Instructor:
Ross Beveridge
Office: 348 CS Building
Office Hours: Tue 10-11AM Thur 9-10AM
Email: Ross.Beveridge@colostate.edu
GTA:
Gururaj Mulay
Office: CSB 120
Office Hours: Mon 8-10AM Fri 8-10PM
Email: gururaj.mulay@gmail.com
Lecture Time and Place:
3:30-4:45, Tue, Thur, ECE 100

CS 410 teaches students how to program a computer to generate photo-realistic images. The general idea is that given a scene model, a sensor model and a viewpoint, one should be able to create the same image that a camera would for that scene and viewpoint. Scene models include 3D object models and light sources. Objects models are composed of surfaces, and include both geometry (where is the surface?) and material properties (what is it made of? What color is it?).

This course will emphasize geometric objects and transformations, perspective projections, lighting and reflectance models, shading models, and 3D curves and surfaces. Students will design and implement a ray tracing program from scratch, thereby becoming intimately familiar with the sensor, lighting and object models described above. Perhaps most importantly, students may come to more fully appreciate the power of linear algebra.

News:
Grades are posted and the semester is at a gratifying close. Thanks to All (Ross 12/15/17)

The Caged Sphere logo originally ray traced by Charlie Ross.