Official Syllabus (pdf)

Tentative Class Schedule

Student Work from Wi '09

Student Work from Au '08

Student Work from Wi '08

Student Work from Au'03

Previous Student Work

  • Class: MWF 12:30-1:18; DL317
  • Class Newsgroup: cse.course.cis681
  • Class Submit Name: c681aa
  • Instructor:
    Rick Parent; parent@cse
    Office: DL787, 2-0055
    Office hours: MWF 1:30-2:30
  • Grader: Mike Andereck; andereck@cse
    Office: contact the grader
    Office hours: contact the grader
GRADING
  • Labs: 50%
    (10% 10% 15% 15%)
  • Assignment(s): 15%
  • Midterm: 15%
  • Final: 20%

Introduction to Computer Graphics
Winter '09

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
  • we have a new grader for the class - see details on the left panel
  • lab4 has finalized
  • Data can be found here
  • I have to cancel office hours today, Tuesday, Feb. 24. I will be checking email later today, however.
  • Use the 'submit' command under UNIX to submit your lab. Do 'man submit' to find out about it if you don't know how to use it. Note that everytime you do a submit, it wipes out everything that was previously submitted - it's not accumulative.
NOTES:
  • In this course, you program your own ray tracer, including illumination modeling, texture mapping, object modeling.
  • This course and 782, the two courses on rendering, have recently been redesigned.
  • Undergraduates should take CIS581 (CIS694G) first (mainly because 581 contains more immediately-useful material and makes more sense if you end up taking only one course in graphics).
  • This is the entry course for graphics for graduate students.
  • Also taught this quarter is CSE682: Computer Animation - Design and Production

TEXT: Realistic Ray Tracing by Peter Shirley

CLASS ATTENDANCE
  • Students are expected to attend class
  • If you miss a class, you are responsible for finding out what material was covered, what announcements were made, and what assignments were made. (Don't come to me and ask me to present the material to you)
  • When missing a midterm, the final, or lab deadline, in order to avoid receiving a grade of zero, you have to either
      have received prior permission from the instructor with written documentation or,
    • present written documentation of a unavoidable, unanticipated emergency situation.
    Oversleeping does not qualify as a valid excuse.
    Granting an exception to one student is unfair to all the other students who played by the rules.

Notes and Web pages of interest

Last updated 12/27/08