Computer Graphics
(601.457/657)

General Information Textbooks Coursework Submissions Course Outline Syllabus

General Information

Professor
- Misha Kazhdan (webpage, e-mail)
  - Office Hours: Wednesdays 12-1 @ Malone 229
Teaching/Course Assistants Office Hours
- Hongyi Liu: Wednesdays 3-5pm @ Malone 216
- Zejun Ma: Thursdays 11-12pm and 5:30-6:30pm @ Malone 216
- Aryavrat Gupta: Tuesdays 4:30-5:30pm @ Malone 216
- Swarali Mahimkar: Mondays 10-11am @ Malone 216
Contacting Each Other
- Piazza
Time and Location
- MWF 11:00-11:50 @ Hodson 311
Prerequisites
- Intermediate Programming
- Data Structures
- Linear Algebra

Textbooks

Supplemental Textbooks
- Computer Graphics, C Version (2nd Edition),
  Donald Hearn and M. Pauline Baker,
  Prentice Hall, 1997, ISBN: 0135309247
- Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition),
  James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, and John F. Hughes,
  Addison-Wesley 1995, ISBN: 0201848406
- Fundamentals of Computer Graphics,
  Peter Shirley,
  A. K. Peters Ltd., 2002, ISBN: 1568811241
- OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL,
  Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, and Mason Woo,
  Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN: 0201461382

Coursework

Exams (30%)
- Exam 1: 3/03/25
- Exam 2: 4/25/25
Assignments (60%)
- Assignment #1: Image Processing (Due 2/15/25 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #2: Ray Tracing (Due 3/20/25 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #3: OpenGL Rendering (Due 4/14/25 @ 11:59pm)
- Assignment #4: Keyframe Animation (Due TBD @ 11:59pm)
Class Participation (10%)

Submissions

Assignments should be submitted via Gradescope in Canvas:
- Assignments are required to compile in Gradescope autograders. It is your responsibility to make sure your submission compiles on Gradescope. Submissions that does not meet this requirement will receive a 50% deduction on the final result when we regrade manually.
  The Gradescope autograder is nested in Ubuntu. We recommend trying to submit early to see if the compilation passes. If you have questions you can reach out on piazza.
- For each assignment you will need to submit the code, a write-up, and an art contest submission folder if you participate in the art contest. Each assignment will specify it's format. Please check detailed information for each assignment. Please carefully review the submission details for each assignment before submitting.
- Submission to the regular submission should include a write-up named <jhed-id>.pdf (.pdf format is recommended, but you can also use .html or other text formats) describing what was implemented and optionally the images of the results. Included in the write up should be:
  - Name
  - JHED ID
  - Compiler / Environment / Platform used
  - Number of late days used
  - Description of the parts of the assignment that have been fully implemented, partially implemented, or left un-implemented. This can be a single sentence for each functionality. If there are things that you would like to note about your code, please note them here. Optionally you can include your results for each functionality. When the implementation is partially correct/working, this can help you to get partial grades back.
- If you are submitting the art contest, briefly describe what you did in the write-up. The assignments are presented so that implementing the necessary code can be done completely within the *.todo.* files. Please restrict your coding to these sections. For some submissions we only accept *.todo.* files and remember to make sure your submission compiles on Gradescope.

Course Outline

	Date	Subject	Related Reading	Video
Week 1	1/22/25	Intro	Syllabus	video
Week 1	1/24/25	Image Processing		video
Week 2	1/27/25	Image Filtering, Warping, and Morphing	[Beier and Neely, '92]	video
	1/29/25	Image Sampling		video
	1/31/25	3D Rendering and Ray Casting		video
Week 3	2/03/25	Accelerated Ray Casting		video
	2/05/25	Direct Illumination		video
	2/07/25	LAB
Week 4	2/10/25	Indirect Illumination		video
	2/12/25	Modeling Transformations		video
	2/14/25	Scene Graphs and Barycentric Coordinates		video
Week 5	2/17/25	Functors etc. in C++ and Assignment 2		video
	2/19/25	3D Polygon Rendering Pipeline		video
	2/21/25	Scan Conversion		video
Week 6	2/24/25	Texture Mapping		video
	2/26/25	Texture Synthesis	[Perlin, '85], [Efros and Leung, '99], [Efros and Freeman, '01], [Cohen et al., '03]	video
	2/28/25	LAB
Week 7	3/03/25	Midterm
	3/05/25	Radiosity		video
	3/07/25	3D Object Represenation; (Loop) Subdivision Surfaces	Zorin and Schröder (2000)	video
Week 8	3/10/25	Representing Meshes; Parametric Curves	Baumgart (1975)	video
	3/12/25	Parametric Curves		video
	3/14/25	Class Cancelled: Purim
	3/17/25	Spring Break
	3/19/25
	3/23/25
Week 9	3/26/25	Parametric Surfaces	[Fowler et al., '92]	video
	3/28/25	Modeling		video
	3/31/25	OpenGL Review	LAB
Week 10	4/02/25
	4/04/25
	4/06/25
Week 11	4/09/25
	4/11/25
	4/13/25	LAB
Week 12	4/14/25	Class Cancelled: Passover
	4/16/25
	4/18/25
Week 13	4/21/25
	4/23/25
	4/25/25	Midterm
Week 14	4/28/25	LAB

Computer Graphics (601.457/657)

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Textbooks

Coursework

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Course Outline

Computer Graphics
(601.457/657)