January 2012							Topics covered in lectures	Readings (3rd Ed.)	Readings (4th Ed.)
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Introduction Scan conversion of lines and other 2D primitives	Ch 1, 2, 3	Ch 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
22	23	24 H1 due	25	26	27	28	Area fill Attributes, anti-aliasing, frame buffer ops.	Ch 3, 4	Ch 5, 6
29	30	31					2D transformations	Ch 5	Ch 7
February 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1	2 No class	3	4		Ch 5	Ch 7
5	6 P1 due	7	8	9	10	11	2D and 3D transformations Quaternions	Ch 5	Ch 9
12	13	14 H2 due	15	16	17	18	2D Viewing pipeline Clipping graphics primitives	Ch 6	Ch 8
19	20	21 No class	22	23	24	25	3D viewing	Ch 7	Ch 10
26	27 P2 due	28	29				3D viewing and clipping	Ch 7	Ch 10
March 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1	2	3	Collision detection , spatial data structures	Ch 7	Ch 10, 15.4, 15.5
4	5	6	7	8 Exam	9	10	Tue: Hierarchical models, display lists Thu: mid-term exam (in class)	Ch 14	Ch 11
11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Winter break
18	19	20	21	22	23	24	3D object representations	Ch 8	Ch 13, 15.2,15.3
25	26	27	28	29	30	31	Spline curves and surfaces	Ch 8	Ch 14
April 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2 P3 due	3	4	5	6	7	Visible surface detection Ray casting, spatial data structures	Ch 9	Ch 16
8	9	10 H3 due	11	12	13	14	Illumination equation, BRDF Ray tracing, reflectance, transmission, color	Ch 10	Ch 17
15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Shadows Texture maps, bump maps, environment maps	Ch 10	Ch 17, 18
22	23	24	25	26	27	28	Polygon rendering	Ch 10	Ch 17
29	30 P4 due							Ch 10	Ch 21
May 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1	2	3	4	5	Global illumination	Ch 10	Ch 21
6	7	8 Exam	9	10	11	1 2	Tue: Final exam: 9-11am (room TBA)