6.837 - Introduction to Computer Graphics
Fall 1999

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

new 12/3 -	The Project Teams Page is revised with the final reports.
new 12/3 -	Make sure you read the Artifact Turnin Instructions.
12/1 -	The final project presentation schedule is up.
11/30 -	Final Project Report Guidelines
11/10 -	ImageMagick
11/3 -	Check out Home Instinct
9/14 -	The textbook is now available at: Quantum Books - $57.60 (no tax) barnesandnoble.com - $63.75 (Ships within 24 hours) amazon.com - $66.75 (Ships within 24 hours)

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION:

Course Information
Teaching Staff and Office Hours
Course Calendar
How to turn in programming assignments

Idea submission form
List of ideas submitted

Report Guidelines
Project Teams
Presentation Schedule
Artifact Turnin Instructions

STUDENTS:

Student Thumbnails Directory
Student Survey Results


Student Course Webpages:

Nilesh Agarwalla Bruce Applegate Christopher Avrich Christian Baekkelund William Beebee Jaroslav Blagojevic Theresa Burianek Alice Chau David Chen Kae-Chy Chen Christopher Cheng Karin Cheung Benjamin Chun Neil Chungfat Ira Cooper Frank Dabek Michael Dewberry Ron Dror Blair Dunn Scott Eaton Maik Flanagin Joshua Glazer Omprakash Gnawali Rachel Greenstadt Javier Guajardo Roshan Gupta

Shirley Hao Jialun He Jin-Young Hong Tung-Ju Hsieh Stanley Hu Jane Huang Mark Huang Hau Hwang Kyle Ingols Miroslav Jurisic Igor Kaplansky Justin Kent Karen Kohl Bharath Krishnan Ajay Kulkarni Pei-Jeng Kuo Jessica Laszlo Charles Lee Matthew Lee Ying Lee Jeremy Lilley Joyce Lin Likuo Lin Emily Liu Tzerhung Low Ming Maa

Anup Mantena Emily Marcus David Maze Fred Mburu Kenneth McCracken Shishir Mehrotra Michael Mills Delphine Nain Sripriya Natarajan Hai Ning Jack Nye Jonathan Pearce John Pelly Jing Qian Ben Resner Pascal Rettig Suresh Segaran Jeffrey Sheldon David Sirkin Brian Sniffen Alex Snoeren Daniel Snow Jaime Solari Flavia Sparacino Valentin Spitkovsky Krishnan Sriram

Christa Starr Richard Su Yu Sui Allen Sun Andreas Sundquist Alex Sverdlov Chad Talbott Aileen Tang William Tomlinson Padmanabha Vedam Bill Wallis Lawrence Wang Lei Wang Ruopeng Wang Zachary Warren Jordan Weitz Henry Wong Hao Yan Alice Yang Alexander Yip Chaz Yoon David Zhang Xianfeng Zhao

General Information
Assignments

1. Online Registration and Webpage (due 5pm Friday 9/17)
2. Bresenham and Cohen-Sutherland (due 5pm Friday 9/24)

• Correct Bresenham implementation
• Correct Cohen-Sutherland implementation
• For those of you interested in playing around a little bit more with the code, we've made the files BresenhamMain.java and CohenSutherlandMain.java available for download/modification. Note, however, that we are not officially supporting these files!
3. Object Modeling (due 5pm Friday 10/1)

• Run "tar xvf assignment3.tar" to get the source files.
• Strange compilation problems? This alternate makefile might help.
4. Scene Modeling (due 5pm Friday 10/8)

• Student Object Modeling programs
• Student sample objects
• Make sure you use turnin correctly
  
• Your main scene file has to be named uid_scene_name.iv where uid is your athena username, scene is a mandatory keyword, and name is a descriptive name for your scene.
  For example, chocobo_scene_classroom.iv
5. Assignment5 (due 5pm Friday 10/15)

• Run "tar xvf ivscan.tar" to get the source files.
• Get the ivscan executable here.
6. Assignment 6A and 6B (due 5pm Friday 10/22)

• Run "tar xvf ivray.tar" to get the source files.
• Get the ivray executable here.
• For those of you who downloaded the tar file before the README was added, take a look at the README right here.
Lecture Notes

1. Course Overview
2. 2D Segment Processing: Rasterization and Clipping H&B 3.1-3.6; 6.5-6.7
3. Rendering Pipeline and Modeling Transformation H&B 12.1-12.5
4. Object/World Space Modeling, Using Inventor H&B 7.3; 10.1-10.3; 11.5
5. Local Illumination Models H&B 14.1-14.2
6. Pipeline Transformation H&B 12.1-12.5
7. Perspective Screen Space H&B 6.1-6.3
8. Polygon Scan Conversion H&B 14.5
9. Polygon Clipping H&B 6.8
10. Ray Casting H&B 10.15, 14.6
11. Ray Tracing H&B 14.6, 14.8, 4.8
12. Final Project Brainstorming
13. Carlo Sequin Guest Lectures: Solid Modeling
14. Radiosity H&B 14.7
15. Justin Legakis Guest Lectures: Texture Mapping H&B 14.9
16. Justine Cassell Guest Lectures: Story-Telling
17. Parametric Curves & Surfaces
18. Animation & Simulation
19. Color
20. Graphics Hardware
21. Visible Surface Determination
22. Visible Surface Determination, part 2
23. Future Directions in Graphics

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES:

Location of Athena SGI Machines
SGI Demos
Getting Started with Inventor
Inventor Examples
Inventor Quick Reference Guide
Help on C++
Other Fun Stuff

TOOLS:

Creating MPEG Movies

Here is a utility to convert SGI movies to MPEG format. First, create an SGI movie with moviemaker, and then use this utility to convert it to MPEG. You will have to edit the script to change the MPEG frame pattern as desired. (See the README.)
Graphics Tools on Athena