Final Exam:
High: 96
Low: 65
Mean: 83
Median: 85
MEETING TIMES -
| Leonard
McMillan
email: mcmillan@lcs.mit.edu Room: NE43-251 -- Tech Sqr Office Phone: 258-0381 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 11:00-12:00 |
Seth
Teller
email: seth@lcs.mit.edu Room: NE43-252 -- Tech Sqr Office Phone: 258-7885 Office Hours: Wed 3:00-4:00, Fri 2:00-3:00 |
| Teaching Assistants | ||
| Marc Lebovitz
email: lebo@mit.edu Lab Hours: Mon 1:00-2:00, Fri 2:00-3:00 |
Kari Anne Kjolaas
email: karianne@mit.edu Lab Hours: Mon 2:00-3:00, Fri 1:00-2:00 |
Jacob Schwartz
email: quark@mit.edu Lab Hours: Wed 12:00-1:00, Wed 3:00-4:00 |
| Course Secretary | ||
| Bryt Bradley
email: bryt@graphics.lcs.mit.edu Room: NE43-253 -- Tech Sqr Office Phone: 253-6583 |
Hearn,Donald
and M. Pauline Baker, Computer Graphics, C version, 2nd Edition,
Prentice
Hall, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1997, 652 pages, ISBN 0-13-530924-7.
Hearn and Baker will be the textbook for 6.837. This book is well organized and provides a good introduction to most of the topics that we will cover this term. You will find that the illustrations and code fragments are an excellent suppliment to the materials covered in the lectures. Reading assignments will accompany the lecture notes, which will be placed on the web. You may read the course materials either before or after the lecture that they are associated with. All reading assignments will be considered fair game for inclusion on the mid-term and final exams, whether or not the material was covered in class. I'm sorry for the expense of this book.
Flanagan,
David, Java in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition,
O'Reilly
and Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, California, 1997, 628 pages, ISBN
1-56592-262-X.
Flanagan's Java in a Nutshell is an optional supplimentary textbook this term. The first part is an excellent introduction to the Java language for anyone with previous C or C++ experience. This book contains very little of the hype that is typical of most Java books. It presents an introduction to Java's object-oriented approach. The second part of the book is largely a reference manual of the Java language and its associated APIs.
Depending on you previous experience you might find other Java books
more useful. I also like
Thinking
in Java, by Bruce
Eckel (Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN
0--13-659723-8) as a text for hare core computer scientists. It has lots
of good examples and thoughful discussions. However, it is not very useful
as a reference, and is a little over priced at $39.95 (it doesn't even
come with one of those silver frisbees). There is also an on-line
version of the book.
Roughly speaking, the first half of this course will address a broad range of topics that that we refer to as Raster Methods. These include two dimensional computer graphics, raster operations, imaging methods, and user interface design and construction. The second half of the course will cover topics related to three-dimensional computer graphics, including representation, illumination, shading, visibility determination, and rendering.
This is a lot of stuff to cover in 24 class meetings, and you can expect the pace to be frantic at times. But, I hope that you will find, as we have, that this stuff, computer graphics, is a blast.
| Programming Projects (4 of 5 with the lowest dropped)..... | 50% |
| Mid-term Quiz................................................................ | 20% |
| Final Examination............................................................ | 20% |
| Exercises and Class Participation...................................... | 10% |
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LECTURE HANDOUTS -
The following printable note sets are in provided in postscript format and are 4 slides to a page:
Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Lecture 6, Lecture 7, Lecture 8, Lecture 9, Lecture 10, Lecture 11, Lecture 12, Lecture 13, Lecture 14, Lecture 15, Lecture 16, Lecture 17,
(Thanks go to Rob Ragno for providing these printable note sets.)