CS 5625 Advanced Interactive Graphics Instructor: Kavita Bala Computer Science Department, Cornell University Spring 2012

Overview   CS 5625 covers advanced graphics topics with a focus on interactive techniques. The philosophical goal of this course is to introduce students to state-of-the-art graphics technology and the interactive techniques that they enable in applications like game engines. This course serves as a follow up to any undergraduate introductory graphics course and covers the following topics in detail: the modern graphics pipeline and graphics architectures; rendering including texturing, shadowing, shading, and indirect illumination; modeling including scene representations, and level-of-detail; and basic animation techniques including particle systems. These topics are subject to change. There will be a 4-5 homeworks (written and implementations) in the course, though the main focus is the group project where each group will build an an interactive (and hopefully fun!) 3D game illustrating various concepts from the course. An introductory graphics course (for example Cornell's CS 4620) is a pre-requisite for this course.

Announcements 2/11: PA 1 is out.

Administration CS 5625 Interactive Computer Graphics 4 Cr. Times: Mo, We 2:55-4:10  Location: 205 Thurston Hall Schedule Instructor: Kavita Bala Office: 5142 Upson Office Hours: Wednesday 11:15-12:15 (and by appt) Teaching Assistants: Rohit Garg (rg534@cornell.edu) Office: Rhodes 594 Office Hours: Friday 3-4 Asher Dunn (ad488@cornell.edu) Office: Upson 328B Office Hours: Tuesday 2-3 Nick Savva (nss45@cornell.edu) Office: Rhodes 551 Office Hours: Thursday 6-7 Administrative Assistant: Randy Hess Office: 5147 Upson

Textbooks Real-Time Rendering by Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines, and Naty Hoffman Course Policies Late submissions accepted till one week after due date. Penalty of 5% per day.

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