EECS 487, Fall 2005
Syllabus


The following is the tentative schedule of topics to be covered this term.
(The schedule later in the semester is still not fully specified, and the schedule
for homework exercises is still open -- expect 3 or 4 homework assignments.)

Book title abbreviations:
    FCG: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
    OGL: OpenGL® Programming Guide

See the main course page and the course information page for additional info about the textbooks, projects, homework, etc.
Some lectures are online; see the phorum for details.

Date
 Topic
 Reading
 Homework
 Presentation
 Paper/Web page
 Programming







Sep. 7
 Intro
 FCG, chap. 1










Sep. 12
 Overview, math
 FCG, chap. 2


Project 1 assigned
Sep. 14
 Triangles,
raster algorithms
 FCG, chap. 3
 HW 1 assigned









Sep. 19
 Raster algorithms

Mark Hynes

Sep. 21
 OpenGL intro OGL, chap. 1, 2
 HW 1 due
 Shaun Cox








Sep. 26
 Lighting
 FCG, chap. 9
OGL, chap. 5
Steve Jones
Project 1 due
Project 2 assigned
Sep. 28
 Lighting

Mike Cook








Oct. 3
 GLSL intro
 OGL, chap. 15
Haixiong Wang

Oct. 5
 GLSL continued











Oct. 10
 2D and 3D
transforms		 FCG, chap. 6
Brian Ciaramella

Oct. 12
 Viewing;
review for midterm
 FCG, chap. 7
 HW 2 assigned

Project 2 due
Project 3 assigned







Oct. 17
 study break -- no class




Oct. 19
 midterm (in class)
HW 2 due









Oct. 24
 Perspective viewing;
SKETCH video
 FCG, chap. 7
Dave Fick
 Gareth Lewis
Alex Sarkesian
Wei-Hao Chen
Oct. 26
 Project 3 concepts review

James Sweeney








Oct. 31
 Curves FCG, chap. 15
Travis Howe
 Robert Martinez
Drew Mokris
Hiam Khoury
Nov. 2
 Curves

Tareq Ahmed
Project 3 due







Nov. 7
 Curves


Sean Kilcoin
James Leung
James Wood
Nov. 9
 Animation FCG, chap. 16
Levi Weintraub







Project 4 assigned 11/11, due 11/28
Nov. 14
 Animation
HW 3 assigned
 Fadi Elnaggar
 Ben Nash
Chris Best
Nov. 16
 Texturing FCG, chap. 11
Karol Szerszen








Nov. 21
 Ray tracing FCG, chap. 10 HW 3 due
 Paul Tessmann
 Dan Dodd
Sagar Agrawal
David Madigan
Nov. 23
 Ray tracing











Nov. 28
 project 5 intro;
Realistic rendering		 FCG, chap. 23, 24
Rob Grant
 Ken Domke
Peng Guo


 Project 4 due
Project 5 assigned, due 12/7
Nov. 30
 Realistic rendering

John Schultz








Dec. 5
 Radiosity
HW 4 assigned
 Nidhi Jaiswal
 George Mike
Jon Cable
Dec. 7
 Non-photorealistic rendering











Dec. 12 course evaluations;
review for final
HW 4 due


Dec. 14
 no class



Project 5 due







Dec. 21 Final exam, 4-6 pm,
location: 1500 EECS






Last updated: November 27, 2005