BU CAS CS 580: Advanced Computer Graphics

Lecture Schedule -- subject to change


Sep
   2  T introduction			C1
   4  R animation concepts, splines     C15
   9  T splines				C3
   11 R rotation and quaternions	
   16 T anti-aliasing in space & time	C4	P0 due	
   18 R particle animation 		A1 	
   23 T particle animation 		A2	P1 due	
   25 R collision and contact		A3	
   30 T springs, constraints		A4
Oct
   2  R constraint-based animation	
   7  T	articulated figures             C16	P2 due	
   9  R soft object animation           C17
   14 T No Class: Monday Schedule
   16 R texture modeling		C6
   21 T procedural texture  		C7	
   23 R procedural texture
   28 T	animating fluids, fire, smoke		P3 due	
   30 R lighting review 		C2	
Nov
   4  T ray tracing 	 		C8      
   6  R ray tracing			C9	
   11 T ray tracing			C10	P4 due	
   13 R advanced lighting models		
   18 T radiosity			C11	
   20 R global illumination models	C12	
   25 T radiosity solution
Dec 
   2  T practical radiosity methods
   4  R volume rendering		C13
   9  T	virtual sculpting, blob models		P5 due
   11 R	tba					

Stan Sclaroff
Created: December 5, 1995
Modified: October 5, 1997