Below is a tentative schedule of lectures and labs. Lecture notes will be posted here as the semester advances. Schedule and topics are subject to change (probably not much)
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lecture |
lab |
week 1 (08/26,28) |
course overview, introduction to scientific visualization -the rendering pipeline (Ch. 0) |
lab rules, lab hours, lab equipement, software for this course -intro to Linux and MATLAB, pixie renderer |
week 2 (09/02,04) |
vectors and matrices - review (Ch. 1 and 2) |
MATLAB: variables, operators, and plotting |
week 3 (09/09,11) |
matrix and transforms - review (Ch. 2 and 3) |
MATLAB functions and scripts |
week 4 (09/16,18) |
3D engine geometry: lines and planes -review(Ch. 4.1 and 4.2); the view frustum (Ch. 4.3) |
more plotting with MATLAB and 3D graphics |
week 5 (09/23,25) |
perspective-correct interpolation (Ch. 4.4), projections (Ch. 4.5) |
intro to blender -the user interface
tools, transforms and boolean operations |
week 6 (09/30,10/02) |
cubic, Hermite and Bézier curves (Ch. 15.1 - 15.3) |
week 7 (10/07,09) |
splines (Ch. 15.4 - 15.6) |
curves and surfaces -blender |
week 8 (10/14,16) |
class cancelled due to local fires |
midterm review |
week 9 (10/21,23) |
bi-cubic surfaces, curvature and torsion (Ch. 15.7 and 15.8); root finding (Ch. 5.1) |
midterm exam |
week 10 (10/28,30) |
surface inersections, normal vectors, reflection and refraction vectors (Ch. 5.2 - 5.4) |
NURBS in MATLAB: cubic_nubs.m
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week 11 (11/04,06) |
RGB color, light sources, diffuse lighting, texture mapping (Ch. 6.1 - 6.4) |
intro to pixie
pixie tutorial: global illumination |
week 12 (11/13) |
no class - veteran's day |
blender tutorial: glass |
week 13 (11/18,20) |
specular lighting, emission, shading, bump mapping (Ch. 6.5 - 6.8) |
more lighting |
week 14 (11/25) |
a physical reflection model (Ch. 6.9), bounding volume construction and bounding volume tests (Ch. 7.1 and 7.2) |
no class - thx giving |
week 15 (12/02,04) |
spatial partitioning, portal systems (Ch. 7.3 and 7.4) |
shaders |
week 16 (12/09) |
final project discussion |
no class - study day |
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