CSC 433/533 - Computer Graphics

Fall 2019

Instructor: Joshua A. Levine
Office: 754 Gould-Simpson
Meets: M/W 5:00-6:15pm, 906 Gould-Simpson
Office Hours: M 3:30-4:30pm, T 4:30-5:30pm
TA: Chinmai Basavaraj, chinmaib@email.arizona.edu
TA Office Hours: W 3:30-4:30pm, R 9:30-10:30am (GS 919)

Course Syllabus
D2L (for 433)
D2L (for 533)
Piazza

Course Calendar

(tentative, subject to change)

Week	Date	Monday	Date	Wednesday

1	Aug 26	Introduction	Aug 28	Javascript Intro
2	Sep 02	-- Labor Day --	Sep 04	Raster Images
3	Sep 09	Color and Perception	Sep 11	Signal Processing
4	Sep 16	Tone Reproduction	Sep 18	Image Compositing
5	Sep 23	Chapter 2 Math + Coding	Sep 25	Ray Tracing 1
6	Sep 30	Ray Tracing 2	Oct 02	Ray Tracing 3
7	Oct 07	Ray Tracing 4	Oct 09	Global Illumination
8	Oct 14	Triangle Meshes	Oct 16	Acceleration Structures
9	Oct 21	Midterm Exam	Oct 23	-- IEEE VIS --
10	Oct 28	Matrix Math + Coding	Oct 30	Transformations
11	Nov 04	Viewing	Nov 06	Graphics Pipeline 1
12	Nov 11	-- Veterans Day --	Nov 13	Graphics Pipeline 2
13	Nov 18	Textures	Nov 20	Animation 1
14	Nov 25	Animation 2	Nov 27	Animation 3
15	Dec 02	Curves	Dec 04	Curves/Surfaces
16	Dec 09	Implicit Modeling	Dec 11	Final Exam Review

Final Exam: Thur., Dec 19, 1-3pm, 906 Gould-Simpson
Highlighted dates have a an assignment due by the start of class.
Boxed dates correspond to the nearest class day to the deadlines for the dropping (without a W) and the withdraw deadlines for this semester. See Fall 2019 Undergraduate Dates and Deadlines and Fall 2019 Graduate Dates and Deadlines for complete details.

Link to Google drive folder with all lecture slides

Lecture 01 - Introduction

Date: August 26, 2019

Required Reading:

Course Syllabus
FOCG, Ch. 1 (note, available electronically through the UA library)

Optional Reading:

Javascript and CSC559 - Michael Gleicher (Wisconsin). An interesting perspective on Javascript and Graphics, and some useful links to learning Javascript

Lecture 02 - Javascript Intro

Date: August 28, 2019

Required Reading:

Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers - Chapter 1. Basic JavaScript (note, most chapters of this book cover Javascript in great detail, but the focus of the book is ES5)

Optional Reading:

Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd Edition: A Modern Introduction to Programming (note, this is as a reference. The book is a great way to learn ES6, but you need not read it all at once)
Introductions to the Web Stack, Javascript, and DOM Manipulation - Carlos Scheidegger (Arizona). These links cover the first few lectures of CSC 444. Not all of the material is relevant to our course (you will not need any of the info about CSS or SVGs), but especially the Javascript lecture will provide you another opportunity for practice! His Quizzes also are useful practice.
Advice on Learning Javascript - Michael Gleicher (Wisconsin). Other than the textbook links, check out the video lectures at the bottom of this page for more repetition on the basics of the language, closures, and more
Example Code from Class - use `git clone https://github.com/UA-CSC433-Fall2019/l02_examples` to download

Lecture 03 - Raster Images

Date: September 04, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 3 (particularly 3.1-3.2)

Optional Reading:

LCD Monitor Teardown (watch) - Bill Hammack, The Engineer Guy

Lecture 04 - Color and Perception

Date: September 09, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 3.3
FOCG, Ch. 19

Optional Reading:

Color (listen) - Radiolab
Representing Colors as Three Numbers. Maureen Stone, Computer Graphics and Applications, 25(4), July 2005, pp. 78-85.
http://www.brucelindbloom.com Bruce Lindbloom. Useful color information, studies, and Files.
Is Your Red The Same as My Red? (watch) - Vsauce.

Lecture 05 - Signal Processing

Date: September 11, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 9 (particularly 9.1-9.2, 533 students should also look at 9.3-9.4)

Optional Reading:

What Is a Pixel? - James F. Blinn. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 25(5): 82-87, 2005.

Lecture 06 - Tone Reproduction

Date: September 16, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 21 (particularly 21.1-21.3)

Optional Reading:

Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High-Dynamic-Range Images - Frédo Durand and Julie Dorsey. SIGGRAPH 2002.
Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs - Paul Debevec, Jitendra Malik. SIGGRAPH 1998.
Photographic Tone Reproduction for Digital Images - Erik Reinhard, Mike Stark, Peter Shirley and Jim Ferwerda. SIGGRAPH 2002.

