15-463 Computer Graphics 2 - Administrative Info

Professor: Paul Heckbert

• Office: Doherty Hall 4301A
• Email: ph@cs.cmu.edu
• Office Hours: by appointment (send email)

• Office: Wean 5123
• Email: andrewb@cs.cmu.edu
• Office Hours: Thu 12-1

• Office: Doherty Hall 4309, phone 8-7884
• Email: cleah@cs.cmu.edu

Electronic Information

The class web page
/afs/andrew/scs/cs/15-463/pub/www/463.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/scs/cs/15-463/pub/www/463.html
Slides for some notes on notes page. Print & take notes on them. There will be some printed handouts (papers).

Newsgroup: cmu.cs.class.cs463.

/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/scs/cs/15-463/, which we call classdir. You get a directory in classdir/students. Public files are in classdir/pub.

Prerequisites

• 15-462: Computer Graphics 1, or equivalent

Required Text

• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition in C. Foley et al.

Other Texts and Sources

• OpenGL Programming Guide, 2nd Edition, Neider et al.
• Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with OpenGL, Angel.
• Digital Image Processing, Gonzalez and Woods.
• Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques, Watt and Watt.
• An Introduction To Ray Tracing, Glassner.
• Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics, Rogers & Adams.
• Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics, Rogers.

Grading Policies

• Midterm 13%
• Final 21%
• Programming Assignments 48 %
  • P1: morph
  • P2: modeling with subdivision surfaces
  • P3: (yet to be determined)
  • P4: advanced ray tracing
• Written Assignments 18%
  two or three of these

Late penalty on assignments: 20% per CMU class day. Maple OK.

Assignments and Homework

There will be two kinds of assignments: Programming assignments and written homeworks.

Supported: Sun Sparcs, SGI's Linux PC's.

Write the core code yourself. Peripheral libraries may be copied. Talk to professor if in doubt. Software libraries we will use: Xforms (user interface library), OpenGL (3D graphics library), Xlib (X window system), and SVL (vector/matrix library). Support code for some assignments is written in C, for others, it is written in C++.