Computer Graphics CS770/870

Instructor: Colin Ware
Classroom: J.E. Chase Ocean Engineering Lab, Room 130

This course is an introduction to computer graphics.

Textbook

TextBook: Edward Angel, Interactive Computer Graphics, Fifth Edition. Addison Wesley.

Topics Covered

The graphics virtual machine

The graphical User Interface and basic 2D drawing using OpenGL

• The graphics library utility toolkit (glut) and simple interactive programming
• Drawing geometric shapes with difference colors and sizes.

Geometric Transformations

• Matrix operations for rotations, translations and scales.
• Composing geometric operations
• Dot products and cross products.

Perspective Viewing

Lighting and Shading

Textures

Scene Graphs

Splines

Animation

The format will be 85% lectures and discussions, 15% student presentations.

Project

There may be a course project. This will be determined by mid-semester.

Marks

• Assignments: (5 or 6 programming, 1 presentation) 55%
• Midterm exam 15%
• Final exam. 30%

Lectures

Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 4
Assignment 5
Assignment 6: Topics and sources for 12 minute presentation

OpenGL Resources