CS 3451 Schedule

Schedule

The schedule will very likely change, but it represents the current best estimate of what topics will be covered and when. The MIDTERM will happen the 8th week (Oct 8 or 10), and is initially scheduled for the 8th. It may moved if need be.

We will update it here and post announcements on canvas when things change.

Required readings are in bold. The readings are in the table on the Reading List page, which has the appropriate sections in the Second, Third and Fourth Editions of the textbook.

Any reading in parenthesis are recommended, and you should at least skim them to be familiar with them at a high level (in case you need that material to understand future chapters, or for an assignment).

Week	Date	Topic	Readings	Assignments	Notes
1	Aug 20	Introduction to Class, Typescript, VS Code, Github, and Node, oh my	ch 1	A0: Intro, out	1-intro.pptx 1-intro.pdf
	22	Intro cont’d
2	Aug 27	2D & 3D transformation, CSS3 transforms	Transformations, (review math in Chapter 2 as needed), Matrices		3-matrices.pptx 3-matrices.pdf
	29	Projection, Viewing	View&Project	A0 in Wed 11:59pm	4-viewing.pptx 4-viewing.pdf
3	Sept 3	Scene Graphs (w/ CSS3 3D objects)	Quaternions	A1: Transforms with CSS3, out
	Sept 5	Raster displays, LCDs	Pixels, LCD’s	A1b: Animated Scene, out
4	Sept 10	Line and Polygon Drawing	Lines		6-hardware.pptx 6-hardware.pdf Prof@Seattle
	12	Hidden surfaces	Hidden Surfaces	A1 (first 2 parts) in
5	Sept 17	Intro to WebGL		A1b (third part of A1) in	8-webgl.pptx 8-webgl.pdf
	19	GPU Programming and Shading	GPU, Shading	A2: Animated WebGL Scene, out	9-basicillumination.pptx 9-basicillumination.pdf
6	Sept 24	GPU Programming, Shading and Texturing	GPU, Texture Mapping (1)		10-BasicTexturing.pdf
	26	no class
7	Oct 1	Ray Tracing	Ray Tracing		11-raytracing1.pptx 11-raytracing1.pdf
	3	Ray Tracing	Ray Tracing	A2 in, Friday Oct 4, 11:59pm
8	Oct 8	MIDTERM			Prof No Office Hours
	10	Distribution Ray Tracing, Shadows	Ray Tracing	12-raytracing2.pptx 12-raytracing2.pdf A3: Ray Tracing, out
9	Oct 15	FALL BREAK	HOLIDAY
	17	Distribution Ray Tracing, Shadows
10	Oct 22	Texture, Bump, Environment Maps	Texture Mapping		Prof@UIST
	24	Polygonal modeling and data structures, Triangle Meshes, topology	(2019SLIDESTriangleMeshes.pdf)	A3 in (Sunday 27th)	Drop Deadline (Oct 26)
11	Oct 29	Polygonal modeling and data structures, Triangle Meshes, topology	(15Na.pdf) (15Nb.pdf) (meshProcessing.pdf)
	31	Shadow Mapping	Shadow Maps	A4: Mesh Subdivision, out 14-shadows.pdf
12	Nov 5	Light and Color	Color	17-colorvision.pdf
	7	Interaction and picking, More Scene Graphs, UI Software, Performance
13	Nov 12	Interaction and picking, More Scene Graphs, UI Software, Performance		A4 in (Monday 11th)
	14	Guest Lecture: Marlon West, Head of Effects Animation on FROZEN, MOANA, FROZEN 2		A5: Interactive Scene with Three.js, out
14	Nov 19	Curves and Surfaces	Curves
	21	Curves and Surfaces	Curves
15	Nov 26	Pulling it together: Unity engine		A5 in (Tuesday)
	28	Thanksgiving	HOLIDAY
16	Dec 3	TBA
17	Dec 12	FINAL EXAM	11:20 - 2:10