Syllabus

11/4	Introduction [PDF] What is Computer Graphics ? Basic Graphics System Basic Raster Graphics Algorithms for Drawing 2D Primitives [PDF] Architecture of a Raster Display Scan Converting Lines Filling Rectangles Filling Polygons Clipping Lines Clipping Polygons Antialiasing
11/11	Geometrical Transformations [PDF] Mathematical Preliminaries 2D Transformations Homogeneous Coordinates and Matrix Representation The Window-to-Viewport Transformation 3D Transformations Quaternions
12/2	Viewing in 3D [PDF] 3D Viewing Process 3D Synthetic Camera Model Specification of an Arbitrary 3D View Parallel Projection Perspective Projection 3D Clipping for Canonical View Volume Visible-Surface Determination [PDF] Back-Face Culling The Depth-Sort Algorithm The z-Buffer Algorithm Visible-Surface Ray Tracing
12/16	Illumination and Shading [PDF] Illumination Models Shading Models for Polygons Surface Detail Shadows Transparency Global Illumination Algorithms Recursive Ray Tracing The Rendering Pipeline
12/23	Curves and Surfaces [PDF] Mathematical Curve Representation Parametric Cubic Curves Parametric Bi-Cubic Surfaces Quadric Surfaces Specialized Modeling Techniques
12/30	Definitions and Data Structures of Meshes [PDF] Graph Mesh Properties of Mesh Triangle Meshes Mesh Data Structures Computer Animation [PDF] What is Animation ? Traditional Animation Key-Frame Animation Hierarchical Modeling Kinematics Free-From Deformation
1/6	Texture Mapping [PDF] Texture Mapping Texture Aliasing MIPmaps Environment Maps Bump Mapping Displacement Mapping Shadow Maps Solid Textures

Textbooks

• Peter Shirley, Michael Ashikhmin, Michael Gleicher, Stephen Marschner, Erik Reinhard, Kelvin Sung, William Thompson, and Peter Willemsen. Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, 2nd. ed., A K Peters, 2005.
• James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes, and Richard L. Phillips. Introduction to Computer Graphics, Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Reference

• Edward Angel. Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with OpenGL™, 3rd. ed., Addison-Wesley, 2002.
• James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, and John F. Hughes. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1995.
• Alan Watt. 3D Computer Graphics, 3rd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1999.
• Dave Shreiner, Mason Woo, Jackie Neider, and Tom Davis. OpenGL® Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, ver. 2, 5th. ed., Addison-Wesley, 2005.

Grade Measurement

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Pre-courses (better-to-have)

Linear Algebra
Data Structures
Algorithms