Introduction
to Computer
Graphics

Fall 2000

September
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
27 28 29 30 31 1 2
3 4


Labor Day		 5


Reg Day		 6 7
Intro and Display Technologies		 8 9
10 11 12
Pixels, Rasters, and Sprites		 13 14
Color Topics
(Assign project #1)		 15 16
17 18 19
Imaging Topics		 20 21
Line Drawing		 22 23
24 25


MIT Holiday		 26


6.837 Holiday		 27


(Project #1 due)		 28
Scan Conversion
 29 30


October
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2

3
2D Transformations
(Assign project #2)

 4 5
Aliasing & Resampling		 6 7
8 9


Columbus Day

 10


Holiday		 11 12
3D Transforms;
Part 1 - Principles		 13 14
15 16


(Project #2 due)		 17
3D Transforms;
Part 2 - Mechanics		 18 19
Viewing & Projection		 20 21
22 23

(6.838 Proposal Meetings)

 24
Clipping & Culling
(Assign project #3)		 25 26
3D Modeling & Primitives		 27 28
29 30

(6.838 Proposals due)

 31

MidTerm
(in class)


November
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
29 30 31 1 2
Visible Surface Algorithms - Part 1		 3 4
5 6


 7
Visible Surface Algorithms - Part 2		 8 (Project #3 due) 9
Illumination and Shading - Part 1
(Assign project #4)		 10


Veterans Day		 11
12 13 14
Illumination and Shading - Part 2		 15 16
Surface Textures/Texture Mapping		 17 18
19 20 21
Ray Tracing
(Assign project #5)
(6.838 Progress reports due)
 22
(Project #4 due)
Drop Date		 23


Thanksgiving

 24


Holiday

 25
26 27 28
Advanced Texture Mapping		 29 30
Texture Mapping Tricks


December
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
26 27 28 29 30 1 2
3 4 5
Topics in Computer Animation		 6


(Project #5 due)		 7
Advanced Rendering		 8


(6.838 due date)		 9
10 11 12
Special Topic
(Last class)		 13 14 15

 16
17 18
CONFLICT FINAL
(1:30pm-4:30pm)
 19
FINAL
(9:00am-12:00pm)
NEW ROOMS: 26-204 & 26-210		 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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