updated by Brian 07/December/2007 13:30
New Important Information Will be added here Final Exam Marks posted to marks page + Answer to ray counting question Last year's exam online. pdf of space sub-division notes online. Mid-term Marks and Ass2 marks added to marks page Many of the links have been fixed at the end of the page. Old exams added. (Note that the notation may vary from the current notes in old exams). Assignment
Assignment One (5%) Due 1, October 2007 C (not C++) tutorials will be run by CSC 360 see their website for details (TF01) F 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. COR A121 some examples us qt2 or qt3 dlls. See end of page for links to old exams. Page last modified on October 18, 2007 by Chris (Broken Links will be fixed soon!) |
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The notes are continually being updated and the schedule of lecture subjects can be slightly varied to reflect extra notes. Lecture notes will be updated the evening before the lecture. These are to be used IN CONJUNCTION with the text book and do not serve as a substitute.
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You should submit your homework using the ENGR submission system. The submission system is now active for assignment 1 |
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To create a compressed tar file containing your
entire assigment type: tar cvf hw1.tar [your assignment directory] bzip2 hw1.tar |
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How
NOT to go about a programming assignment
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Instructor: Dr. Brian WyvillBrian is the less hairy one on the left.
Courtesy Erwin Dr Groot Courtesy Callum Galbraith |
TA: Chris Serson
Courtesy Ryan Schmidt |
Click on the subject areas to display course note files in Portable Document Format (pdf) which can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat viewer. This software can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/acrobat
Textbook: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics 2nd Edition; Peter Shirley www.cs.utah.edu/~shirley/books/fcg2/
Assignment two examples from Chris : |
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GLViewPort.dll |
GLViewPort.zip |
ViewportsDemo.zip |
Some examples use qt2 or qt3 dlls.
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Dates | Topics | Textbook References |
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Week One Sep 5th |
Introduction | Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 5 (review of Linear Algebra essentials) |
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Week Two Sep 10 |
Hardware and Raster Fundamentals, Line Algorithm, circles forward differencing | Chapter 3 |
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Week Three Sep 17 |
2D/3d transformations, scenegraph, homogeneous transform properties |
Chapter 6 |
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Week Four Sep 24 |
Chapter 7 | |
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Week Five Oct 1 |
Modelling (pg 2,4)parametric curves (pg 36,40, 303), Bezier-splines (Ch. 15) | |
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Week Six Oct 8 |
B-spline algorithms, patches, Generalized Cylinders, Bloomenthal article, subdivision (Note: I have linked to the powerpoint as not everything shows up in the pdf. pdf is also loaded) windows demos: bezier.exe, chaikin.exe, qt-mt230.dll |
Chapter 15 |
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Week Seven Oct 15 |
decastlejeau implicit modeling
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Implicit (Ch.15) |
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Week Eight Oct 22 |
Review
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Week Nine Oct 29 |
For ass3 see: Birthing a ray tracer Mid-Term Exam Thursday, November 1, 2007 (25%) exam in class |
Rendering (pg 2, 197, 461), Images (Ch. 20, 22) Chapter 10 |
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Week Ten Nov 5 |
Rendering, Introduction
to ray tracing
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Z-buffer (Ch 8), anti-aliasing (Ch. 4), Lighting (Ch. 19) |
Week Eleven Nov12/14/15 Reading Days 12-14th Nov 15 |
No Class Monday Wednesday Lighting shading |
Chapter 9 | |
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Week Twelve Nov19 |
Chapter 9 | |
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Week Thirteen Nov 26 |
Ray Tracing Two ray tracing hierarchies Texture mapping and anti-aliasing. |
Chapter 11 |
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Week Fourteen Dec 3
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Images: grey levels, gamma correction, colour introduction. Final Exam Review |
Chapter 16 |
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I am still trying to track down the useful documents for these links. I will get these working as soon as possible. |
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Exercise 1: |
Introduction, getting started with Qt and Doxygen
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Exercise 2: |
Getting further with Qt and started with OpenGL.
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Exercise 4: |
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Exercise 5: |
Erwin's CubeView Example.
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Exercise 6: |
Kevin
Foster's Multiple OpenGL viewport example.
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Exercise 7 |
Calculation of
reference frames along a space curve by Jules Bloomenthal.
To calculate the Frenet (or otherwise) frame to orient the cross section of your cylinder. |
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Assignment | Weight | Due Date | ||
1 | 5% | October 1st | ||
2 | 10% | November 5th | ||
3 | 15% | December 9th - demo 10am Dec 10th | ||
There will be 4 assignments worth 40% of the course marks. The assignments are programming tasks and should be submitted electronically by the dates indicated.
Your code should be easy to read and written by you. You may be given code by your TA and this should be properly credited within your program. You are NOT permitted to use any code that is not written by you, provided by your TA, or authorised for re-use by your TA.
Course FAQ | ||
Getting qmake to work. | ||
Preparing PDF Documents | ||
Linear Algebra Review from Kelly Poon | ||
C++ Tutorial from Kelly Poon | ||
C++ virtual Tutorial from The C++ Virtual Library | ||
OpenGL.org website: There is a wealth of information on OpenGL.org (as well as their forums). | ||
OpenGL Tutorials | ||
OpenGL Red Book (OpenGL Programming Guide) | ||
OpenGL Blue Book (OpenGL Reference Manual). | ||
Interactive Introduction to OpenGL Programming | ||
QT 3.0 Documentation | ||
QT Class Descriptions | ||
Signals and Slots | ||
Birthing a ray tracer | ||
SIGGRAPH Ray tracing notes | ||
Exam from 1997. and answers. | ||
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The 1998 mid-term was a take-home exam. | |
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Take a look at the old exams 96, and final 97. | |
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Also look at the solution to the ray tracing problem from the 2001 final | |
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A collection of old exam questions is available in pdf format. | |
2007 exam | ||
Nate Robbins' OpenGL tutorials contain a simple library for loading and displaying .OBJ files. The library
interface is declared in glm.h, and implemented in glm.c. Some past exams have been posted: 1997 1999mid,1999final, 2000.midans94 |
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OpenGL Viewport Control for Windows Applications in Visual Studios 2005. Get Source. Note: An unresolved problem in this version exists: When you open the designer view, any GLEvent attachments you set get deleted. Not the functions themselves, just the linking code. This Viewports Demo shows how to set up multiple viewports using the above control. |
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