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Dep. of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
ICCS 119
2366 Main Mall
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4
CANADA

Phone: 1-604-822-4368
Email: lsigal at cs.ubc.ca

Weeks 1-5 of the course were taught by Cathy J. Jansen. Please consult the UTSC intranet for the materials distributed during those 5 weeks.

Date	Topic	Reading	Lecture	Lecture Notes	Assignments
Week 1	Instructor: Cathy
Mon, Sept 10	Introduction: raster display, line drawing	3.1 - 3.5
Mon, Sept 10	Tutorial: Scan Conversion (lines and triangles)	3.1 - 3.5
Wed, Sept 12	2D polygons, circle, ellipse	2.5 - 2.6
Week 2
Mon, Sept 17	2D Transforms (rigid, conform, affine)	6.1
Mon, Sept 17	Tutorial: C++, OpenGL
Wed, Sept 19	2D Transforms, Homogeneous coordinates	2.4, 6.3
Week 3
Mon, Sept 24	Hierarchical models
Mon, Sept 24	Tutorial: Basic animation and polygonal meshes
Wed, Sept 26	Coordinate-free geometry
Week 4
Mon, Oct 1	3D Surfaces: planes, bilinear patch, surface of revolution	2.9-2.11, 13.1
Mon, Oct 1	Tutorial: Transformation Hierarchies, Assignment 1
Wed, Oct 3	Graphics Pipeline, the life of a polygon.
Week 5
Mon, Oct 8	Thanksgiving: no classes
Mon, Oct 8	Tutorial: Office Hour for Assignment 1
Wed, Oct 10	Class canceled

Date	Topic	Reading	Lecture	Lecture Notes	Assignments
Week 6
Mon, Oct 15	3D Transformations, camera models	7.2-7.3	Slides	Section 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 in LN5 Section 6.1, 6.2 in LN6	A1 Prog. In
Mon, Oct 15	Tutorial: surface-of-revolution, rotation about arbitrary axis			Section 5.6, 5.9 in LN5	A2 Out A2 Starter Code A2 test file sor.txt
Wed, Oct 17	Viewer coordinates, perspective and orthographic projections, pseudodepth	7.3–7.5	Slides	Section 6.3-6.9 in LN6 Camera transforms (OpenGL FAQ)
Week 7
Mon, Oct 22	Pseudodepth (cont.), Visibility: HSR, z-buffer, BSP Trees	8.1–8.2	Slides	Section 6.9 in LN6 Sections 7.1-7.5 in LN7	A1 Solutions
Mon, Oct 22	Tutorial: Assignment 1 soulutions, Life of a triangle				A1 Theory Stats Mean: 37.7/50 Std: 6.48
Wed, Oct 24	Lighting/Reflection: Phong model, ambient, diffuse, specular reflectance	9.1–9.2	Slides	LN8
Wed, Oct 24	Mid-term, 5:15-6:30 pm in HW-214 (Mid-term will be based on material covered up to and including Monday's class, Oct 22nd) To study for the mid-term consult Assignments 1 and 2, Lecture Notes 1-6, Lecture Slides.			Extra office hour on Wed. 12-1pm in my office (SW625A) Last year's midterm (note that some of the material on last year's midterm we did not yet cover, so it will not be on the midterm this year).	Midterms Stats Mean: 59% Std: 19 Midterm Solutions
Week 8
Mon, Oct 29	Lighting/Reflection: Interpolative shading	9.1–9.2; 2.10– 2.11, 3.6	Slides	LN9
Mon, Oct 29	Tutorial: Background and OpenGL for A2
Wed, Oct 31	Lighting/Reflection: Texture Mapping	9.2;11.1–11.4	Slides	LN10 Wikipedia: Texture Mapping Wikipedia: Procedural Textures Wikipedia: Mip-mapping	A2 Theory In
Week 9
Mon, Nov 5	Introduction to Ray Tracing: object intersections and local shading	10.1–10.4	Slides	Sections 11.1-11.3.4 in LN11
Mon, Nov 5	Tutorial: Assignment 2 solutions
Wed, Nov 7	Introduction to Ray Tracing: object intersections, deformed objects, local shading, texture mapping	10.5–10.7	Slides	Sections 11.3.4-11.7.2 in LN11
Fri, Nov 9					A2 Prog. In A3 Prog. Out A3 Starter Code (linux, win32)
Week 10
Mon, Nov 12	Ray Tracing: refractions and shadows Radiometry Itro	10.5–10.7	Slides	Sections 11.7.2-11.7.4 in LN11 Sections 12.1-12.2 in LN12
Mon, Nov 12	Tutorial: Refraction/transmission, ray trace pseudo-code
Wed, Nov 14	Radiometry	19	Slides	Sections 12.3-12.5 in LN12	A3 Theory Out
Week 11
Mon, Nov 19	Ray tracing with full BRDFs and Monte Carlo sampling	14.1–14.4, 24.1–24.2	Slides	LN13	A2 Solutions
Mon, Nov 19	Tutorial:
Wed, Nov 21	Advanced rendering	24.1–24.2	Slides
Fri, Nov 23					A3 Prog. In
Week 12
Mon, Nov 26	Smooth Curves: polynomial interpolation, Bézier curves	15.1–15.5	Slides	LN14	A4 Prog. Out
Mon, Nov 26	Tutorial: Bézier curves and patches	15.6.1		LN14 (part 2) Bézier curve applet (UNC) Bézier curve applet (Brown) Bézier patch applet (Cornell)
Wed, Nov 28	Animation: Key-framing, parametric curves, motion capture, data-driven and physics-based animation	16.1–16.2, 16.4-16.5	Slides	LN15	A3 Theory In
Week 13
Mon, Dec 3	Demo Day				A4 In A3 Solutions
Mon, Dec 3	Tutorial: Final Exam Preparation
Wed, Dec 5	TA office hour, 12-1pm in AA333
Fri, Dec 7	Office hour, 2-3pm in SW625A

Sat, Dec 8	Final Exam, 2:00-5:00 pm in MW120 (Final will be based on all of the material covered in the course) To study for the final consult assignments 1-4 (especially theory), Lecture Notes 1-15 and Lecture Slides			Last year's finals: Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Spring 2006 Radiometry Summary

Leonid Sigal

Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

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