CSE 872 Advanced Computer Graphics

Course resources

• Recommended software
• Installing COpenGLWnd
• Installing CGrCamera
• Some general graphics support files:  graphics.zip
• Andrew Witkin and David Baraff - Physically Based Modeling:  Principles and Practice
• Paper Presentations
• • Links to other course websites:
  •     Stanford
  (Undergrad course)
  •     MIT
  (Undergrad course)
  •     CMU
  (Grad course)
  •     Berkeley
  (Undergrad course)
  •     Caltech
  (Grad course)
  •     UIUC
  (Grad course)
  •     Cornkell (Physically-based Simulation)
  •     Columbia
  (Undergrad course)
  •     USC (Undergrad course)

Demonstration Programs

• The slither demonstration:  slither.zip
• The curves demonstration program:  curves.zip
• The physics demonstration program:  physeeks.zip
• The radiosity demonstration program:  radiosity.zip

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

Will appear as the course goes.

• Intro
• Modeling 
• Basic Physics
• Rasterization
• Illumination and Shading
• Basic geometry
• Radiosity
• Other rendering techniques
• Animation
• NPR and Image-based Methods
• Linear Algebra
• Homework 2
• Surface/Meshes
• Texture Synthesis
• Curves
• Curvature, Invariance without Derivatives Now available.
• Parameterizations
• Simulation with Meshes
• Thin Shell and Plates
• Shadows
• Field Visualization
• Volume of Data
• Implicit Surfaces
• Subsurface Scattering
• Mesh Simplification
• Subdivision Surfaces
• Fluid Simulation
• Spline Surfaces
• Intro to Discrete Differential Geometry

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

Tutorials
 

• Tutorial 1: Introduction to Visual Studio and OpenGLWnd
• Tutorial 2: Working in 3D
• Tutorial 3: Introduction to Lighting
• Tutorial 4: Texture Mapping
• Tutorial 5: Antialiasing and other fun with the Accumulation Buffer
• Tutorial 9: Picking and Interaction

      Due dates (to come):

• Normally at 11:59pm (email me if you have questions)

Assignments (Submission through email)

• Particle System  (Due Sept 29) Related Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennard-Jones_potential http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/software/mdapplet.html http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bds2/ltsn/Edinburgh/lennard-jones/lennard-jones.html

• Gz Renderer: Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3 (Step 3 is optional) (Due Oct 21, postponed to Oct 24)
  You may submit your solution to Step 1 after Oct 10 if you wish to see a sample implementation of Step 1.

• Curve smoothing: HW3 (Due Nov 15)