School of Continuing Studies
CS 351: Introduction to Computer Graphics
Fall 2004

Instructor: Amy Gooch Class meets: Saturday, 9am to 12pm Rm 342, small classroom 1890 Maple Avenue, Evanston First class: September 25th Last class: December 4th Holiday: No class Novemeber 27th (Thankgiving Holiday) [Directions]

Directory of Page information

• Syllabus [pdf]
• Students
• Projects
• Useful Links
• Schedule
• Animations we will watch
• Slides

Students

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Projects

• Project 1: Rasterization and Linear Interpolation
• Project 2: L-systems
• Project 3: 3D Viewer, rotate camera
• Project 4: Holodeck, A 3D world
• Project 5: Ray Tracer

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Links

Book Errata
• Errata for Peter Shirley's Fundamentals
OpenGL
• OpenGL.org
• Siggraph 1997 OpenGL Course Examples
• OpenGL Project Examples
• Examples
• RedBook OPENGL examples
Compiling on Windows
• How to Use Visual C++; The example is for Project 1, but once you learn how, it should be similar for each assignment. This file also includes downloadable libs and includes and instructs where they need to go in order for you to make this work at home.
• Cygwin (Unix-like terminal, complete gnu toolkit)
Image Tools
• Image magick
• Using Tiff with OpenGL
CG Definitions
• Steve's CG Index
History of CG
• CG Timeline
• Cinema Effects History
• Who's Who, From Matt Ward
Math
• Paul Bourke's Geometry Page
• Linear Algebra at MIT's OpenCourse site
• Ken Joy's Geometric Modeling Notes (Bernstein Polynomials, Bezier Curves, B-Splines, etc)
Curves
• Bezier Curves
  • Interactive Bezier Curves UK Mirror
• B-Splines
  • Interactive B-Splines
Displays
• From Leonard McMillian
• Display technologies
Color
• A good review of Color spaces (1995 SIGGRAPH Educators' Slide set)
• Color Conversion code
• Web Builders' Resource at U Iowa
• Color Matters
Other classes:
• U Washington
• DeCarlo's at Rutgers
Applets:
• U Washington
• Brown Exploratories
• Princeton CG Applets
• SIGGRAPH HyperGraph's Raytrace demo
• Need to try to find: Phong-Shade Demo by Shuping Ye and G. Scott Owen, Georgia State Univ.
• Eric Haine's VRML illumination demo
Models
• Local OBJ Model Repository
• Mesh Factory
• Modeling Shells
• 3D Cafe's Free 3d models (make sure the files you download are in a format you can import into OpenGL
• More Free models at Avalon
Textures
• Reading in texture files: Example code for using Sam Leffler's libtiff library
• 3D Cafe's Free Textures
• More Free textures at Avalon
Weird:
• Grafica

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(Short) Animations we will watch over the course

• The Adventures of Andre and Wally B., Luscasfilm 1984
• Luxo Jr., Pixar 1986 (on DVD: Toy Story 2, Pixar 1999)
• Red's Dream, Pixar 1987
• The Tin toy, Pixar 1988 (on DVD Gold Collection of Toy Story)
• KnickKnack, Pixar 1989
• The Simpsons - Treehouse of Horror VI (1995)
• Gerry's game, Pixar(on DVD: A Bugs Life, Pixar 1998)
• Bunny, Blue Sky Stuios 1998 (on Ice Age DVD)
• For the Birds, Pixar 2001 (on DVD: The Monsters Inc.)
• Bingo (Alias|Wavefront)
• Ice Age, 2002 Blue Sky Studios
• Rhythm & Hues: Animation and Visual Effects DVD
  • photoreal: Daredevil (character, blend of video & animation)
  • photoreal: Xmen and Sum-of-all-fears (smoke, dust, etc)
  • stylized: cats and dog (animals)
• Work in Progress, 2003 ILM

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Slides

Available in pdf (Adobe PDF, smallest, no animations) and ppt (Powerpoint)
• Intro to CG Slides (9.25.04) [ppt]

• Intro to OpenGL (9.25.04) [pdf]
• Intro to OpenGL Part II (10.02.04) [pdf]

• Rich's Transformation Slides, Lec 5 (10.02.04 and 10.09.04) [pdf]

• Matrix Transformation Slides (10.09.04)[pdf]

• Rich's Transformation Slides, Lec 6 (10.8.03) [pdf]

• Project Slides [pdf]
• Project Notes [pdf]

• Shading/Lighting Notes from class [pdf]
• Shading/Lighting Slides from class [pdf]

• Intro to Texture Mapping by Rosalee Wolfe [pdf] [pdf]
• Details on Texture Mapping [pdf]

• Ray Tracing [Notes (rtf)]; Slides: [pdf]

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CS 351 Schedule

DATE	Reading Assignment	Project Assigned (if any)	Project Due (if any)
Sept. 25	Read Ch 1 - 3 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics	Project #1: Rasterization and Linear Interpolation
Oct. 2	Before class: Read Ch 4 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics	Project #2: L-systems	Project #1 Due Oct 3nd 11:59pm
Oct 9	Before class: Read Ch 5 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics Handouts: lsys [pdf] [ps] lsysexamples [pdf] [ps]
Oct 16	Before class: Read Ch 6 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics Before class: Read Chapter 3 (Viewing), OpenGL Programming Guide	Project #3: 3D Viewer, rotate camera	Project #2 Due Oct 14th, 11:59pm
Oct. 23	Before class: Read Ch 7 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics Before class: Read Pg 16-25, Ch 5 (Lighting) OpenGL Programming Guide
Oct. 30	Before class: Read Ch 8 (Shading) Fundamentals of Computer Graphics		Project #3 Oct 29 11:59pm
Nov 5	Before class: Shirley: Chapter 10 (texture mapping); OpenGL Chapter 9 (Texture mapping)	Project #4: Holodeck: A 3D World
Nov 13	Before class: OpenGL book: Chapter 12 (Evaluators and NURBS); Shirley: Chapter 13 (curves and surfaces);
Nov 20	Before class: Shirley: Read Ch 9 (Ray Tracing) Fundamentals of Computer Graphics	Project #5: Ray Tracer	Project #4 Due November 19 11:59pm
Nov 27	NO CLASS:: Enjoy Turkey Holiday!!!!!
Dec 4	TBA		Project #5 Due Dec 3rd;