MV - 4202: Computer Graphics

Course Content

OpenGL Programming in the Win32 Environment

• Introduction to OpenGL (Chapter 1)
• OpenGL Command Syntax
• OpenGL State Machine
• OpenGL Libraries

Basic Rendering and Color (Chapters 2 and 4)

• Color Specification and Use
• Graphics Primitives
• Drawing Primitives
• Polygon Filling

Transformations (Chapter 3)

• Elementary Transformations
• Viewing and Modeling Transformations
• Projection Transformations
• Viewport Transformations

Display Lists (Chapter 7)

• Creating Display Lists
• Recording Display Lists

Font Rendering (Chapter 8)

• Bitmap Characters
• Stroke Characters
• Executing Display Lists

Quadric Objects (Chapter 11)

• Quadric Objects
• Attributes
• Spheres, Cylinders, and Disks

Selection (Chapter 13)

• Selection Buffer
• Rendering Modes
• Name Stack
• Picking Matrix

Lighting (Chapter 5)

• Material Properties
• Light Sources
• Light Model

Frame Buffer (Chapter 10)

• Raster Graphics
• Hidden Surface Elimination
• Decals

Fog (Chapter 6)

• Fog and Depth Queuing
• Linear and Exponential

Vertex Arrays (Chapter 2)

• Enabling Arrays
• Specifying Array Data
• Using Array Data
• Interleaved Arrays

Texture Mapping (Chapter 9)

• Textures
• Texture Objects
• Scaling Textures
• Mipmaps
• Texture Environment (Minification and Magnification)
• Texture Modes
• Assigning Texture Coordinates

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Projects and Tests

CS-4202 is a project based course.   Forty-five percent of the student's grade is based upon performance within a group implementing a chosen class project.

Project Description

There will be one test in approximately week ten, which will count for 25% of the total grade.   The test will consist mainly of discussion questions and writing code snipets.   Testable topics will include beginning graphics concepts and the OpenGL concepts covered in class.   The best preparation is looking at previous quarters' tests.

Labs

It is intended that this course will be hands on to as great an extent as possible.   Nine organized lab periods will be conducted for the first nine weeks of the quarter.   The labs are designed to familiarize students with the OpenGL API and prepare them for their projects.   Each lab is designed to be completed during a two-hour lab period.  

Performance in labs makes up the remaining 30% of the class grade. Lab grading will be as follows:

• Each lab will be worth 3%.   To get full credit, the student must demonstrate all aspects of the previous week's lab to me at the start of the lab period.
• Failure to demonstrate the previous lab at the beginning of lab period will result in a loss of 1.5% of the class grade.   Failure to demonstrate that lab by the beginning of the next lab period will result in the loss of the other 1.5%.
• If a student will not be at the beginning of a lab period, he/she must contact me prior to the start of the lab and deliver the completed lab (as a compressed file via e-mail) prior to the start of the lab period. If students have hardships which prevent completing the labs on time, they should contact me as soon as possible.
• Students who feel that they might not complete the lab on time are advised to contact me early for extra instruction.
• Nine labs at 3% is 27%.   The final 3% will be awarded to all students who have have either zero or one lab late in the course of the quarter.

MV-4202 labs

Important Dates: 

• Week 4 - Students choose groups for projects
• Week 6 - Students choose topics
• Week 10 - Final exam


• Week 11 - Class presentations during the last lab period

                 - All deliverables due on day of presentation

This page last updated on 17 October 2001 and is maintainted by Perry McDowell © Copyright 2001, All rights reserved.
If you have comments or suggestions, e-mail me at mcdowell@cs.nps.navy.mil