CSC418/2504 Computer Graphics - Fall 2011

Announcements

• The results are in. Congratulations to the winners of the coveted Wooden Monkey award! I will soon be posting the animations and images to the course website.
  
  1st place Animation: Ani Tumanyan and Rebecca Dreezer
  2nd place Animation: Sheema Khan and Meiyi Li
  3rd place Tie Animation: Tianyin Su and Gregory Schwartzman
  3rd place Tie Animation: ChenXing Zhao   
  
  1st place Ray Tracing: William Gelhar
  2nd place Ray Tracing: Sean Sutherland
  3rd place Ray Tracing: Rinat Abdrashitov and Emilie Guy
  Honorable Mention Ray Tracing: Peijing Bill Dai and Heng Xu
  
  
• The only exam aid allowed for the final is a basic (non-programmable) calculator. No other aids, including cellphones, will be allowed (even if they're used just to tell time). The Faculty of Arts and Science is very strict about unauthorized aids at final exams. The consequences can be significant: students may lose not just the aid but also the exam, whether or not they intended to use the unauthorized aid to cheat.
  
• I will be holding office hours Thursday Dec 8, 6-7pm in BA2200.
  
• Solutions to A2 are posted in the Assignments section.
  
• Here's a cool illustration of how Bezier curves are generated using the Casteljau algorithm (lecture notes page 104). Make sure you also know about the direct generation method using Bernstein basis functions (lecture notes page 105).
  
• Be sure to monitor the Bulletin Board for questions and general advice regarding A3.
  
• The final lecture, November 30, will be given by Professor Aaron Hertzmann starting at 7pm and will cover special topics in character animation. Be sure to attend! In preparation, please read this paper.
  
• Take a look at the Wooden Monkey Hall of Fame to see previous years' A3 submissions.
  
• The Chair of Graduate Admissions, Graeme Hirst, would like to remind you that applications for admission to the computer science graduate program close in just one month, on 8 December, and that a successful application is not something that can be put together at the last minute. You can go to the DCS website for more information and links to the online application form (look for Information for Prospective Graduate Students).
  
• Assignment 3 is now posted.
  
• Chung-Lin will be holding the office hour today, Oct 27, from 4-5pm in BA2200 (help center).
  
• Slides from Chung-Lin's tutorial on OpenGL cameras and lighting. Slides.
  
• I've removed Exercise 3 from A2 and scaled the mark weights up approximately proportionately so that they add up to 50. The updated handout is available for download in the Assignments section.
  
• A reminder that the course midterm will be held tomorrow, October 19, at 6pm in the usual tutorial/lecture room (BA 1230). Please plan to be in the room and seated before 6:10, at which time the exam will begin. It is 50 minutes long. The list of possible topics is everything covered in the class until last week's lecture, including the general overview of Computer Graphics covered in the first lecture. A complete list of topics can be found in the Lectures Section.
  
• There was a typo in the numbering of the items for the programming part of A2. This is now fixed.
  
• You may collect your marked written part of A1 from the TA after 12pm today (Fri Oct 14). You may find her office on the 5th floor of Bahen within DGP Lab. Ask for Hanieh Bastani.
  
• Solutions to Assignment 1 are now posted in the Assignments section
  
• Assignment 2 is now posted.
  
• I will be at the university Sunday Oct. 2 from 2 to 3pm in BA 2200 if you'd like to stop by with questions about A1.
  
• Updated CDF submission instructions for graduate students. Please see Assignments section.
  
• Source code for example created by Xavier during Tutorial 2: tut2.tgz
  
• Instructions for submitting the programming part of A1 on CDF have been added in the Assignments section.
  
• Office hours are now available Thursdays 6-7 pm in BA2200. Please email me if you plan to attend since I will only be there if there is interest.