Cabrit Murex Seashell by Callum Galbraith

Professor BrianWyvill (home page) Email blob@cpsc.ucalgary.ca Office MS 620 Office Hours Tue/Thu  15:30 - 16:30 Lectures ICT 114 MWF 10:00 - 11:00 TR 14:00-15:15

Course Outline

Labs

Assignments

Exams

Links

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Course Schedule

Topics

Week One Sep 8 - 10 Introduction, Hardware and Raster Fundamentals,  Scan Conversion algorithms Week Two Sep 13 - 17 2D transformations,     DAGs and other hierarchies Week Three Sep 20 - 24 Scan Conversion algorithms,  clipping, 3D transforms, Week Four Sept  27 - 1 Oct perspective transforms and viewbox, Week Five Oct  4 - 8 Assignment One Due 14th October modelling, Parametric curves, Bezier-splines, Week Six Oct  11 - 15 B-spline algorithms, patches,  Generalized Cylinders,  Week Seven Oct  18 - 22  implicit modeling,  L-Systems, CSG and other modelling techniques Week Eight  Oct 25 - 29 Rendering, Images:  grey levels, gamma correction,  colour introduction. Week Nine Nov 1 - 5 Assignment Two Due 8 November Introduction to ray tracing,  Week Ten  Nov  8 - 12  Mid-Term Exam  Mon 8 Nov both sections L01/L02 Thursday/Friday  11th/12th Reading Days - No Lectures Z-buffer, A-buffer, & intro. to anti-aliasing. Lighting,  Week Eleven Nov 15 - 19 Faceted shading, Gouraud Shading, Phong shading. Week Twelve Nov 22 - 26 Making Ray Tracing more efficient.  Texture mapping and anti-aliasing. Week Thirteen Nov 29 Dec 3 Animation & Special topics HCI Week Fourteen Dec 6th - 9 Assignment Three Due 6 December Last Day of Classes Thursday December 9th

 

Course Assessment
 

Assignments
There will be three assignments worth 40% of the course marks.   The assignments are programming tasks and should be submitted electronically by the date indicated.

Assignment One
Due Date: 14 Oct 2001

2002 Assignment

Flowsnake

Assignment Two
Due Date: 8 Nov  2002
 

NOTE:  Please don't put too many enhancements in this assignment   Use your time to work on assignment three which is much more difficult!

2001 Assignment

Assignment Three
Due Date: 6 Dec 2002
2001 Assignment
2001 Assignment 3 Marking Scheme

Data for triangle meshes
Program to View the triangle meshes

• Midterm (20%)  Mon November 8th at 17:00 joint between both sections
  
• Final Exam (40%) to be scheduled by the registrar

Mid-term and answers.

The 1998 mid-term  was a take-home exam.

Take a look at the old exams 96, and final 97.
Also look at the  solution to the ray tracing problem from last years final

A collection of old exam questions is available in pdf format.

Link to Kay's page (TA for another version of this class)

Link to Ryan Schmidt's page this might be very useful when you write your ray tracer.

Birthing a Ray Tracer

Source Code Links to pixmap (ppm) format software and linearalgebra code, ray tracing code etc.

C++ tutorial

OpenGL

QT

jsp

jgl

See the 2000 Ray Tracing Contest Images

implicit tutorial .

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