Courses: EECS 104 - Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

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Contents 1 Course Overview 2 Reference Documents 3 Project Requirements 4 Lecture Notes 5 Assignments 6 Reading Assignments 7 Important Dates 8 Course Resources 9 Tools / APIs 10 Announcements

Course Overview

Instruction to the fundamental algorithms and data structures used in computer graphics including: output primitives, linear transformations, windowing, hidden-line removal, and shading

Reference Documents

• Course Syllabus (pdf)
• Grading (pdf)
• Coding Standards (pdf) (html)

Project Requirements

• Code has to follow the VIS coding standard.
• Projects have to be submitted through this site.

Lecture Notes

• OpenGL
• Scalars, Points and Vectors
• Transformations
• Graphics Pipeline
• Clipping
• Scan Conversion
• Illumination
• Shading
• Texture Mapping

Assignments

• Warmup Project
• Project 1: Example models in FCG format ( v1.1 )
• Project 2: Example models in FCG format ( v1.2 - subject to change)
• Project 3: Example models in FCG format ( v1.3 - subject to change)
• Project 4: Example models, textures in FCG format ( v1.4 - subject to change)

Reading Assignments

• 10/06/2006 Chapter 1
• 10/13/2006 Chapter 2.1-2.4
• 10/20/2006 Chapter 2.5-2.12 & 3.1-3.6
• 10/27/2006 Chapter 3.7-3.13 & 4.3, 4.5-4.9
• 11/03/2006 Chapter 5

Important Dates

• 09/26/2006 First day of class.
• 10/19/2006 Warm-up project is due (midnight)
• 10/23/2006 Project 1 is due - extended deadline (midnight)
• 10/31/2006 Midterm
• 11/06/2006 Project 2 is due (midnight)
• 11/24/2006 Project 3 is due (midnght)
• 12/01/2006 Project 4 is due (noon)
• 12/05/2006 Final Exam

Course Resources

• Electronic Course Noteboard
• Course Mailing List: eecs104-F06@classes.uci.edu
• Mailing List Archive: TBA
• TA Website / Discussion Page

Tools / APIs

• Doxygen - required for all projects
• CVS or SVN - recommended as productivity tool
• Electronic Homework Submission Tool
• GLUT
• GLUI
• The OpenGL Tutor

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Announcements

• Read the coding standards. (pdf)