ECE 462: Interactive Engineering Grahpics

• Instructor Info
• Textbook
• Grading
• Schedule

Instructor Info

Instructor: Carl Sable
e-mail: CarlSable.Cooper@gmail.com
Office: Room 614

Textbook

"Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach ith Shader-Based OpenGL, 6th Edition"
Edward Angel and Dave Shreiner
Click here for the textbook's website.
Click here for the steps that worked for me to compile the textbook's code using Cygwin.
Click here for the steps that worked for me to compile the textbook's code using VC++.

Grading

• Midterm: 25%
• Final: 25%
• Programming Project #1: 25%
• Programming Project #2: 25%

Schedule

The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.

• Thursday, January 24
  Topic: Course Introduction
  Topic: Graphics Systems and Models
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 1
• Wednesday, January 30
  Topic: Graphics Systems and Models (cont.)
• Thursday, January 31
  Topic: Introduction to OpenGL
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 2
• Wednesday, February 6
  Topic: Introduction to OpenGL (cont.)
• Thursday, February 7
  Topic: Introduction to OpenGL (cont.)
  Click here for my triangle drawing program discussed in class.
  Topic: Vectors, Matrices, and Frames
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 3.1 - 3.5, Appendix B, Appendix C
• Wednesday, February 13
  NO CLASS: FRIDAY SCHEDULE
• Thursday, February 14
  Topic: Vectors, Matrices, and Frames (cont.)
• Wednesday, February 20
  Topic: Vectors, Matrices, and Frames (cont.)
• Thursday, February 21
  Topic: Vectors, Matrices, and Frames (cont.)
  Topic: Affine Transformations
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 3.6 - 3.12
• Wednesday, February 27
  Topic: Affine Transformations (cont.)
• Thursday, February 28
  Topic: Affine Transformations (cont.)
• Wednesday, March 6
  Topic: Viewing
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 4
• Thursday, March 7
  Topic: Viewing (cont.)
• Wednesday, March 13
  Topic: Viewing (cont.)
• Thursday, March 14
  MIDTERM
• Wedneday, March 27
  Topic: Viewing (cont.)
• Thursday, March 28
  Topic: Viewing (cont.)
• Wednesday, April 10
  Topic: Lighting
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 5
• Thursday, April 11
  Topic: Lighting (cont.)
• Wednesday, April 17
  Topic: Lighting (cont.)
• Thursday, April 18
  Topic: Texturing
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 7
• Wednesday, April 24
  Topic: Texturing (cont.)
• Thursday, April 25
  Topic: Texturing (cont.)
• Wednesday, May 1
  Topic: Curves and Surfaces
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 10
• Thursday, May 2
  Topic: Curves and Surfaces (cont.)
• Wednesday, May 8
  Topic: Curves and Surfaces (cont.)
• Thursday, May 9
  FINAL EXAM