Class activities will be recorded here.

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

Week 1 : August 23 - August 29

• Tuesday

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

  Thursday

  Geometry Basics (pdf)
  A mix of familiar and sometimes neglected concepts needed to better understand geometry in the context of graphics

Week 2 : August 30 - September 5

• Tuesday

  2D Transformations (pdf)
  Geometric transformations in 2D emphasizing dot product as projection onto basis vectors, homogeneous coordinates and composition

  Thursday

  3D Transformations (pdf)
  Extending homogeneous transformations into 3D with an emphasis on rotation and the axis angle specification

Week 3 : September 6 - September 12

• Tuesday

  First introduction to 3D Models (pdf)
  A basic introduction to representing, viewing and manipulating 3D polygonal models with examples in Blender

  Thursday

  Pinhole Camera and View Volumes (pdf)
  Placing a Camera in a World Coordinate System Tailored to Ray Tracing and emphasizing the View Volume

Week 4 : September 13 - September 19

• Tuesday

  Shooting Rays (pdf)
  What is a ray and how do rays get generated from pixels using our camera model

  Thursday

  Ray Sphere Intersection (pdf)
  Ray Sphere intersection the general way and the fast way

Week 5 : September 20 - September 26

• Tuesday

  Ray Sphere Continued and starting Color (pdf)
  Wrapping up Ray Sphere intersection and just a small bit of color

  Thursday

  Color Continued
  Continuation of the lecture on Color Basics

Week 6 : September 27 - October 3

• Tuesday

  Midterm 1
  Midterm Exam offered through CANVAS during normal lecture time

  Thursday

  Lighting an Ojbect (pdf)
  How to light a scene with ambient and diffuse illumination with SageMath Illustrations

  Friday

  Makeup Lecture 3:30 to 4:45: A Bit More Color (pdf)
  Human perception of color, CIE 1931 XYZ color space and Chromaticity, tranparency, and HDR color

Week 7 : October 4 - October 10

• Tuesday

  2D Line Intersection then Ray Triangle Intersection (pdf)
  Efficient ray triangle intersection with introduction first to 2D parametric line intersection

  Thursday

  Lecture cancelled

Week 8 : October 11 - October 17

• Tuesday

  Phong Reflection and Recursive Relfection (pdf)
  Light sources reflect on object surfaces and objects may reflect upon each other

  Thursday

  Interactive SageMath Review
  Using a version of last lecture's worksheet we review 25 elements of how rendering works

Week 9 : October 18 - October 24

• Tuesday

  Polygon Shading (pdf)
  Shading models both and their relationship to surface normals

  Thursday

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

Week 10 : October 25 - October 31

• Tuesday

  Projection Pipeline (pdf)
  The Perspective Projection Pipeline including SageMath full implementation with Canonical View Volume

  Thursday

  Clipping, Rasterization and Z-Buffering (pdf)
  Key steps of clipping away not-in-view polygon parts then painting the remainder to pixels with a Z-buffer

Week 11 : November 1 - November 7

• Tuesday

  Z-Buffer Continued and PPP Review
  Finish Z-Buffer Presentation and move to annotated PPP Sagemath

  Thursday

  Midterm 2

Week 12 : November 8 - November 14

• Tuesday

  Recursive Ray Tracing with Refraction (pdf)
  Seeing through objects and how light bends

  Thursday

  Refraction Take Two
  Refraction continued with careful walkthrough of SageMath example

Week 13 : November 15 - November 21

• Tuesday

  Smoothing Revisited and Ray Trace Extensions (pdf)
  Smooting of polygons revisited in SageMath and also some ray tracing extensions

  Thursday

  Hermite and Bezier Curves (pdf)
  An introduction to bicubic curves starting with Hermite and moving to Bezier

Week 14 : November 22 - November 28

• Tuesday

  Thanksgiving Break

  Thursday

  Thanksgiving Break

Week 15 : November 29 - December 5

• Tuesday

  Bicubic Surfaces and B-Splines (pdf)
  From parametric curves to surfaces, the Bezier Surface Patch, then onto B-splines

  Thursday

  Texture Mapping (pdf)
  Applying images to surface to enhance visual realism

Week 16 : December 6 - December 12

• Tuesday

  Monte Carlo Ray Tracing (pdf)
  Glimpsing a more modern and computationally truly demanding approach to rendering.

  Thursday

  Beyond Graphics: Computer Vision (pdf)
  A CSU Centric introduction to topics in Computer Vision

Week 17 : December 16th (Final)

• Wednesday

  Final Exam from 2:00 to 4:00 PM
  Exam online through CANVAS opening at the designated start time
  Here is a topic review guide for CS410