Computer Science Department

CS510

Computer Graphics

Spring 1999


Course Plan

The following is a complete schedule for the course. Here you will find links to the lecture notes as they become available. The related readings are also shown. Many of the Lectures also have associated Maple Worksheets: these can be found on the resources page.

This is a tentative schedule and so expect changes!

Month/Week/Day Lec. Lectures: links to full page & six/page Readings  Assign.
Jan 1 19 1 Introduction L1      
21 2 Shading Models - Phong & Gouraud L2 Hearn 14-(1-5)  
2 26 3 Ray Tracing - Basic Algorithm L3 Hearn 13-(1-10),14-6  
28 4 Ray Tracing - Intersections L4 Hearn 14-6  
Feb 3 2 5 Ray Tracing - Antialising L5 Hearn  14-6  
4 6  Solid Modeling L6 Hearn 10-(1-5,14-17)  
4 9 7 Ray Tracing - Wrap Up L7      
11 8 Color & Color Models L8 Hearn 15  
5 16 9 Introduction to Computer Vision L9 Trucco 1-*  
18 10 Acquiring Digital Images L10 Trucco 2-*  
6 23 11 Aquiring Images Continued   Trucco 3-*  
25 12 Digital Images, Convolution & Noise L11 Trucco 10-(1,4)  
Mar 7 2 13 Digital Images, Convolution continued   Trucco 10-(1,4)  Ray Tracer
4 14 Midterm        
  9   Spring Break        
11   Spring Break        
8 16 15 Using Color (Bruce Draper) L15      
18 16 Basic Features (UMass Notes) L16 Trucco 4-(1-3)   
9 23 17 Image Features, Hough Transform L17 Trucco 5-(1,2)  
25 18 Burns Line Extraction L18 Trucco 5-3  Proj. Prop
10 30 19 Burns Line Extraction (cont) L19 Trucco 5-5  
Apr 1 20 Recognition - Eigenspaces L20 Trucco 10-(1,2)  
11 6 21 Recognition - Eigenspaces (Continued) L21 Trucco 10-3  
8 22 Recognition - Eigenspaces (Continued) L22 Trucco 10-6,11-(1,2)  
12 13 23 Combining Pose & Matching L23 Beveridge    
15 24 Recognition, Tree Search & Invariants L24 Trucco 10-2   
13 20 25 Rcognition Tree Search (Continued) L25 Hearn 10-(7-13)  
22 26 Modeling, Bicubic Surfaces L26 Hearn 10-(7-13)  Burns
14 27 27 Modeling, Bezier Surfaces L27 Hearn 14-9  
29 28 Modeling, Texture Mapping L28 Hearn 14-7  
May 15 4 29 Render Match Refine Approach   Stevens  TBD  
6 30 (Cancelled)        Projects
Saturday 8   10:30AM - 12:30AM (Project Presentations)        
   Final  12    11:20AM to 1:20PM        


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