CSE 472 Computer Graphics

Spring, 2008

Charles B. Owen, instructor, cbowen@cse.msu.edu

This is the home page for CSE 472: Computer Graphics.. CSE 472 is taught in the spring of each year.  This course will study the use of computer graphics for image and animation creation. Students will study 3D modeling and rendering. We will learn how to create and render 3D images and animations. We will also study the underlying mechanisms used by various rendering technologies.

The course syllabus is available in PDF format.

Project 3 Writeup Optional Step 9

Course resources

• Course syllabus pdf
• Installing COpenGLWnd
• Installing CGrCamera camera control class
• The graphics.zip collection of graphics files we'll use updated 1-06-08
• My CSE 472 Rants Page
• Honors Option Options
• Texture Images
• Transparency in OpenGL 
• The Big Honkin' Ray Tracing Tutorial

Example materials

• SphereMesh example
• Particle systems demonstration program

Demonstration Programs

• Viewing demonstration program
          View frustums and the viewing process
• Parallel Projection demonstration program
          See examples of parallel projection
• ColorModel demonstration program
          RGB and HLS colors models
• VisibleRay demonstration program
          Ray tracing and color models demonstration 
• Curves demonstration program (now with source)
          Hermite, Bezier, and Spline curves.experimentation 

Notice:  The demonstration programs assume the Visual Studio 2005 runtime is available on your machine.  If you do not have Visual Studio 2005 installed, you can install the runtime using this installer.  Please contact me if you have difficulties running any of the this code.

Lecture sets

1. CSE 472 Computer Graphics 1-08-09 Powerpoint
2. Moving to 3D 1-10-08 Powerpoint
3. Geometric Transformations 1-17-08 Powerpoint
4. Vertex Normals, Texture Mapping, Modeling Issues 1-24-08 Powerpoint
5. Scene Graph Data Structures 1-31-08 Powerpoint
6. Viewing 2-5-08 Powerpoint
7. Light and Color 2-7-08 Powerpoint
8. Illumination and Shading 2-12-08  Powerpoint
9. Shading Models 2-19-08 Powerpoint
10. Ray Tracing 2-27-08 Powerpoint
11. Fun with Ray Tracing 3-11-08 Powerpoint
12. Texture Mapping, Bump Mapping, Displacement Mapping 3-18-08 Powerpoint
13. Reyes Rendering 3-25-08 Powerpoint
14. Curves I 3-27-08 Powerpoint
15. Curves II Powerpoint
16. Curves III Powerpoint
17. Radiosity Powerpoint
18. Particle Systems Powerpoint

Notice: Some lecture sets are very large because they contain a large number of images. 

I'm always trying to make lectures better, so if see something in class that is not on these sets, it's because I added it after posting the lectures.  I try to update them online if they change. 

Steps

1. Introduction to Visual Studio, MFC, and OpenGL Due 1-14-08
2. Working in 3D Due 1-22-08 Note:  Due Tuesday, as Monday is a holiday
3. Introduction to Lighting Due 1-28-08
4. Texture Mapping Due 2-4-08
5. Scene Graphs Due 2-11-08
6. Triangle Meshes and Graphic Files Due 2-18-08 This is the last step assignment before project 1 and spring break.
7. The Big Honkin' Ray Tracing Tutorial Due 3-31-08
8. Fun with the Poisson Distribution Due 4-7-08
9. Curved Surface Patches Optional, Due 4-28-08

All Steps are due at 11:59pm on the listed due date.

1. Project 1 - The CSE 472 2008 Regatta Due 3-12-08 * changed *
2. Project 2 - Ray Tracing Due 4-14-08
3. Project 3 - Final Project Due 4-30-08