Computer Graphics

CMPS 415 / CSCE 515

Celtic knots: cover feature of IEEE TVCG Vol. 16, No. 1, 2010.

General Information | Resources | Mesh Models & Viewer | Halfedge Mesh Library

General Information

Instructor
Dr. Miao Jin
Email: mxj9809@louisiana.edu
Office hours: TR 1:30pm - 3:30pm Oliver Hall 237

TA
Sam Ekong
Email: samekong@gmail.com

Times & Places
TR 3:30pm - 4:45pm, Oliver Hall 117

Objectives
This course will cover the basic concepts, mathematical foundations, fundamental theory and algorithms, software techniques, hardware and system issues, and application examples of computer graphics.

Emphasize a ``hands-on'' approach to both the better understanding of graphics concept/theory/algorithms and the effective use of graphics techniques in various applications.

Prerequisites
Computer science background: data structures, programming languages and skills (such as C/C++).
Mathematics background: linear algebra, and basic analytic geometry.

References
"Interactive Computer Graphics: a Top-Down Approach With Shader-Based OpenGL", Edward Angel, Dave Shreiner, 6th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2012.
"Computer Graphics with OpenGL", Hearn, Baker, and Carithers, 4th Edition. Prentice Hall, 2011.
"Open GL Programming Guide", Kessenich, Sellers, Shreiner, 9th Edition. Addison-Wesley, 2016.
"Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley 1995.

Grading

30% Assignments

40% Projects

20% Final demo

5% Report

5% Class participation

Projects

Use OpenGL to develop a basic triangular mesh viewer. Provide interactive mouse control for rotating, zooming, and translating objects. Implement Phong lighting, Phong shading, and transparency.

Implement a basic ray tracer. Scene objects should include spheres and triangular mesh models.Scene should include refractive, reflective, and diffused models.

Triangular mesh parametrization and texture mapping

Resources

SIGGRAPH course - An Introduction to OpenGL Programming by Dr. Edward Angel: video

SIGGRAPH course - High Quality Rendering using Ray Tracing and Photon Mapping by Dr. Per H. Christensen and Dr. Henrik Wann Jensen: pdf

Ray Tracing Software: Povray

Mesh Models

Mesh models with .m format

Animal: Bunny, Camel, Frog, Pig

Human: Bima, Buddha, David (with spherical coordinates), Max, Venus, Skull

Topology: Torus (with normal), Knot, Eight

Mesh Viewer (.m format)

G3dOGL.exe

Usage of G3dOGL: G3dOGL.txt

For more mesh models, check these sites. They may have different formats, so you need to use converter.exe to convert their formats from .obj or .wrl to .m files. Usage of converter.exe can be found here: converter.txt.

AIM@SHAPE
3D Cafe
Ultimate 3D Links
Amazing 3D Graphics

Halfedge Mesh Library

For course project, you can download here: Simple Mesh library

Halfedge Mesh library on the Internet

OpenMesh

CGAL

General Purpose Mesh Library

GNU Triangulated Surface Library