-- CS33400/ECE30834 (Spring 2025) --
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
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Instructor: Daniel G. Aliaga (aliaga@cs.purdue.edu)
Classroom: LWSN B155
Time: TTh @ 10:30-11:45am
Office hours: arrange by email
TAs: Zhanyu Yang (yang2334@purdue.edu) and Yuchen Liu (liu3853@purdue.edu)
TA office hours: Monday 4-6pm (Zhanyu, DSAI B055), Thursday 4:30-6:30pm (Yuchen, DSAI B055)
Class communication: Piazza
Course Information: [PDF]
TENTATIVE Schedule:
Week of Jan 13
Course Organization, Graphics and its History
Graphics Libraries, Vector/Matrix Math
Friday: Assignment #0 out (1 week) [a0_base.zip]
Week of Jan 20
Special OpenGL session Tue Jan 21, 6-8pm in LILY G420 [Slides]
Vector/Matrix Math
Friday: Assignment #0 due, Assignment #1 out [a1_base_freeglut.zip] (2 weeks)
Week of Jan 27
Graphics Pipeline: Rasterization, Shading, and Lighting
Week of Feb 3
GPU Programming: GPU-Basics, GLSL Primer, GPU-Sim
More on GLSL: [learnopengl.com]
Friday: Assignment #1 due, Assignment #2 out [a2-base.zip] (2 weeks)
Week of Feb 10
Texture Mapping: projection, environment, bump, and shadow mapping
Week of Feb 17
Data Structures and Spatial Hierarchies
Friday: Assignment #2 due, Assignment #3 out [a3-base.zip] (3 weeks)
Week of Feb 24
Week of Mar 3
March 4: review in class
March 6: no class at regular time, instead:
Midterm: March 6, 8-9:30pm, KRAN G016
Week of Mar 10
Friday: Assignment #3 due, Assignment #4 out [a4-base.zip] (3 weeks)
Week of Mar 17
SPRING BREAK
Week of Mar 24
Voronoi Diagrams & Triangulation
Final Project setup
Final Project out (~5 weeks)
Week of Mar 31
Colors and Perception
Assignment #4 due
Week of April 7
Final Project Fast Forward
Week of April 14
Global Illumination
Week of April 21
Image processing
Final Project Demos! (April 20-21 evening)
Week of April 28
Review for Final
Final Project Demos: May 1st-3rd
(TBD)
Final Exam: TBD