CSC 433 - Computer Graphics

Instructor: Joshua A. Levine
Office: 754 Gould-Simpson
Meets: M/W 2:00-3:15pm, 906 Gould-Simpson
Office Hours: M 3:30-4:30pm, T 4:30-5:30pm (GS 754), or by appointment
TA: Kairong Jiang, jiangkairong@email.arizona.edu
TA Office Hours: T 10:00-11:00am, F 1:00-2:00pm (GS 919)

Course Syllabus
D2L (for 433)
Piazza

Course Calendar

All dates and times on this page are tentative and subject to change!

Week	Date	Monday	Date	Wednesday

1	Aug 20	Introduction	Aug 22	Raster Images
2	Aug 27	Color and Perception	Aug 29	Image Compositing
3	Sep 03	-- Labor Day --	Sep 05	Signal Processing
4	Sep 10	Image Manipulation	Sep 12	Chapter 2 Math + Coding
5	Sep 17	Ray Tracing 1	Sep 19	Ray Tracing 2
6	Sep 24	Ray Tracing 3	Sep 26	Ray Tracing 4 (GHC)
7	Oct 01	Triangle Meshes	Oct 03	Acceleration Structures
8	Oct 08	Matrix Math + Coding	Oct 10	Transformations
9	Oct 15	Viewing	Oct 17	Midterm Exam
10	Oct 22	-- In-Class Review --	Oct 24	-- IEEE VIS --
11	Oct 29	Graphics Pipeline 1	Oct 31	Graphics Pipeline 2
12	Nov 05	Textures	Nov 07	Animation 1
13	Nov 12	-- Veterans Day --	Nov 14	Animation 2
14	Nov 19	Animation 3	Nov 21	Curves
15	Nov 26	Curves/Surfaces	Nov 28	Implicit Modeling
16	Dec 03	Global Illumination	Dec 05	Final Exam Review

Final Exam: Wed., Dec. 12, 1-3pm, 906 Gould-Simpson

Highlighted dates have a programming assignment due immediately before class begins on that day.
Boxed dates correspond to the day after the deadlines for the dropping (without a W) and the the withdraw deadlines for this semester. See Fall 2018 Undergraduate Dates and Deadlines

Link to dropbox folder with all lecture slides

Lecture 01 - Introduction (slides)

Date: August 20, 2018

Required Reading:

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

Lecture 02 - Raster Images (slides)

Date: August 22, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 3 (particularly 3.1-3.2)

Optional Reading:

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

Lecture 03 - Color and Perception (slides)

Date: August 27, 2018

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 04 - Image Compositing (slides)

Date: August 29, 2018

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 05 - Signal Processing (slides)

Date: September 05, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 9 (particularly 9.1-9.2)

Optional Reading:

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

Lecture 06 - Image Manipulation (slides)

Date: September 10, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 9 (particularly 9.3-9.4)

Optional Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 21 (particularly 21.1-21.3)

Lecture 07 - Chapter 2 Math + Coding (slides)

Date: September 12, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 2 (particularly 2.1-2.4)

Optional Reading:

To test out the vec2d code that we discussed in class, please clone this repo: https://github.com/UA-CSC433-Fall2018/vec2d/

Lecture 08 - Ray Tracing 1 (slides)

Date: September 17, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 4.1-4.4

Lecture 09 - Ray Tracing 2 (slides)

Date: September 19, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 4.5-4.9

Lecture 10 - Ray Tracing 3 (slides)

Date: September 24, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 4 (all), 10

Lecture 11 - Ray Tracing 4 (GHC) (slides)

Date: September 26, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 13

Optional Reading:

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

Lecture 12 - Triangle Meshes (slides)

Date: October 01, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 12.1

Lecture 13 - Acceleration Structures (slides)

Date: October 03, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 12.3

Lecture 14 - Matrix Math + Coding (slides)

Date: October 08, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 5

Optional Reading:

To test out the matrix code that we discussed in class, please clone this repo: https://github.com/UA-CSC433-Fall2018/matrix2d/

Lecture 15 - Transformations (slides)

Date: October 10, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 6

Lecture 16 - Viewing (slides)

Date: October 15, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 7

Lecture 17 - Midterm Exam

Date: October 17, 2018

Required Reading:

Please see the slides from L15 for a brief review of all material the midterm exam will cover.

Lecture 18 - Graphics Pipeline 1 (slides)

Date: October 29, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 8.1

Optional Reading:

CS4620 View Explorer - Steve Marschner (Cornell)

Lecture 19 - Graphics Pipeline 2 (slides)

Date: October 31, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 8.2

Lecture 20 - Textures (slides)

Date: November 05, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 11.1-11.4

Lecture 21 - Animation 1 (slides)

Date: November 07, 2018

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 22 - Animation 2 (slides)

Date: November 14, 2018

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 23 - Animation 3 (slides)

Date: November 19, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 16.6-16.7

Optional Reading:

Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model - Craig W. Reynolds, SIGGRAPH 1987.

Lecture 24 - Curves (slides)

Date: November 21, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 15

Lecture 25 - Curves/Surfaces (slides)

Date: November 26, 2018

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 26 - Implicit Modeling (slides)

Date: November 28, 2018

Required Reading:

FOCG, Ch. 22

Lecture 27 - Global Illumination (slides)

Date: December 03, 2018

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 28 - Final Exam Review (slides)

Date: December 05, 2018

Required Reading:

None

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Assignment 01 - Image Basics
Assigned: Aug 22
Due: Sep 05 01:59:59 PM
Graded: Sep 12

Assignment 02 - Images
Assigned: Sep 05
Due: Sep 24 01:59:59 PM
Graded: Oct 01

Assignment 03 - Ray Tracing
Assigned: Sep 24
Due: Oct 15 01:59:59 PM
Graded: Oct 22

Assignment 04 - Shapes
Assigned: Oct 15
Due: Oct 31 01:59:59 PM
Graded: Nov 07

Assignment 05 - Rasterizer
Assigned: Oct 31
Due: Nov 19 01:59:59 PM
Graded: Nov 26

Assignment 06 - Animation
Assigned: Nov 19
Due: Dec 05 01:59:59 PM
Graded: Dec 10