CSC 240b: Computer Graphics [S03]

Instructor:  Joseph O'Rourke
Teaching Assistant: Michiko Charley. McC104 Mon 7:00-10:00PM
Textbook: Computer Graphics Using OpenGL. F. S. Hill, Jr. Second Edition, 2001. ISBN 0-02-354856-8. ($78 at amazon.com; $?? at our bookstore.)
Location: Engineering 202.
Time: MWF 9:00-9:50AM.
Prerequisites: Computer Science II (CSC 112); Linear Algebra helpful but not essential.
Programming Language: C or C++.
Software:

• Postscript. The language used to drive most printers.
• OpenGL, a state-of-the-art graphics API, developed originally by Silicon Graphics, but now an open standard. Will dominate the first half of the course.
• Mathematica will be used in class, but you will not be expected to learn this.
• Adobe Illustrator, used for just one assignment on curves.
• POV-Ray, 3D rendering software, will dominate the last half of the course.

Location: Engineering Bldg., Rm. 202.

Exams:  There will be two exams, a take-home midterm and a self-scheduled, open-book final. The exams together account for 35% of the total grade; the course is more heavily weighted toward the assignments. The exams will emphasize more theoretical understanding, and the assignments will emphasize programming and producing graphics effects.

Grades:

Collaboration on Assignments.

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