Computer Science Department, CSU

CS510: Computer Graphics --- Spring '97

What's New?

Help with Lab4. Here is my color output for new view and sceneb files.
Saturday meeting moved to 2:00 PM in Room 100, USC.
Lab4 now due May 15th at Noon!
Schedule for project presentations. If you are not listed, see me or send e-mail to me saying which open time slot you would like.
Lab4 assignment
MPEG animations of some Lab3 scenes, done by a previous CS510 student.
Below in Additional Information is a link to a file of Bezier control points for a teapot.

Course Description

In CS510, the focus is on computer graphics techniques for the generation of realistic images using techniques for defining surfaces and for calculating lighting and shading effects. Students will write programs to render 3D objects using techniques ranging from simple flat shading to complex ray-shading. User-interface design with X-windows will be introduced. We will also briefly discuss programming with the OpenGL graphics library and Java.

Look What You Can Do in CS510!

One of the programming assignments in CS510 is to code your own ray-tracing program. Here is what your result will look like. For more examples of ray-traced images from CS510 students, check out our gallery .

Important Information

Meets: M/W/F, 9:00-9:50 AM, 100 USC.
Taught by: Chuck Anderson, anderson@cs.colostate.edu
- Phone: 970-491-7491. FAX: 970-491-2466
- Office Hours: 225 USC, M/W/F, 2:00--3:00 PM, or by appointment
Text:
- Foley, van Dam, Feiner, Hughes, and Phillips
  Introduction to Computer Graphics
  (Addison-Wesley, 1994), ISBN 0-201-60921-5
- Errata list for the textbook
Prerequisites for CS510
Class handouts, assignments, GUI code, and exam topics
Syllabus, containing details of schedule, grading, and other procedures
The Computer Science Department's Student Information Sheet

Additional Information That May Be Helpful

Control points for a teapot, given as 4x4 matrices of control points for Bezier patches.
Java: Examples of 3D-to-2D projections in Java. Check out these examples. After they start, hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse to change the viewpoint.
- example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4.
X Window/Motif Tutorial from Iftech.com
X Window and Motif tutorial, by David Marshall
Tutorials on Xlib, Xt, and Xm libraries, and Java and JavaScript.
Examples of motif programs written by Douglas Young and explained in his book The X Window System Programming and Applicatinso with Xt: OSF/MOTIF Edition
Sun's Tcl/Tk page
My page that contains an example of running a tcl/tk program as an applet.
John Ousterhout's page of Tcl/Tk resources, including links to code from his book.
CSU's Computer Visualization Laboratory
openGL page at SGI.
openGL Documentation, at Digital.
Graphics Sites on the WWW
Rhino, a NURBS modeling tool for Windows 95/NT. Beta free for downloading.

anderson@cs.colostate.edu