CS 460/560 Class Notes Introduction to Computer Graphics G. Hill Price

Course syllabus in html format.

Topics

1. Display Devices and Hardware
   1. Hardcopy
   2. Video display devices
   3. Graphics hardware

2. Coordinate Systems

3. Primitives, Transformations and Clipping
   1. Primitives
   2. Clipping
   3. Transformations

4. Window Systems

5. Project Overview
   1. X windows system
   2. X windows programming
      • rubber_band.c source code
      • rubber_band executable
      • rubber_band.c compile command, Solaris
      • rubber_band.c compile command, Linux
      • more X information and examples
   3. OpenGl programming
      • OpenGL Basics
      • draw_points.c Source Code
      • OpenGL Transformations
      • Interesting Program Fragments
      • OpenGL Polygon Mesh Ops
      • OpenGL Compile Command, Solaris
      • PPM P6 from P3 source code
   4. Projects
      • Austerlitz
      • Chancellorsville
      • Guadalcanal
      • Bismarck
      • Little Big Horn
      • Seven Days
      • Shenandoah

6. Colors and Dithering

7. Data Structures for Graphics

8. Curves, Surfaces and Solids
   1. Curves and Surfaces
   2. Solids

9. Hidden Line-Surface Algorithms
   1. Object Precision
      • Depth Sort
      • List Priority Algorithm
      • Area Subdivision
   2. Image Precision
      • Polygon Method
      • Z-buffer
      • Ray Tracing

10. Shadows, Shading and Lighting
    1. Shading
    2. Surface Detail
    3. Transparency

11. Advanced Graphics Concepts
    1. Animation and Fractals
    2. Robotic Vision
    3. 3-D Technologies
    4. Rendering Pipeline
    5. Advanced Graphics Hardware
       • SGI Graphics System handout
       • Sun Graphics System handout

This webpage created by Del Croom and Hill Price
Updated 4/29/2010