Spring 2018 Course Information for Spring 2018
Time: TR 011:00-12:15
Place: Davis 117
Instructor Information
Prof. Bruce A. Maxwell
Office: Davis 112
Phone: 859-5854
Office hours: knock
M 9:30pm-late
R 7:30pm-late
Good times to catch me are M-F before 11am.
Course Description
An introduction to computer graphics covering 2-D graphic primitives, clipping graphic objects to boundaries, linear transformations, creating and representing 3-D objects, converting 3-D models into 2-D images, and rendering complex 3-D scenes made of thousands of polygons. Students will build a comprehensive 3-D rendering engine in sequential weekly projects for which they generate images and develop portfolios of their own work.
Textbooks
P. Shirley, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, 4th ed, AK Peters Ltd, 2015.