General Information
| Course Outline |
outlineComp557Fall2009.pdf |
| Web Page |
www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kry/comp557 |
| Lectures |
1:05 PM - 2:25 PM, Tuesdays and Thursdays |
| Location |
Trottier Building 2100 |
| Credits |
3 |
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| Instructor |
Paul Kry |
| Telephone |
514 398 2577 |
| Office |
MC113N |
| Office Hours |
2:30 - 3:30 pm Tuesdays, or by appointment (any time!) |
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| Teaching Assistants |
Maxime Boucher, maxime.boucher@mail.mcgill.ca
Emmanuel Piuze, emmanuel.piuze-phaneuf@mail.mcgill.ca |
Office Hours |
Maxime Boucher, Trottier 3104, Wednesdays 1pm to 2pm, or by appointment
Emmanuel Piuze, McConnell 404, Thursdays 3pm to 4pm, or by appointment
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| WebCT |
for discussion boards and assignment submission |
Lecture Notes
- Geometry and Transformations
- Camera Coordinates, Viewing Transformations, Perspective Projection (updated Sept 29)
- Spline Curves and Surfaces (updated Sept 29, Oct 1)
- Clipping, Visibility (rasterization, culling, ray casting), Meshes, LOD, Mesh Simplification, Quadric Surfaces, Ray intersections, Rendering Equation, Shadow Volumes
Here are links to last year's lecture material that has not yet been edited to
focus on the material that has been covered in class:
- illumination and reflectance models
(PDF)
- shading polygons (Gouraud and Phong)
(PDF)
- texture mapping
(PDF)
- shadows
(PDF)
- image compositing
(PDF)
- focus and the accumulation buffer
(PDF)
- colour
(PDF)
These lecture notes are largely based on those prepared by Mike Langer, and make
use of other sources, including MIT
Open CourseWare. These course notes in progress and complete
are likewise provided under a Creative Commons Attribution
Non-Commercial Share Alike license.
Assignments, Exercises, and Exams
- Midterm, 15 October, during class time, in MDHAR G-10 (178).
- Final, 16 December 9am, Leacock 132
Resources
Schedule
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September 1 |
Introduction |
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September 3 |
Vector spaces,
Affine spaces,
Homogeneous coordinates,
Rotation |
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September 8 |
Transformations,
Hierarchies |
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September 10 |
Viewing transformation,
Perspective projection |
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September 15 |
Projection taxonomy,
Normalized device coordinates |
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September 17 |
Curves introduction,
Bezier, Interpolation, and Hermite curves,
Bezier properties,
Change of basis |
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September 22 |
Tensor product patches,
Decaslejau algorithm,
rational curves |
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September 24 |
B-spline introduction and intuition,
polar forms and blossoms |
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September 29 |
Surfaces of revolution,
swept surfaces,
Frenet frame,
parallel transport |
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October 1 |
Subdivision curves,
corner cutting,
limit point analysis,
subdivision surface introduction |
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October 6 |
Mesh terminology,
Euler characteristic ,
Half edge data structure introcution |
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October 8 |
Half Edge data structure examples,
Level of Detail introduction |
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October 13 |
Mesh simplification,
Edge collapse and vertex split,
Point plane distance,
Quadric error metric introduction, |
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October 15 |
Midterm Exam (in class) |
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October 20 |
Mesh simplification review
Quadric error metric |
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October 22 |
Clipping
Rasterization
Painter's and Warnock algorithm
Binary space partions
Depth Buffer |
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October 27 |
Ray triangle intersection
barycentric coordinates
barycentric interpolation
bilinear interpolation
ray quadric intersection |
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October 29 |
Quadric transformations
Quadric normals
Constructive solid geometry
Illumination (ambient, diffuse, specular, attenuation) |
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November 3 |
Shading models (Phong, Gouraud)
Lighting models continued |
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November 5 |
Texture mapping
Magnification and Minification
Mip maps
Bilinear interpolation |
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November 10 |
Shadow maps,
Stencil shadow volumes |
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November 12 |
The rendering equation
Radiosity |
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November 17 |
compositing,
transparency,
blending |
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November 19 |
Cancelled (too many thursdays in schedule) |
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November 24 |
Colour
Colour Matching Experiment
CIE XYZ
Chromaticity diagram
Colour conversion between different displays |
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November 26 |
Colour purity / saturation
Complementary Colours
Just noticable differences
Gamuts and Gamma |
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December 1 |
Review for final |
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December 3 |
No class, this Thursday follows Monday's schedule |
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