Archive of past announcements
This page stores our past announcements. You might find them useful if you missed classes or have not checked the class web pages for a while.
9/18/07: Welcome to CSE 681!! Our class starts on 9/19/2007. In the first week, I will give you an overview of this course and also computer graphics in general. Please follow the ‘Slides’ link to get the lecture notes.
9/20/07: The first step towards writing a ray tracer is to be able to input a scene. In this class, we use
Open Inventor as the file format for the scenes. I am hoping everyone can make an effort to learn more about reading Open Inventor files by following
9/24/07: This week we will have an overview of Open Inventor and its file format. A detailed information about how to read Open Inventor files can be found in the lab help page.
9/28/07: Lab 1 is out. Please start is as soon as possible since this is your first lab and the learning curve might be a bit steep in the beginning.
10/2: Description of ppm file format and pseudo code for writing a ppm file is available in the lab help page.
10/14: Lab2 is out. Compared to your previous lab, you should feel much more comfortable this time, so, why not start it now!
10/18: Please download the .iv files again from the same location, and use them for your lab2. The files are updated with the necessary materials and lights information. For refraction, you will find objects with non-zero transparency in the files (refraction{1,2,3}.iv and also sphere3t.iv). Images generated from some of the files can be found here.
0/23: Midterm will be on 10/31/07