Department of Computer Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

CS480: Computer Graphics (Spring 2008)

Instructor: Sung-eui Yoon

When and where: 3:00pm ~ 4:15pm on WF, 3rd class room (2443)

First class: 3:00pm on Feb-11 (Mon)( (please come to first class for more information )

Office Hours: 4:30pm ~ 5:00pm on Wed/Fri or by appointment

TA: NaeJin Kong (office hour: 3:10pm - 4:00pm on M) and TaeJoon Kim (office hour: 4:00pm - 5:00pm on Th)

Noah board: CS480 Computer Graphics

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of linear algebra

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

Textbook:	Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, 1st or 2nd Edition, P. Shirley et al., AK Peters Errata is available at the link. First edition is available at the KAIST book store.

Language in class: We will use English, but I'll offer the first three classes in Korean. I'll also give English-version classes of those three classes to whom are not good at Korean.

Grade policy:

Mid and final exams: 20% and 30%

Assignments: 40%

Final project: ??

Class participation: 10%

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)

# of lecture, date	Topics and slides	Update time and notice
1, Feb-11 (Mon)	Overview on the course and course policy	1st update on Feb-10
Feb-13 (Wed)	No class due to conf. (HCI) attendance
2, Feb-15 (Fri)	Screen and World Spaces	Julia.cpp
3, Feb-20 (Wed)	2D Imaging and Transformation	ImagePlay.cpp, KAIST.ppm
4, Feb-22 (Fri)	3D Transformation
5, Feb-27 (Wed) 6. Feb-29 (Fri)	Modeling Transformations
7, Mar-5 (Wed) 8. Mar-7 (Fri)	Viewing Transformations
9. Mar-12 (Wed) 10. Mar-14 (Fri)	Interaction with 3D models	Luxo lamp code, Trackball codes Assignment1: specification and skeleton codes
11, Mar-19 (Wed) 12, Mar-21 (Fri)	Clipping and Culling	2nd update at Mar-19
13, Mar-26 (Wed) 14, Mar-28 (Fri)	Rasterization	Sample questions for mid-term exam
Apr-2 (Wed) Apr-4 (Fri)	Mid-term week (Our mid-term exam: 3:30pm ~ 5:30pm on Apr-2 (Wed)
15, Apr-7 (Mon)	Review and PA2	Spec. of PA2 Skeleton codes of PA2 ppt of PA2
Apr-11 (Fri)	No class
16, Apr-16 (Wed) 17, Apr-18 (Fri)	Illumination and Shading
18, Apr-23 (Wed) 19, Apr-25 (Fri)	Texture Mapping
20, Apr-28 (Mon)	Visibility
Apr-30 (Wed)	No class due to an invited talk at POSTECH
21, May-2 (Fri) 22, May-7 (Wed)	Ray Tracing	Spec. of PA3,Skeleton codes, and PA3_slides.pdf
23, May-9 (Fri) 24, May-14 (Wed)	Curves and Surfaces
25, May-16 (Fri)	Wrap-up
May-21 (Wed) Apr-23 (Fri)	No class due to conf. (ICRA) attendance
May-28 (Wed)	Final exam, 3:00pm ~ 5:00pm

Additional reference materials and links

OpenGL:

OpenGL.org: Has various documentation for OpenGL

OpenGL programming guide, Ver 1.1

OpenGL reference book

MSDN: A good reference for OpenGL functions

GLUT library for Win32

GLEW: OpenGL Extension Wrangler

GLUI: Simple OpenGL GUI library

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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