Class activities will be recorded here.

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

Week 1 : August 25 - August 31

• 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 : September 1 - September 7

• 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 8 - September 14

• Tuesday

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

  Thursday

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

Week 4 : September 15 - September 21

• Tuesday

  Shooting Rays and Ray Sphere Intersection (pdf)
  Generating rays from pixels using our camera model and also efficicent ray sphere intersection

  Thursday

  Introduction to Color and Illumination (pdf)
  Introduction to color, and also basics of ambient and diffuse illumination

Week 5 : September 22 - September 28

• Tuesday

  GTAs avaialbe for one-on-one questions
  No lecture this day, the GTAs will be available for a study hall format review in preperation for the Midterm
  Here is a topic review sheet for Midterm 1

  Thursday

  Midterm 1
  Midterm is in class using CANVAS

Week 6 : September 29 - October 5

• Tuesday

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

  Thursday

  SageMath Illumination Illustrations (pdf)
  A series of examples all based upon SageMath notebook cs410lec08n01

Week 7 : October 6 - October 12

• Tuesday

  A Bit More Color (pdf)
  Human perception of color, CIE 1931 XYZ color space and Chromaticity, tranparency, and HDR color

  Thursday

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

Week 8 : October 13 - October 19

• Tuesday

  Recursive Ray Tracing Continued

  Thursday

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

Week 9 : October 20 - October 26

• 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 10 : October 27 - November 2

• Tuesday

  Monte Carlo Ray Tracing (pdf)
  Guest lecture by Ben Sattelberg presenting a more modern and visually realistic approach to Ray Tracing

  Thursday

  Polygon Shading (pdf)
  Shading models both for the projection pipeline and also for smoothing ray traced objects

Week 11 : November 3 - November 9

• Tuesday

  Midterm 2 Review
  Today's lecture will be a student initiated review
  Here is a topic review sheet for Midterm 2

  Thursday

  Midterm 2

Week 12 : November 10 - November 16

• Tuesday

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

  Thursday

  Refraction Take Two (Video only, no live lecture) (pdf)
  Notes and video are available but lecture is cancelled: the instructor is sick
  Here is a recorded from November 14, 2017 essentially covering today's material

Week 13 : November 17 - November 23

• Tuesday

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

  Thursday

  Loose ends including Thin Lens Ray Tracing (pdf)
  Reflections on Debugging, pseudo-depth, thin lens models and the 6 DOF transform

Week 14 : November 24 - November 30

• Tuesday

  Thanksgiving Break

  Thursday

  Thanksgiving Break

Week 15 : December 1 - December 7

• Tuesday

  Hermite and Bezier Curves (pdf)
  An introduction to bicubic curves starting with Hermite and moving to Bezier
  The first 25 minutes of video on this lecture has no sound. Link below may help.
  Here is a version of this lecture from CS 410 in 2018

  Thursday

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

Week 16 : December 8 - December 14

• Tuesday

  Beyond Graphics: Computer Vision (pdf)
  An introduction to topics in Computer Vision
  There is a PowerPoint file version of the lecture available to students through Canvas

  Thursday

  Review in Advance of the Final Exam
  Comprehensive semester review. Likely to emphasize last third of the semester in this review but do not forget topics from earlier
  Here is the topic review sheet for the last third of the semester
  As a convenience, here are all 3 review sheets in one zip file

Week 17 : December 18 .

• Wednesday

  Final Exam from 9:40 to 11:40 AM