CSE3431 3.0 A: Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics 
Fall term, 2011

 

Who/When/Where

Instructor: Karim Benzeroual 

Email: karim@cse.yorku.ca
Lectures: Mondays & Wednesdays 13:00-14:30, CB 115

 

Office Hours

Mondays and Wednesdays 14:30-16:00 (CSEB 2015)

 

Last updated: 04/01/2012

News:

04/01/12: Final Grades are available online

04/01/12: The A3 (out of 9) and Final Exam (%) marks are available here: Marks

24/12/11: Happy Holydays and Happy New Year!

24/12/11: To whom it may concern: the deferred exam is scheduled at 4:00pm in the Chemistry Building room 121 on Wednesday, January 11, 2012

24/12/11: The marks for the A3 and the final exam will be available before January 6th

12/12/11: The A2 marks are available here (your mark out of 9): A2 Marks

24/11/11: Assignment 3 is online (Due date December 15 at 1pm)

14/11/11: Extension for A2 submission, FINAL due date: Friday Oct 18th midnight

14/11/11: Demo available for: GL_MODELVIEW, GL_PROJECTION

11/11/11: See the A2 webpage for submitting instructions: A2

10/11/11: The Midterm marks are available here (your mark out of 80): Midterm

01/11/11: The A1 marks are available here (your mark out of 9): A1 Marks

01/11/11: The Quiz marks are available here (your mark out of 9): Q1 Marks

01/11/11: All the slides + corresponding textbook Chapters presented until Oct 24th (Chapter 6 included) can potentially be part of the midterm exam (See section “Course presentation” bellow for details)

23/10/11: Assignment 2 is online

23/10/11: Final exam scheduled for: Dec 20 at 9:00am (3 hours)

13/10/11: Please send your A1 project files per email to: karim@cse.yorku.ca

03/10/11: Due to the reading week, the due date for the “Assignment 1” has been changed to Oct 17th mid-day

Assignments

-         Assignment 1 (Due date Oct 17 mid-day)

-         Assignment 2 (Due date Nov 18 midnight)

-         Assignment 3 (Due date Dec 15 at 1pm)

Marks

Marks available here

Course presentation

The course will be presented using power point slides. The author’s slides attached with the textbook can be taken as a global overview of the course (can be downloaded here) but the presented slides will be completely redesigned and adapted to the course purpose.

You can download the slides after each class here:

-         Chapter 1: Download PPT class of 07/09/2011

-         Chapter 1: Download PPT class of 12/09/2011

-         Chapter 2: Download PPT class of 14/09/2011

-         Chapter 3: Download PPT class of 19/09/2011

-         Chapter 3: class of 26/09/2011 (Continuation of the previous PPT)

-         Chapter 3: Download PPT class of 28/09/2011

-         Chapter 4: Download PPT class of 03/10/2011

-         Chapter 4: Download PPT class of 05/10/2011 (Demo: GL_MODELVIEW, GL_PROJECTION)

-         Chapter 4 & 5: Download PPT class of 17/10/2011

-         Chapter 5: Download PPT class of 19/10/2011 (Download demos here)

-         Chapter 6: Download PPT class of 24/10/2011 (Download demos here)

-         Chapter 7: Download PPT class of 26/10/2011

-         Chapter 7 & 8: Download PPT class of 31/10/2011

-         Chapter  8: Download PPT class of 02/11/2011

-         Chapter  8: Download PPT class of 07/11/2011

-         Chapter  9: Download PPT class of 14/11/2011

-         Chapter  10: Download PPT class of 16/11/2011

-         Chapter  10: Download PPT class of 21/11/2011

-         Bonus : Download PPT class of 24/11/2011

-         Chapter 13 : Download PPT class of 28/11/2011

-         Chapter 13 : Download PPT class of 30/11/2011

Textbook

Angel, "Interactive Computer Graphics A Top-Down Approach with OpenGL, Fifth Edition", Addison-Wesley, 2009, ISBN-10: 0321535863, ISBN-13: 978-0321535863

Brief Overview

This course introduces the fundamental concepts and algorithms of three-dimensional computer graphics. Topics include: an overview of graphics hardware and graphics systems, object modelling, transformations, camera models and viewing, visibility, illumination and reflectance models, texture mapping and an introduction to advanced rendering techniques such as ray tracing.

Optional topics include an introduction to Stereoscopic 3D programming.

Prerequisites: General prerequisites, CSE 2031 3.0, MATH 1025 3.0

Course Evaluation

Work

Date

(%)

Quiz

Sept 21

5

A1

Oct 17 (12:00 mid-day)

10

Midterm

Nov 9

20

A2

Nov 18 (00:00 midnight)

10

A3

Dec 15 (13:00)

10

Exam

Dec 20 at 9:00am (3 hours)

45

DEF Exam

Jan 11 at 4pm (3 hours) in CB121

45

Reference Material