CS 467 Schedule

Instructor: Kavita Bala

Cornell University

The following is a tentative schedule for CS 467. It is subject to change.

Please note that there are two columns of work items, for 467 and 468 respectively. Also, topics with green background will be discussed in 468 Friday lectures. 

Lecture
Date
Topic
467
468
Week 1
1
Jan. 27 Introduction (6 per page)
 
 
2
Jan. 29 Graphics Pipeline (6 per page )    
  Jan. 30  [no lecture today]    
Week 2
3
Feb. 3
Hierarchical Transforms (6 per page)
   
4
Feb. 5
Rotations/UIs (6 per page)
   
  Feb. 6 OpenGL    
Week 3
5
Feb. 10
Shading Models I (6 per page)
  PA 1: Shading/Transformations
6
Feb. 12 Shading Models II (6 per page)
HW 1: Shading/Transformations  
  Feb. 13 CG    
Week 4
7
Feb. 17
Texture Mapping I (6 per page)
   
8
Feb. 19
Texture Mapping II (6 per page)
   
  Feb. 20   [no lecture today]    
Week 5
9
Feb. 24
Texture Mapping III (6 per page)

HW 1 due

HW 2: Texture Mapping

 
10
Feb. 26
Shadows I (6 per page)
 

 

  Feb. 27 CG II: textures, mapping   PA 1 due
Week 6
11
Mar. 2
Shadows II (6 per page)
  PA 2: Shadows/Texture mapping
12
Mar. 4
Shadows and Buffers (6 per page)

HW 2 due

HW 3: Shadows

 
  Mar. 5 OpenGL Texturing     
Week 7
13
Mar. 9
Pipeline and Ray Tracing (6 per page)    
14
Mar. 11
Discussion of homeworks    
  Mar. 12   [no lecture today] HW 3 due  
Week 8
15
Mar. 16
Ray Tracing and Radiosity (6 per page)   PA 2 due

16
Mar. 18
Exam
 
  Mar. 19  [no lecture today]    
Week 9: Spring Break
Week 10
17
Mar. 30
Radiosity (6 per page)    
18
Apr. 1
Distributed Ray Tracing and Acceleration Structures (6 per page)
 
  Apr. 2 MIP Mapping and Shadow Mapping   PA 2(a): MIPMaps and Shadow Maps
Week 11
19
Apr. 6
Acceleration Structures (6 per page ) HW 4: Rendering and Acceleration Structures
20
Apr. 8
Animation I (6 per page)
 
  Apr. 9 PA 3: Game Design Proposal   PA 3: Game Design Proposal
PA 4: Animation
Week 12
21
Apr. 13
Animation II (6 per page)
 

 

PA 3 due

22
Apr. 15
Animation III (6 per page)
   
  Apr. 16 Particle Systems   PA 2(a): due

 

Week 13
23
Apr. 20
Graphics Guest Lecture HW 4 due
24
Apr. 22
Graphics Guest Lecture  
 
  Apr. 23    
Week 14
25
Apr. 27
Subdivision Surfaces (6 per page)
HW 5: Modeling PA 4 due
26 Apr. 29
NVidia Guest Lecture

 
  Apr. 30      
Week 15
27
May 4
Subdivision Surfaces (6 per page)
 
28
May 6 Conclusions HW 5 due
Week 17
Monday
May 17

 

 

 Final Project due
 Scheduled project demos

Thursday
May 20 FINAL EXAM   9:00 AM - 11:30 AM   HO 306  
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