CSE466: Computer Graphics

Fall 2004

Meeting time: MWF 9:35-10:25 in DBRT 120

Instructor: Dr. Flynn, 631-8803, flynn@nd.edu; OH MW 8:00-9:15 and by appointment

TA: Haoshu Wang, 631-4391, hwang1@nd.edu; OH T&Th 1:30-3:00 and by appointment (tentative)

News

• 8/29/04: web site created. Syllabus, honor code, skel.c and Makefile posted.
• 9/7/04: Added lecture notes; added pointers to openGL-on-Windows docs.
• 9/17/04: updated HW4; fixed the Bush memo figure
• 10/10/04: Added phase-1 wrapup document (also emailed)
• 10/14/04: Added sample midterm and final exams
• 10/29/04: Updated grades, tuned HW5+6
• 11/5/04: updated HW5+6 due date; added link to Angel code
• 11/12/04: added parametric cubic curve demos
• 11/22/04: added HW8 due date
• 11/29/04: updated grades
• 12/1/04: finalized HW
• 12/2/04: extended due date for final project
• 12/5/04: updated grades with HW6 and HW7
  

Homework sets

• HW Chapter 2: due 9/8: 2-3 (use your computer, or a ND computer; xdpyinfo for resolution), 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, 2-20+2-21 (code it up!)
• HW Chapter 3: due 9/22: 3-2 (code it up; test on 100 random lines), 3-3 (code it up); 3-15 (write it up and code it up; so the cosine function also), 3-24, 3-27 (code, test), 3-28, 3-37 (code, test it on the letters N and D).
• HW Chapter 4: due 9/29: 4-2+4-3 (do your name), 4-25 (use the winning %age of the ND sports team of your choice over the past 8 years as data), 4-29
• HW Chapter 5 (part 1): due 10/25: 5-2 (trig identities helpful here), 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, 5-10, 5-12, 5-13,  5-27, 5-29
  
• HW Chapter 5 (part 2) and Chapter 6: due 11/10: 5-1, 5-7 (test it), 5-19, 6-3, 6-5 (test as follows: screen 512x512, viewport [-1 1] x [-1 1], clip rectangle [-0.5 0.5] x [-0.5 0.5], 100 line segments with random endpoints in the viewport, draw surviving portions in green and clipped portions in red )
• HW Chapter 7: due 11/19: 7-1 (text I/O sufficient), 7-8 (visualize using 100 random line segments)
• HW Chapter 8: due 12/3: 8-2 (display), 8-3 (include end caps, display), 8-16 (code it up), 8-27 (code it up).
  
• HW Chapter 9+10: due 12/14: 9-1 + 9-2 (use default view specification: [-1 1]x[-1 1] parallel projection, view vector is in the -z direction), 10-1 + 10-2
  

• HW Chapter 2
• HW Chapter 3
• HW Chapter 4
• HW Chapter 5

Things

• Syllabus
• Honor Code
• skel.c (basic OpenGL program skeleton discussed in class) and Makefile (not sure it works with Linux yet)
• Lecture Notes (pdf); Spring03 notes also posted
  
• A couple of items for making OpenGL work on Windows
• Some simple sample OpenGL code, with Makefile that works on cluster Linux machines
• An orrery! (demonstration of concatenated transformations, matrix stacks, etc.)
• The 2D polygon splitter code. Mkpoly makes random stellate polygons; showpoly reads one or more filenames from stdin and displays the polygons stored in the named files.  polysplit reads a polygon from stdin and splits it, writing the output to several files (inpoly.* are debug polygons; poly*.dat are the output convex subpolygons).
  
• Project phase 1 wrap-up deliverables
• Graduate (CSE566) project info (sent via email)
• Sample midterm exam; sample final exam (PDF format)
• A 3D version of the orrery
• Code from Angel's book (includes 3D cube demos)
• Code from the textbook
• Parametric curve demos

More things

• The memo discussed in class on 9/15 in the context of typography (scanned multi-generation copy from CBS, and MSWord layout from Charles Johnson)