Lecture 07 - Image Compositing

Date: September 18, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 3.4
FOCG, Ch. 20.1-20.2
Compositing Digital Images. Thomas Porter and Tom Duff, SIGGRAPH Comput. Graph. 18(3): 253-259, 1984.

Optional Reading:

Blue screen matting. Alvy Ray Smith and James F. Blinn, SIGGRAPH, 259-268, 1996.

Lecture 08 - Chapter 2 Math + Coding

Date: September 23, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 2 (particularly 2.1-2.4)

Optional Reading:

Example Code from Class - use `git clone https://github.com/UA-CSC433-Fall2019/l08_examples` to download

Lecture 09 - Ray Tracing 1

Date: September 25, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 4.1-4.4

Lecture 10 - Ray Tracing 2

Date: September 30, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 4.5-4.9

Lecture 11 - Ray Tracing 3

Date: October 02, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 4 (all), 10

Lecture 12 - Ray Tracing 4

Date: October 07, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 13

Optional Reading:

Distributed Ray Tracing - Robert L. Cook, Thomas Porter, Loren Carpenter. SIGGRAPH 1984.

Lecture 13 - Global Illumination

Date: October 09, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 23

Optional Reading:

Global Illumination using Photon Maps - Henrik Wann Jensen. In Rendering Techniques, pp. 21-30, 1996
Metropolis Light Transport - Eric Veach and Leonidas J. Guibas, SIGGRAPH 97

Lecture 14 - Triangle Meshes

Date: October 14, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 12.1

Lecture 15 - Acceleration Structures

Date: October 16, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 12.3

Lecture 16 - Midterm Exam

Date: October 21, 2019

Required Reading:

Please see the slides from L14 for a brief review of all material the midterm exam will cover.

Lecture 17 - Matrix Math + Coding

Date: October 28, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 5

Optional Reading:

Example Code from Class - use `git clone https://github.com/UA-CSC433-Fall2019/l17_examples` to download

Lecture 18 - Transformations

Date: October 30, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 6

Lecture 19 - Viewing

Date: November 04, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 7

Optional Reading:

CS4620 View Explorer - Steve Marschner (Cornell)

Lecture 20 - Graphics Pipeline 1

Date: November 06, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 8.1

Lecture 21 - Graphics Pipeline 2

Date: November 13, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 8.2

Lecture 22 - Textures

Date: November 18, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 11.1-11.4

Lecture 23 - Animation 1

Date: November 20, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 16.1-16.2,16.4

Optional Reading:

Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation - John Lasseter, SIGGRAPH, 35-44, 1987

Lecture 24 - Animation 2

Date: November 25, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 16.3,16.5

Optional Reading:

Physically Based Modeling: Principles and Practice - Andrew Witkin, David Baraff. SIGGRAPH course, 1997.
Skinning Mesh Animations - Doug L. James, Christopher D. Twigg. SIGGRAPH 2005.

Lecture 25 - Animation 3

Date: November 27, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 16.6-16.7

Optional Reading:

Large Steps in Cloth Simulation - David Baraff, Andrew Witkin. SIGGRAPH 1998.
Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model - Craig W. Reynolds, SIGGRAPH 1987.

Lecture 26 - Curves

Date: December 02, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 15

Lecture 27 - Curves/Surfaces

Date: December 04, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 15

Optional Reading:

Recursively generated B-spline surfaces on arbitrary topological meshes - Edward Catmull and Jim Clark. Computer-Aided Design 10(6): 350-355, 1978.

Lecture 28 - Implicit Modeling

Date: December 09, 2019

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 22

Optional Reading:

A Generalization of Algebraic Surface Drawing - James F. Blinn. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 1(3), 235-256, 1982.
Guaranteed ray intersections with implicit surfaces - Devendra Kalra and Alan H. Barr. SIGGRAPH 1989.

Assignment 01 - Image Basics
Assigned: Aug 28
Written: Sep 09 04:59:59 PM
Due: Sep 11 04:59:59 PM
Graded: Sep 18

Assignment 02 - Images
Assigned: Sep 11
Written: Sep 23 04:59:59 PM
Due: Sep 25 04:59:59 PM
Graded: Oct 02

Assignment 03 - Scaffolding
Assigned: Sep 25
Written: Oct 07 04:59:59 PM
Due: Oct 09 04:59:59 PM
Graded: Oct 16

Assignment 04 - Ray Tracing
Assigned: Oct 09
Written: Oct 28 04:59:59 PM
Due: Oct 30 04:59:59 PM
Graded: Nov 06

Assignment 05 - Shapes
Assigned: Oct 30
Written: Nov 12 04:59:59 PM
Due: Nov 13 04:59:59 PM
Graded: Nov 20

Assignment 06 - Rasterizer
Assigned: Nov 13
Written: Nov 25 04:59:59 PM
Due: Nov 27 04:59:59 PM
Graded: Dec 04

Assignment 07 - Animation
Assigned: Nov 27
Written: Dec 09 04:59:59 PM
Due: Dec 11 04:59:59 PM
Graded: Dec 18