CSC418/2504 Computer Graphics - Fall 2011

Lectures

• November 30: Guest lecture by Professor Hertzmann on animation principles and research topics.
  
• November 23: Global illumination, distribution ray tracing, photon mapping, path tracing. Slides.
  
• November 16: Free form deformations, skeletal animation (forward and inverse kinematics), facial animation (blend shapes), motion capture, physical simulation, AI-behavior, particle systems. Slides.
  
• November 9: Animation overview, keyframing, polynomial interpolation, Catmull-Rom splines, rotation interpolation (quaternions). No slides.
  
• November 2: Shading, ray tracing (shadows, reflection), texture mapping. Slides.
  
• October 27: Culling, rasterization, z-buffer, ray tracing. Slides.
  
• October 19: Painters algorithm, BSP, clipping. Slides.
  
• October 12: Orthographic and perspective transformation and projection. Slides.
  
• October 5: 3D transformations, rendering overview, 3D viewing. Slides.
  
• September 28: Homogeneous coordinates, coordinate-free geometry, 3D geometric primitives. Slides.
  
• September 21: 2D curves, 2D transformations. Slides.
  
• September 14: Computer Graphics overview, images, color, line rasterization, course overview (dates, requirements, etc.) Slides.