CSE 472 Computer Graphics

Spring, 2009

Yiying Tong, instructor, ytong@msu.edu 

This is the home page for CSE 472: Computer Graphics.. CSE 472 is taught in the spring of each year.  This course will study the use of computer graphics for image and animation creation. Students will study 3D modeling and rendering. We will learn how to create and render 3D images and animations. We will also study the underlying mechanisms used by various rendering technologies.

The course syllabus is available in PDF format.

The Lab Exam will be held in 3 sessions. (Wednesday-Friday March 25-27, 6:30-9:30 in the BONE lab, EB3203). Your TA Jonathan will be in contact with you. Please send him your preferences for the session. See Lab Exam Material below for examples.

Course resources

• Lab Exam Material
• Course syllabus
• Installing COpenGLWnd
• Installing CGrCamera camera control class
• The graphics.zip collection of graphics files we'll use
• My CSE 472 Rants Page
• Honors Option Options
• Texture Images
• Transparency in OpenGL 
• The Big Honkin' Ray Tracing Tutorial
• Sample code for Step 7
• Links to other course websites:
•     Stanford
•     MIT
•     CMU
•     Berkeley
•     Caltech
•     UIUC
•     Cornell
•     Columbia
•     USC

Example materials

• SphereMesh example
• Particle systems demonstration program

Demonstration Programs

• Viewing demonstration program
          View frustums and the viewing process
• Parallel Projection demonstration program
          See examples of parallel projection
• ColorModel demonstration program
          RGB and HLS colors models
• VisibleRay demonstration program
          Ray tracing and color models demonstration 
• Curves demonstration program (now with source)
          Hermite, Bezier, and Spline curves.experimentation 

Notice:  The demonstration programs assume the Visual Studio 2005 runtime is available on your machine.  If you do not have Visual Studio 2005 installed, you can install the runtime using this installer.  Please contact me if you have difficulties running any of the this code.

Lecture sets

    0.   CSE 472 Computer Graphics 1-12-09 

1. OpenGL Basics 1-14-09
2. Virtual Camera  1-21-09
3. Geometric Transformations 1-28-09
4. Texture Mapping 2-02-09
5. Scene Graph Data Structure 2-04-09
6. Projections 2-09-09
7. Light and Color 2-11-09
8. Illumination and Shading 2-23-09
9. Shading Model 2-23-09
10. Ray Tracing 2-25-09
11. Fun with Ray Tracing 3-02-09
12. More Maps 3-16-09
13. Animation 3-18-09
14. Curves I 3-25-09
15. Curves II 4-1-09
16. Curves III 4-1-09
17. Particle System 4-13-09

Notice: Some lecture sets are very large because they contain a large number of images. 

I'm always trying to make lectures better, so if see something in class that is not on these sets, it's because I added it after posting the lectures.  I try to update them online if they change. 

Steps

The grades will be posted on angel.msu.edu

1. Introduction to Visual Studio, MFC, and OpenGL Due 1-21-09

2. Working in 3D Due 1-28-09 

3. Introduction to Lighting Due 2-4-09

4. Texture Mapping Due 2-11-09

5. Scene Graphs Due 2-18-09

6. Triangle Meshes and Graphics Files Due 3-4-09

7. The Big Honkin' Ray Tracing Tutorial Due 4-1-09

8. Fun with the Poisson Distribution Due 4-10-09

9. Curved Surface Patches Optional, Due 4-28-09

All Steps are due at 11:59pm on the listed due date.

1. Project 1 - The CSE 472 2009 Regatta Due 3-20-09

2. Project 2 - Ray Tracing Due 4-15-09 Postponed to 4-22-09

3. Project 3 - Final Project Due 5-3-09