Computer Graphics Schedule

Programming assignments will be due in weeks 7, 10, 13.

The lecturer may vary the due dates for assignment presentations by up to a week to allow for workload, conflicts with other units, or unforeseen circumstances.

Lecture contents may change. This is what I would like to cover and in more or less this order. Yes it would be good to be more precise, but the students and computer graphics itself change every year and the course is always a bit different than before.

Week	Topics	Reference	Lab
1	Overview of the course Overview of computer graphics Human visual system	text 1 Pascals lecture notes	Unix CLI Retro graphics
2	Interactive program design Coordinate spaces & transformations	text 11.6-7, 6.4 text 3.1-3.2	3D Transformations and Event Programming
3	More coordinate spaces & transformations Display technology Submit geometry exercise	text 7.1-7.6, 5 text 2.1-2.3	3D Transformations and Blob Person
4	Working with OpenGL High level drawing primitives	text 3.1-3.7, 4.1-4.9 text 8.4-8.6	OpenGL Transformations and OpenGL modelling
5	Polygon geometry Effective design and programming	text 3.1-3.16, 8.1-8.2	Catch up session. If you've done them all, More OpenGL or take a break.
6	Scene graphs Hidden surfaces & clipping	text 14 text 9	Catch up, or assignment 1
7	Input device types Picking & input handling	text 2.4, 11.1-4 text 11.6	Assignment 1 presentation OpenGL Picking for those interested
8	Texture mapping	text 10.17, 10.21	OpenGL Texture mapping
	mid-semester break
9	Real time lighting	text 10.1-10.10, 10.20	Lighting
10	More lighting Virtual reality		Assignment 2, or More Lighting
11	3D implementation Optional, but will review most of course so far		Assignment 2 presentation
12	Image manipulation Parametric curves Both optional		Image manipulation Beziers in OpenGL
13	Image compositing, course feedback, the exam, intro to batch CGI optional

See also the course assessment page.