Computer Graphics Lab

Office Hour	13:20~16:20, wednesday or By appointment

Lectures

Week	Content	Notes	Assignment
01	Course introduction Image color and cameras Color and light File format and compression	[Lecture 01] [Lecture 02] [Lecture 03] [Lecture 04]	Project 1 announce and will be due and demo at 10/07.
02	Color quantization Dithering	[Lecture 06] [Lecture 05]	Project 1 announce and will be due and demo at 10/07.
03	Image manipulation	[Lecture 07]	Project 1 announce and will be due and demo at 10/07.
04	P1 Demo Composition	[Lecture 08]	Project 2 due and demo at 10/28.
05	Transformation View and projection	[Lecture 09] [Lecture 10]	Project 2 due and demo at 10/28.
06	Clipping Visibility	[Lecture 12] [Lecture 11]	Project 2 due and demo at 10/28.
07	P2 Demo Visibility Rendering	[Lecture13]	Project 3 due and demo at 11/18.
08	Rendering Modeling: description of shapes	[Lecture 14]	Project 3 due and demo at 11/18.
09	Parametric representation	[Lecture 15]	Project 3 due and demo at 11/18.
10	P3 Demo Object representation	[Lecture 16]	Project 4 due and demo at 12/16.
11	Subdivision	[Lecture 17]	Project 4 due and demo at 12/16.
12	Texture mapping	[Lecture 18]	Project 4 due and demo at 12/16.
13	GPU shading Parallel computation with GPU	[Lecture 20] [Lecture 19]	Project 4 due and demo at 12/16.
14	P4 Demo Global illumination	[Lecture 21]	Project 5 due and demo at 01/13.
15	Global illumination Animation	[Lecture 22]	Project 5 due and demo at 01/13.
16	Animation		Project 5 due and demo at 01/13.
17			Project 5 due and demo at 01/13.
18			Project 5 due and demo at 01/13.
19	P5 Demo?		Project 5 due and demo at 01/13.
20	P5 Demo?		Project 5 due and demo at 01/13.

PreRequisites

Technically, Data Structures and some familiarity with linear algebra.

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Main Textbook

Peter Shirley. Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, 3^rd ed.

Reference books

Reference interactive program website: http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/research/exploratory/freeSoftware/catalogs/repositoryApplets.html

Mason Woo, et al. The OpenGL Programmer's Guide.

This is sometimes known as the "red book."

The current edition is the 6th edition, but for the purposes of this class an older edition would be OK too. If you don't want to buy this book, the complete contents of the older version is online in html. There used to be an online PDF version as well, but it seems to have vanished. The old edition is OK for most things, the critical chapter in the 6e will be provided online in class.

There will be some readings from this book, and its an important reference.

Tomas Akenine-Mller and Eric Haines. Real Time Rendering, 3e.

This book is specifically about real-time rendering, and is very useful if you're interested in interactive stuff like games. It is really well written, and has great discussions of a lot of the basic topics. The new edition just came out (so new its out of stock most places), and is quite encyclopedic. Its an awesome reference book, but a little hard to learn from, so I highly recommend it if you are serious about graphics.

Exam

Grading

Mutual discussion and participation: 30%
Projects (15, 10, 10, 10, 25% each): 70%

Programming Projects

Homework

For each programming assignment, create a working directory named: YourStID-Name-AXX, e.g. \B10415001-張XX-A01\, and create solution files and source code files in the directory
After finishing your work, zip the working directory with solution/project files and source code files only into a file name: YourStID-Name-AXX.zip.Keep your files as concisely as possible.
Upload the zip file to Moodle.
Remarks: to make sure your uploaded work could be unzipped and compiled and tested correctly, suggest that you can download the uploaded file and test it again.(suggest compile RELEASE program to demo)

Syllabus

Tentative Syllabus

Introduction
- Administrative matters
- What's computer graphics
- Light and the human visual system
- Color
Image Algorithms and 2D Special Effects
- Images, quantization and sampling
- Image manipulations
- Flood fill, dithering
- Point processing (contrast enhancement, compositing)
- Filtering
Raster graphics
Coordinate systems and transformations
- Homogeneous vector and matrix notation
- 2D/3D transformations
- Chaining transformations
- Nonlinear transformations (free form deformation)
The graphics pipeline and toolkits
- Graphics programming and OpenGL
- Event-drivenprogramming
3D Viewing and Projection:
- Perspective projection
- Viewing coordinate systemsand view volumes
- Clipping
Hidden surface removal
- Introduction to Visibility
Rendering
- Line and polygon scan conversion
- Painter's algorithm
- Z-buffer algorithm
- Local shading models
  - Illumination and reflection
  - Gouraud & Phong shading
- Texture mapping
Modeling Hierarchies
- What hierarchies are and why we use them
- Matrix stack primitives
- Hierarchy algorithms
- Modeling examples
- Getting the right "control knob"
- Hierarchies w/nonlinear transformations
- Interface and implementation issues
Geometric Modeling
- Modeling with polygons
- Spline curves: natrual, hermite, bezier, etc.
- Recursive subdivision, forward differencing
- Bicubic surfaces
- Solid primitives, sweeps, B-reps
- Implicit surfaces, quadrics, blobs
- Booleans, CSG
- Fractals
GPU Related
- Shaders
- CUDA and OpenCL
Raytracing
- Ray-surface intersection testing
- Ray casting
- Shadows and Transparency
- Recursive ray tracing
- Spatial data structures for optimization
Global shading
Animation
- Traditional cel animation
- Keyframes: state space points and trajectories
- Inbetweening: linear interpolation
- Interpolating splines, slow in and out, etc.
- Procedural animation
- Inverse Kinematics
- Dynamics and control
- Interface and implementation issues
Other topics