are built upon previous efforts of whom organized computer graphics courses at Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I'd like to thank all of them, particularly, Brandon LLoyd. Thanks!

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