91.546 Computer Graphics I

Spring Semester 2012

Last update: February 8, 2012

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Course Information

Programming Environment

Schedule at a Glance

Grading

Syllabus

Schedule and Assignments

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Course Information

Instructor:	Dr. Hugh Masterman The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA  Email: hcm@mitre.org
Location:	Olsen 404
Time:	Tuesdays 5:30 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
Texts:	Required: Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with OpenGL Sixth Edition Edward Angel Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-13-254523-3 OpenGL Programming Guide Seventh Edition Dave Schreiner Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-321-55262-8

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Programming Environment

This course will take a "top down" approach to computer graphics, with an emphasis on graphics programming at the API level. The textbook and classroom examples will use OpenGL, a widely implemented and accepted API. For consistency, students are expected to use the OpenGL API and the C (or C++) language in completion of the short programming assignments.

It is anticipated that some programming using the GL Shading Language will be expected.

See the OpenGL Homepage for information on free downloadable versions for a variety of platforms and operating systems.

Setting up an OpenGL Environment in Microsoft Visual Studio.NET
(Obsolete - based upon Visual Studio 2003)

Nitin Sonawane offers these instructions for setting up a Linux OpenGL Environment.

Here are the required files for a Microsoft OpenGL environment:

OpenGL32.lib

glu32.lib

glut32.lib

opengl32.dll

glu32.dll

glut32.dll

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Grading

This course will focus on graphics programming. There will be four or five programming assignments and a midterm exam at about the eighth week of the course. Seventy five percent of the grade will be determined by the programming assignments taken together, and twenty five percent by the midterm. Class participation is encouraged, and will only be considered as a positive factor in grading.

Academic Honesty

The majority of the grade for this course is based upon programs submitted as solutions to the short projects and the final project. I expect all code submitted by students in this course to be their own. In exceptional circumstances, it is permissible to borrow appropriate small sections of code from other authors. Whenever this is done, the student must provide appropriate reference. Reference must include the author of the code and a location that I can use to check the source. References should take the form of comments within the code  that delineate exactly what lines were used.  In other words, there should be a comment at the beginning and end of the borrowed code.  Submissions that include copied but unreferenced code will receive zero credit.  Return to Index.

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Syllabus

• Introduction to Graphics
  • Applications
  • Reference models
  • Graphics hardware
  • Architectures and piplines
• Graphics Programming
  • API design consideration
  • Introduction to OpenGL API
  • Primitives
  • Attributes
  • Viewing
  • Control and window functions
• Input and Interaction
  • Input devices
  • Interaction models
  • Interactive program design
• Geometrical Transformations
  • Geometric modeling
  • Homogeneous coordinates
  • Affine transformations
  • Rotation, translation and scaling
  • Composition of transformation
• Viewing in 3D
  • Synthetic camera model
  • Parallel and perspective projection
  • Hidden surface removal: z buffer
• Lighting and Shading
  • Illumination models
  • Phong and Gouraud shading
• Textures and Images
  • Texture mapping
  • Bitmap operations
• Alternate graphics paradigms
  • Scene graph Languages
  • Web graphics

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Summary Schedule for Spring 2012

Key Dates

• Jan. 24 - First Class
• TBD - Midterm Exam
• May 1- Last Class
• TBD - Last Assignment due

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Course Schedule and Assignments

Week	Material Covered	Assignment
1 Jan. 24	Introduction to Graphics Charts (PDF)	Read Angel Chapter 1 Skip 1.2.5 - 1.2.7
2 Jan. 31	Graphics Programming APIs Charts (PDF) Code Example.	Read OpenGL Programming Guide Chapter 1, Chapter 2 up to p. 60.
3 Feb. 7	Input Charts (PDF) Code Example Event Tester Code	Read Angel Chapter/Section 2.11 Review Appendices B and C for linear algebra background
4 Feb. 14
5 Feb. 21
6 Feb. 28
7 Mar. 6
8 Mar. 13	Spring Break: No Class
9 Mar. 20
10 Mar. 27
11 Apri. 3
12 Apr. 10
13 Apr. 17
14 Apr. 24
15 May 1

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