CIS 554: Advanced Computer Graphics
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Instructor
Li Shen
Office: Dion 307A
Phone: (508) 910-6691
Email: lshen@umassd.edu
Office Hours: Tue 8:30-10am, Thu 8:30-10am, Fri 12-1pm (or by appointment)
Lectures
Tue and Thu, 15:30-16:45pm, Dion 101
Prerequisites
CIS 454 (Computer Graphics) or equivalent, or permission of instructor
Course Objectives
- To study advanced 3D rendering topics including hidden surface elimination, surface shading, texture mapping, color, and lighting.
- To study advanced 3D geometric modeling topics including progressive meshes, surface parameterization, and multi-resolution modeling.
- To provide students with programming experiences in selected computer graphics topics.
Course Description
Three-dimensional graphics including: color, shading, shadowing and texture, hidden surface algorithms. An extensive project will be assigned, including documentation and presentation.
Course Materials
- Textbooks
- Important Web Links
- Recommended References
Homework
- Homework assignments will be posted online. Homework is due at the beginning of class on the announced due date. Any exceptions must be approved by the instructor in advance. Late homework will not be accepted.
- Some of the exercises will be routine, but others will be more challenging. I hope that you will benefit from working on the more difficult ones.
- I encourage discussion of homework assignments between students. However, your submitted homework must be entirely your own. You may not copy anything directly from another student's work. You should note with whom you discussed the problem at the beginning of your solution write-up. Note that discussion between two students will be most useful when both students have already made serious attempts to solve the problem on their own.
Requirements and Grading
There will be homework assignments, a class presentation, a term project, a midterm exam, and a final exam. Class attendance is mandatory. You are responsible for all announcements and for all material presented in the lecture sessions. Come prepared for class and read the assigned material in advance of lectures. After the lecture, re-read the material. The evaluation will be based on:
- Homework: 25%
- Presentation: 10%
- Term project: 15%
- Midterm exam: 20%
- Final exam: 25%
- Class participation: 5%
The letter grades will be assigned using the following approximate scale: (A+,A,A-)[100-90], (B+, B, B-)[90-80], (C+,C,C-)[80-70], (D+,D,D-)[70-60], and F[60-0].
Important Dates
- 03/16/06 (in class): Midterm exam
- 05/19/06 (3-6pm Friday): Final exam
Academic Honesty
- The UMass Dartmouth Academic Ethical Standards and Student Judicial Code apply to your conduct in this course. Please refer to the following materials for details.
- All work submitted for credit must be your own. You may, however, discuss your homework assignments and term project with your classmates and Professor Shen.
- For written homeworks, you should writeup your own solutions and neither read nor copy another person's solution or portions of their solution - this includes solutions from any web page (other than our class web page) that you find on the web.
- For programs, you should create and type in your own code, and any copying (electronic or otherwise) of another person's code or code fragments is a violation of the Academic Ethical Standards.
- You cannot collaborate or copy in any way on exams.
- If you have any questions as to whether some action would be acceptable under the Academic Ethical Standards, please speak to me, and I will be glad to help clarify things. It is always easier to ask beforehand than to have trouble later!
Disability Statement
If you have a disability and feel you will need accommodation in order to complete course requirements, please contact Office of Disabled Student Services, Group I, Lower Level.