CMPS160 Fall 2004

Introduction to Computer Graphics

Schedule in progress:

Week 1 – 9/24

• Chapters 1, A1, A2, 2
• Linear Algebra review
• Drawing Lines
• Coordinate Reference Frames
• Graphics Intro
• Screen Coordinates

Week 2 – 9/27 – 10/1

• Chapters 2 and 3
• OpenGL and FLTK intro
• 2D-Viewing
• Introduce OpenGL/Glut Warm-up program 1
• Line Drawing
• Circle Drawing
• Eclipse Drawing (moved to week 3)
• Determining interior and exterior regions of polygon (moved to week 3)
• Storing all components of polygon
• Vertex table, edge table, surface table
• Display Lists (moved to week 3)
• Reshaping windows (moved to week 3)

Week 3 – 10/4-10/8

• Homework 1 is due Wednesday 10/6 at beginning of class
• Chapters 4 and 5
• Introduction of program 2.
• FLTK more in depth
• Fluid file.fl
• Generate code
• Save
• Menus, buttons, valuators, etc.
• Fltk_Fluid_Gl_Demo
• Simple demo program for drawing gl in fltk.
• Point and line attributes
• Anti-aliasing
• Unweighted
• Weighted
• Use in polygon scan lines
• 2D Transformations
• Simple
• rotation, translation, scaling
• Composite
• More coming soon….

Week 4 – 10/11-10/15

• Program 2 is due Sunday October 17^th.

Week 5 – 10/18-10/22

• Chapter 6 up through Liang-Barsky Clipping Algorithm.
• Midterm Review on Friday

Week 6 – 10/25-10/29

• Midterm on 10/25
• Finish Chapter 6 with Polygon Clipping
• Chapter 7 – 3D viewing

Week 7 – 11/1-11/5

• Finish Chapter 7 Perspective Viewing and 3D clipping with 3D Clipping
• Read Chapter 10