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Fundamentals of Computer Graphics COMP 557
Fall 2008 TJ 1:05-2:25 ENGTR 070

Instructor: Prof. Michael Langer
Office: ENGMC 329
Phone: 398-3740
email : langer @ cim.mcgill.ca
office hours: by appointment

Teaching Assistant (T.A.): Fahim Mannan
Office:   ENGMC 336
Phone: TBD
email:    fahim.mannan[@]mail.mcgill.ca
office hours:   by appointment

Lecture Schedule and Notes

Geometry
1- pixels, RGB, drawing a line (PDF)
2 - rotations (PDF)
3 - transformation from world to camera coord (PDF)
4 - projections, homogeneous coordinates (PDF)
5 - view volume, projective transformations (PDF)
6 - normalized view volume, clipping (PDF)
7 - display coordinates, hidden surface removal (PDF)
8 - quadrics, efficient ray casting (octtrees, bounding volumes) (PDF )
9 - cubic curves and surfaces (PDF)
10 - fractals (PDF)
11 - meshes, level of detail (PDF)
12 - L-systems and plant models (PDF)

Rendering

13 - illumination and reflectance models (PDF)
14 - shading polygons (Gouraud and Phong) (PDF)
15 - texture mapping (PDF)
16 - procedural textures, bump mapping (PDF)
17 - environment mapping (PDF)
18 - shadows (PDF)
19 - image compositing (PDF)
20 - volume rendering (PDF)
21 - focus and the accumulation buffer (PDF)

Image capture and display

22 - color (PDF)
23 - image capture (PDF)
24 - image display (gamma correction) (PDF)

Assignments, Exercises, Exams, etc

Exercises 4 and solutions
typos/errors in the lecture notes, which have now been corrected. Consult these before you send me email asking for bonus points.
some starter code to help with lighting in A3 Part 1 Question 1
Exercises 3 and solutions
Final Exam will be on Dec. 17 at 2 pm in ARTS 145/150 (It will cover lectures 10 to 24 and is worth 40% of your grade)
Assignment 3 (Part 2) (PDF) and (code) was posted Friday Nov. 21. Both Parts 1 and 2 are due Tues. Dec. 2 (midnight).
Assignment 3 (Part 1) (PDF) and (code) was posted Sunday Nov. 7 (and revised Nov. 16)
The midterm was held on Tues, Oct. 14. It covered material from lectures 1-9. (Class average was 14.3/20.) Here are the solutions
Assignment 2 (PDF) and tar file (due on Nov. 4)
Exercises 2 and solutions.
Assignment 1 (PDF) and tar file (was due Oct 5)
Exercises 1 and solutions.
Example OpenGL code: Assignment 1 from last year (Fall 2007)
Course Outline for Fall 2008

Other Useful Resources

Reference Books (see Course Outline above)
Computer Graphics university research labs and companies in Canada
Computer Graphics Programming