Class activities will be recorded here.

Please consider this a record of past progress and a plan for the time remaining.

Week 1 : August 20 - August 26

• Tuesday

  Introduction (pdf)
  Introduce basic course structure including what will be covered and what will be expected

  Thursday

  2D Geometry (pdf)
  A mix of familiar and sometimes neglected concepts needed to better understand 2D Geometry
  Material roughly tied to Chapters 2, 5 and 6 in the optional Textbook

Week 2 : August 27 - September 2

• Tuesday

  2D Transformations (pdf)
  Geometric transformations in 2D including an introduction to Homogeneous Coordinates.
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

  Thursday

  3D Transformations (pdf)
  Homogeneous Coordinates in 3D including specifically rotation and axis-angle rotation

Week 3 : September 3 - September 9

• Tuesday

  3D Axis Angle Rotation (pdf)
  A 'simple' operation that motivates a lot of what we need for cameras
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

  Thursday

  3D Transformations for a Camera (pdf)
  Placing a Camera in a World Coordinate System Tailored to Ray Tracing
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

Week 4 : September 10 - September 16

• Tuesday

  Ray Casting: Shooting Rays into A Scene (pdf)
  Generating Rays from Pixels and also understanding viewing geometry
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

  Thursday

  Intersection of Parametric Forms (pdf)
  Parametric forms illustrated with line segments including interesection calculation
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

Week 5 : September 17 - September 23

• Tuesday

  Ray Triangle Intersection (pdf)
  Rays from pixels intersecting triangles
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

  Thursday

  Ray Sphere Intersection (pdf)
  Brute force general approach along with a clever faster ray sphere intersection algorithm
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture
  Should students wish we will discuss this review sheet

Week 6 : September 24 - September 30

• Tuesday

  Midterm 1

  Thursday

  Color Beyond Basics (pdf)
  Color Spaces and and encodings including alpha blending

Week 7 : October 1 - October 7

• Tuesday

  Introduction to Illumination (pdf)
  Introduction to illumination including ambient, difffuse and specular

  Thursday

  SageMath Illumination Illustrations (pdf)
  Raycasting to illuminate a sphere with two light sources: connecting renderings to controls
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

Week 8 : October 8 - October 14

• Tuesday

  SageMath Illumination as Recipe (pdf)
  Raycasting to illuminate a sphere: SageMath as working code example of mechanics
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

  Thursday

  Practical 3D Modeling: Sketchup Pro (pdf)
  3D Modeling including material properties illustrated using Sketup Pro and the OBJ format

Week 9 : October 15 - October 21

• Tuesday

  Perspective and Orthographic Projection (pdf)
  The pin hole camera model introduced without ray tracing at the heart

  Thursday

  Projection Pipeline / Scan Conversion (pdf)
  SageMath implementation of pipeline and quick taste of Scan Conversion
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

Week 10 : October 22 - October 28

• Tuesday

  Recursive Ray Tracing (pdf)
  Extending our understanding of ray tracing by allowing objects to reflect on each other.
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

  Thursday

  Illumination and Reflection 1
  Recursive ray tracing example in SageMath reviewing illumination
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

Week 11 : October 29 - November 4

• Tuesday

  Illumination and Reflection 2 (pdf)
  Recursive ray tracing loose ends including specular fix and relfectivity
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

  Thursday

  Midterm 2 Review
  Today's lecture will be a student initiated review
  CS 410, Fall 2017, Second Third of Semester Review Guide

Week 12 : November 5 - November 11

• Tuesday

  Midterm 2

  Thursday

  Recursive Ray Tracing with Refraction (pdf)
  The last big idea of the semester for lighting is semi-transparent objects
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture
  Separate document explaining calcualtion of the refraction ray

Week 13 : November 12 - November 18

• Tuesday

  Reflection and Refraction (pdf)
  A more code centric workup on reflection plus refraction
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

  Thursday

  Hermite and Bezier Curves (pdf)
  An introduction to bicubic curves starting with Hermite and moving to Bezier
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

Week 14 : November 19 - November 25

• Tuesday

  Thanksgiving Break

  Thursday

  Thanksgiving Break

Week 15 : November 26 - December 2

• Tuesday

  Lecture Cancelled
  No lecture on this day

  Thursday

  Lecture Cancelled - HTML5 Drawing Optional Topic
  Review video links and examples for Lectures 5 and 6 from CS410 Fall 2016
  Specifically "Basic 2D Drawing in HTML5" and "More 2D Drawing including Movement"
  You will not be responsible for HTML5 material on the Final Exam

Week 16 : December 3 - December 9

• Tuesday

  Bicubic Surfaces (pdf)
  From curves to surfaces using Bezier Surface Patches
  See the Resources Page for SageMath notebooks that accompany this lecture

  Thursday

  Review in Advance of the Final Exam
  Comprehensive semester review
  Here is the review sheet for the last third of the semester

Week 17 : 13-Dec

• Wednesday

  Final Exam from 2:00 to 4:00 PM