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CMU 15-462/662

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

When We Meet

Mon/Wed 1:30 - 3:00pm (GHC 4215)

Instructors: Kayvon Fatahalian and Keenan Crane

Fall 2015 Schedule

Aug 31 Course Introduction
Sep 2 Drawing a Triangle (+ Introduction to Sampling) Assignment 1 out
Sep 7 No Class (Labor Day Holiday)
Sep 9 Coordinate Spaces and Transforms
Sep 14 Perspective Projection and Texture Mapping
Sep 16 The Rasterization Pipeline (+ Occlusion and Alpha Compositing)
Sep 21 Introduction to Geometry Assignment 1 due Assignment 2 out
Sep 23 Curves, Surfaces and Meshes
Sep 28 Geometry Processing
Sep 30 Geometric Queries
Oct 5 Accelerating Geometric Queries
Oct 7 Measuring Light: Radiometry and Cameras Assignment 2 due Assignment 3 out
Oct 12 Numerical Integration and Quadrature
Oct 14 Reflection and Materials
Oct 19 The Rendering Equation and Global Illumination
Oct 21 Midterm Exam
Oct 26 Advanced Sampling and Rendering
Oct 28 High-Performance Ray Tracing
Nov 2 Introduction to Animation
Nov 4 Dynamics and Time Integration Assignment 3 due
Nov 9 Introduction to Optimization
Nov 11 Physically-Based Animation and PDEs Assignment 4 out
Nov 16 Visual and Numerical Linear Algebra
Nov 18 Frequency, Vibration, and Fourier
Nov 23 Theory of Color Assignment 4 due (Nov 24)
Nov 25 No Class (Thanksgiving Holiday)
Nov 30 Image Processing Basics Assignment 5 out
Dec 2 The Light Field and Computational Cameras
Dec 7 Fluid Simulation
Dec 9 Rendering Challenges of VR Assignment 5 due (Dec 11)
Dec 14 Final Exam

Programming Assignments

due Sep 21 Assignment 1: DrawSVG
due Oct 5 Assignment 2: MeshEdit
due Nov 2 Assignment 3: PathTracer
due Nov 24 Assignment 4: Animator (Results Video)
due Dec 11 Assignment 5: Going Further: Extend one of your previous assignments!
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