CS 5625 Advanced Interactive Graphics Instructor: Kavita Bala Computer Science Department, Cornell University Spring 2013

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. 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 4/9: PA5 has been released, due date 4/17 11:59pm. 4/1: PA4 has been released, due date 4/8 11:59pm. 3/1: PA3 has been released, due date 3/12 11:59pm. 2/16: PA2 has been released, due date 2/28 11:59pm. 2/4: PA1 has been released, due date 2/13 11:59pm.

Administration CS 5625 Interactive Computer Graphics 4 Cr. Times: Tu, Th 10:10-11:25am  Location: 110 Hollister Hall Schedule Instructor: Kavita Bala Office: 5142 Upson Office Hours: Tu 11:30-12:30 (and by appt) Teaching Assistants: Ivaylo Boyadhziev (iboy@cs.cornell.edu) Office: Upson 4121 Office Hours: We 11:15-12:15, Th 1-2pm John DeCorato Office: CSUGLab Office Hours: Tu, We 5-6pm Sean Ryan Office: CSUGLab Office Hours: Mo, Fr 3-4pm Administrative Assistant: Randy Hess Office: 5147 Upson

Textbooks Real-Time Rendering by Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines, and Naty Hoffman The third edition is available as an ebook via the library (link). Search for "Real-Time Rendering". Or authenticate at the link above, and then directly go to this link OpenGL 4.0 Shading Language Cookbook by David Wolff Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice by Mike Bailey and Steve Cunningham GPU Pro 2 Edited by Wolfgang Engel Course Policies You can have 3 free late days over the semester (applies to all) Otherwise, 10% penalty per day for maximum of 5 days (then 0 on an assignment)

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