Course Outline

Lecture Monday 1st November 2004 at 13.15

• Introduction
• Survey and History of Computer Graphics
• Graphics Standards
• Interactive Graphics

Text book reading: Chapter 1.

Lecture Thursday 4th November 2004 at 13.15

• 2D Primitives and Attributes
• OpenGL and Primitives
• Scan Conversion of Lines, Circles, Ellipses and Polygons
• Display Technologies
• Display Systems

Text book reading: 2.1-2.4, 3.5, 3.7, 3.9-3.11, 3.13-3.15, 4.10-4.13.

Lecture Monday 8st November 2004 at 13.15

• Color Models
• Using Colors Effectively in Computer Graphics

Text book reading: 4.2, 12.1-12.4, 12.6-12.7

Lecture Thursday 11th November 2004 at 13.15

• 3D Viewing
• Perspective Projections
• Parallel Projections
• Orthographics
• Oblique
• View Volume
• Project 2

Text book reading: 7.1-7.10

Lecture Monday 15th November 2004 at 13.15

• Anitaliasing Techniques
• Supersampling
• Unweighted Area Sampling
• Weighted Area Sampling
• Clipping
• Cohen-Sutherland Line Clipping Algorithm
• Liang-Barsky Line Clipping Algorithm
• Sutherland and Hodgman Polygon Clipping

Text book reading: Chapter 4.17, 6.5-6.8

Lecture Thursday 18th November 2004 at 13.15

• Illumination Model + Project 2

Lecture Monday 22th November 2004 at 13.15

• 2D Geometric Transformations
• Translation
• Scaling
• Rotation
• Homogeneous Coordinates
• 2D Translation
• 2D Scaling
• 2D Rotation
• Composition of 2D Transformation
• Other 2D Transformations
• 3D Transformations
• 3D Translation
• 3D Scaling
• 3D Rotation
• Coordinate Systems

Text book reading: 5.1-5.5, 5.8-5.16

Lecture Monday 29th November 2004 at 13.15

• Representing Polygon Meshes
• Parametric Cubic Curves
• Hermite Curves
• Bezier Curves
• B-spline Curves
• NURBS

Text book reading: 8.8-8.13,8.15, 8.17, 8.19

Lecture Thursday 2nd December 2004 at 13.15

• Parametric Cubic Surfaces
• Hermite Surfaces
• Bezier Surfaces
• B-spline Surfaces
• Dispalying Surfaces and Surface Normals
• Quadric Surfaces
• Surfaces of Revolution
• Sweep Representation

Text book reading: See lecture November 29.

Lecture Monday 6th December 2004 at 13.15

• Light sources
• Basic Illumination model
• Transparency
• Polygon rendering
  • Flat shading
  • Gouraud
  • Phong
• Ray tracing
• Radiosity

Text book reading: Chapter 10.17 - 10.21

Lecture Thursday 9nd December 2004 at 13.15

• Texture mapping
• Bump mapping
• OpenGL Texturing

Text book reading: Chapter 9.1 - 9.15

Lecture Monday 13th December 2004 at 13.15

• Visible-Surface Determination
• Backface Culling
• Z-Buffer
• A-buffer
• Scan-line method
• Depth Sort Algorithm
• BSP-Tree method

Lecture Thursday 16th December 2004 at 13.15

• Survey of Scientific Visualization

Text book reading: Chapter 13.1 - 13.10, 13.11

Lecture Monday 20th December 2004 at 13.15

Lecture Thursday 13th January 2005 at 13.15

• Exam Review