CS488/688: Introduction to Computer Graphics

Information for Winter 2012

Please see the CS488/688 home page for additional information that does not normally change from term to term.

Instructor:

Abdallah Rababah; DC3519, Office Hours: MWF 12:30-1:30.

Teaching Assistants:

Tiffany Inglis; DC 2303, Office Hours: Monday 3-4.
Alex Pytel; DC 2303, Office Hours: Thursday 1030-1130.
Grace Yao; DC 2303, Office Hours: TBA.

Standard TA Office Hours:

(see above).

Extra Office Hours Associated with Assignment Deadlines:

.

Lecture Room and Times:

MC4060, 1:30-2:20 MWF.

Lab Room:

MC3007

Course Data Directory:

/u/gr/cs488

Texts:

Required:

• CS488/688 Lecture Notes, hardcopy available at DC Library Graphics.
• Hearn, Baker and Carithers, Computer Graphics with Open GL , Prentice Hall.

Optional, but useful:

• Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner , Morgan Kaufmann.
• Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, Mason Woo, OpenGL Architecture Review Board, OpenGL Programming Guide, Addison Wesley (and Silicon Graphics), (Available online on the SGI machines).
• Watt and Policarpo, 3D Games, Addison Wesley, 2001. (on reserve at the Dana Porter Library)

Important Dates and Assignment Deadlines:

Code must not be timestamped later than 1:30 on the due date.
Documentation may be submitted in the first five minutes of either section.

Assignment 0:

Monday, January 9th [Week 2]

Assignment 1:

Wednesday, January 18th [Week 3]

Assignment 2:

Wednesday, February 1st [Week 5]

Assignment 3:

Wednesday, February 15th [Week 7]

Midterm:

Wednesday, February 29th [Week 8]

Assignment 5a (proposal):

Monday, March 5th [Week 9]

Assignment 4:

Friday, March 9th [Week 9]

Assignment 5b (corrected proposal):

Wednesday, March 14th [Week 10]

Assignment 5c (project):

Monday, April 2nd [Week 13]

Project Demonstrations:

TBA [Week 13]

Final:

TBA

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