There will be several tutorials at the beginning of the term to help you get started with OpenGL, the java bindings, and setting up your Eclipse environment for assignments. These are things you can do on your own by following the directions in assignment 0 below, but the tutorials may help you resolve any problems you have and will cover the basics of OpenGL.

• Room and date TBA, Eclipse, setting up A0, vecmath
• Room and date TBA, OpenGL basics, tips, and tricks

There will be four assignments during the term. Links to assignments will be posted here during the term. Practice problems, old midterms and final exams, and solutions will also be posted to WebCT during the term.

There will be two exams, worth a total of 60% of the final grade. The first will be a midterm exam which will take place in class sometime between October 13 and October 25. It is worth 20% of your grade. The second exam will take place during the Final Exam Period and is worth 40% of the final grade. For more information on evaluation refer to the coures outline.

• Assignment 0, no due date, but you'll need to do this to start the others.

The following course textbook is recommended, and should be available for purchase at the McGill bookstore for the beginning of the term.

• Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, 3rd Edition, Shirley and Marschner

There are many online resources that you may find helpful, including those listed below.

• The OpenGL Programming Guide (The Red Book)

The following schedule is tentative. The adjusted schedule will be recorded in MyCourses as the term progresses. Adjustments will be made to synchronize with assignments and to better match material in the textbook and other sources. Topics will be added and removed depending on interest and time permitting.

1	September 5	Introduction,
2	September 10	Vector spaces, Affine spaces, Homogeneous coordinates, Rotation
3	September 12	Transformations, Hierarchies
4	September 17	Viewing transformation, Perspective projection Note: Victor Zordan colloqium
5	September 19	Projection taxonomy, Normalized device coordinates
6	September 24	Curves introduction, Bezier, Interpolation, and Hermite curves, Bezier properties, Change of basis
7	September 26	Tensor product patches, Decaslejau algorithm, rational curves,
8	October 1	B-spline introduction and intuition, polar forms and blossoms
9	October 3	Surfaces of revolution, swept surfaces, Frenet frame, parallel transport
10	October 10	Subdivision curves, corner cutting, limit point analysis, subdivision surface introduction Note: Karan Singh colloqium
11	October 15	Mesh terminology, Euler characteristic , Half edge data structure introcution
12	October 17	Half Edge data structure examples, Level of Detail introduction
13	October 22	Mesh simplification, Edge collapse and vertex split, Point plane distance, Quadric error metric introduction,
14	October 24	Midterm Exam (in class) date may be moved up
15	October 29	Mesh simplification review Quadric error metric
16	October 31	Clipping Rasterization Painter's and Warnock algorithm Binary space partions Depth Buffer Note: Michiel van de Panne colloqium Note: Lionel Reveret colloqium
17	November 5	Ray triangle intersection barycentric coordinates barycentric interpolation bilinear interpolation ray quadric intersection
18	November 7	Quadric transformations Quadric normals, Constructive solid geometry, Illumination (ambient, diffuse, specular, attenuation),
19	November 12	Shading models (Phong, Gouraud), Lighting models continued,
20	November 14	Texture mapping Magnification and Minification Mip maps Bilinear interpolation
21	November 19	Shadow maps, Stencil shadow volumes
22	November 21	The rendering equation Radiosity
23	November 26	compositing, transparency, blending
25	November 28	Colour Colour Matching Experiment CIE XYZ Chromaticity diagram Colour conversion between different displays
26	December 3	Colour purity / saturation Complementary Colours Just noticable differences Gamuts and Gamma
27	December 4 (Tuesday)	Review for final