Instructor: Joshua A. Levine
Office: 754 Gould-Simpson
Meets: M/W 5:00-6:15pm, 906 Gould-Simpson
Office Hours: W 8:30-9:30am, R 4-5pm (GS 930), or by appointment (GS 754)
TA: Anand Vastrad, anandvastrad@email.arizona.edu
TA Office Hours: M/W 4-5pm (GS 903)

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

Week Date Monday Date Wednesday
1 Jan 08 -- No Class -- Jan 10 Introduction
2 Jan 15 -- MLK Day -- Jan 17 Raster Images
3 Jan 22 Color and Perception Jan 24 Signal Processing 1
4 Jan 29 Signal Processing 2 Jan 31 Tone Reproduction
5 Feb 05 Ray Tracing 1 Feb 07 Ray Tracing 2
6 Feb 12 Ray Tracing 3 Feb 14 Ray Tracing 4
7 Feb 19 Triangle Meshes Feb 21 -- Cancelled --
8 Feb 26 Acceleration Structures Feb 28 Midterm Exam
9 Mar 05 -- Spring Break -- Mar 07 -- Spring Break --
10 Mar 12 Textures Mar 14 Transformations
11 Mar 19 Viewing Mar 21 Graphics Pipeline 1
12 Mar 26 Graphics Pipeline 2 Mar 28 Curves 1
13 Apr 02 Curves/Surfaces Apr 04 Animation 1
14 Apr 09 Animation 2 Apr 11 Animation 3
15 Apr 16 Implicit Modeling 1 Apr 18 Implicit Modeling 2
16 Apr 23 MC Sampling Apr 25 Global Illumination
17 Apr 30 Image Compositing May 02 Final Exam Review

Final Exam: Thur., May 10, 1-3pm, 906 Gould-Simpson
Highlighted dates have a programming assignment due by the end of the previous day.
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 Spring 2018 Graduate Dates and Deadlines



Lecture 01 - Introduction (slides)

Date: January 10, 2018

Required Reading:

Lecture 02 - Raster Images (slides)

Date: January 17, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 3
Optional Reading:

Lecture 03 - Color and Perception (slides)

Date: January 22, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 19,20.1-20.2
Optional Reading:

Lecture 04 - Signal Processing 1 (slides)

Date: January 24, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 9.1-9.3
Optional Reading:
  • What Is a Pixel? - James F. Blinn. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 25(5): 82-87, 2005.

Lecture 05 - Signal Processing 2 (slides)

Date: January 29, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 9

Lecture 06 - Tone Reproduction (slides)

Date: January 31, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 21
Optional Reading:

Lecture 07 - Ray Tracing 1 (slides)

Date: February 05, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 4.1-4.4

Lecture 08 - Ray Tracing 2 (slides)

Date: February 07, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 4.5-4.9, 2

Lecture 09 - Ray Tracing 3 (slides)

Date: February 12, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 4 (all), 10

Lecture 10 - Ray Tracing 4 (slides)

Date: February 14, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 13
Optional Reading:

Lecture 11 - Triangle Meshes (slides)

Date: February 19, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 12.1

Lecture 13 - Acceleration Structures (slides)

Date: February 26, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 12.3

Lecture 15 - Textures (slides)

Date: March 12, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 11.1-11.4

Lecture 16 - Transformations (slides)

Date: March 14, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 6
Optional Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 5 (for a review on Matrices)

Lecture 17 - Viewing (slides)

Date: March 19, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 7
Optional Reading:

Lecture 18 - Graphics Pipeline 1 (slides)

Date: March 21, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 8

Lecture 19 - Graphics Pipeline 2 (slides)

Date: March 26, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 8

Lecture 20 - Curves 1 (slides)

Date: March 28, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 15

Lecture 21 - Curves/Surfaces (slides)

Date: April 02, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 15
Optional Reading:

Lecture 22 - Animation 1 (slides)

Date: April 04, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 16
Optional Reading:

Lecture 23 - Animation 2 (slides)

Date: April 09, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 16
Optional Reading:

Lecture 24 - Animation 3 (slides)

Date: April 11, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 16
Optional Reading:

Lecture 25 - Implicit Modeling 1 (slides)

Date: April 16, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 22
Optional Reading:

Lecture 26 - Implicit Modeling 2 (slides)

Date: April 18, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 22
Optional Reading:

Lecture 27 - MC Sampling (slides)

Date: April 23, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 14,18

Lecture 28 - Global Illumination (slides)

Date: April 25, 2018

Required Reading:
  • FOCG, Ch. 23
Optional Reading:

Lecture 29 - Image Compositing (slides)

Date: April 30, 2018

Required Reading: Optional Reading:

Lecture 30 - Final Exam Review (slides)

Date: May 02, 2018

Required Reading:
  • None

Assignment 01 - Image Basics
  Assigned: Jan 17
  Due: Jan 28 11:59:59 PM
  Graded: Feb 04

Assignment 02 - Images
  Assigned: Jan 29
  Due: Feb 13 11:59:59 PM
  Graded: Feb 20

Assignment 03 - Ray Tracing
  Assigned: Feb 14
  Due: Mar 11 11:59:59 PM
  Graded: Mar 18

Assignment 04 - Shapes
  Assigned: Mar 12
  Due: Mar 25 11:59:59 PM
  Graded: Apr 01

Assignment 05 - Rasterizer
  Assigned: Mar 26
  Due: Apr 15 11:59:59 PM
  Graded: Apr 22

Assignment 06 - Animation
  Assigned: Apr 16
  Due: May 02 11:59:59 PM
  Graded: May 06