8/20/2003CS 770 – Administrivia Lecture 0 1 Administrivia Course Description Grades Homework Programming Exams Quiz

8/20/2003CS 770 – Administrivia Lecture 0 2 CS 670/770 – Introduction to Computer Graphics Techniques of computer image synthesis, including both hardware & software. Line drawing and color raster graphics. Homogeneous coordinates, hidden surface elimination and smooth shading algorithms. Ray tracing, anti-aliasing. Pre-requisities: graduate standing Text: Foley, van Dam, Feiner & Hughes, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice Supplement: Newman & Sproull, Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, 2 nd edition

8/20/2003CS 770 – Administrivia Lecture 0 3 Programming This is not a course in programming, but you will do a lot of it. Everyone is expected to be fluent in C++. We will use OpenGL (any reference will do) and (for one assignment) Java. All homework assignment will be done using CS machines (demos must run on Solaris machines). Preliminary work may be done on other machines, but beware of differences in OpenGL versions and capabilities. Perhaps...demos may be made available on Windows boxes, but in that case you will be responsible for working out the details.

8/20/2003CS 770 – Administrivia Lecture 0 4 Laboratory Open, vulnerable environment. “Anti-social behavior will not be tolerated” Protect yourself (but you will be required to make your CS770 directory world readable) See: ~sloan/CS770/Assignments/HW0

8/20/2003CS 770 – Administrivia Lecture 0 5 Exams Open book – the textbook Open Notes – your notes Mid-term (in class) – schedule TBA Final – see UAB Calendar

8/20/2003CS 770 – Administrivia Lecture 0 6 Project Cool demo The only rule is: make me say “cool!” Should take up the entire last half of the semester...so go through the HW’s quickly!

8/20/2003CS 770 – Administrivia Lecture 0 7 Syllabus See Table of Contents for text Read Chapters 1-4, now...and keep going Classroom lectures will bounce around a bit, and will usually present a different view – often quite different – from that in the textbook

8/20/2003CS 770 – Administrivia Lecture 0 8 Quiz Given: Point(x0,y0) Write: Line(x0,y0,x1,y1) x0,y0 x1,y1 Any language First cut No bells/whistles