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 with WebGL, 7th Edition"
Edward Angel and Dave Shreiner
Click here for the textbook's website.

Grading

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

Schedule

The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.

• Wednesday, January 21
  Topic: Course Introduction
  Topic: Graphics Systems and Models
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 1
• Wednesday, January 28
  Topic: Graphics Systems and Models (cont.)
  Topic: Introduction to WebGL
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 2
• Tuesday, February 3
  Topic: Introduction to WebGL (cont.)
• Wednesday, February 4
  Topic: Introduction to WebGL (cont.)
• Tuesday, February 10
  Topic: Introduction to WebGL (cont.)
• Wednesday, February 11
  NO CLASS: FRIDAY SCHEDULE
• Tuesday, February 17
  Topic: Interaction with WebGL
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 3
• Wednesday, February 18
  Topic: Interaction with WebGL (cont.)
• Tuesday, February 24
  Topic: Vectors, Matrices, and Frames
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 4.1 - 4.5, Appendix B, Appendix C
• Wednesday, February 25
  Topic: Vectors, Matrices, and Frames (cont.)
• Tuesday, March 3
  Topic: Vectors, Matrices, and Frames (cont.)
  Topic: Affine Transformations
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 4.6 - 4.12
• Wednesday, March 4
  Topic: Affine Transformations (cont.)
• Tuesday, March 10
  Topic: Affine Transformations (cont.)
• Wednesday, March 11
  Topic: Viewing
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 5
  Project #1 assigned
• Tuesday, March 24
  Topic: Viewing (cont.)
• Wedneday, March 25
  MIDTERM
• Tuesday, March 31
  Topic: Viewing (cont.)
• Wednesday, April 1
  Topic: Viewing (cont.)
• Tuesday, April 7
  Topic: Lighting
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 6
• Wednesday, April 8
  Topic: Lighting (cont.)
• Tuesday, April 14
  Topic: Lighting (cont.)
• Wednedsay, April 15
  Topic: Texturing
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 7
• Tuesday, April 21
  Topic: Texturing (cont.)
• Tuesday, April 28
  Topic: Texturing (cont.)
• Wednesday, April 29
  Topic: Curves and Surfaces
  Suggested Reading: Angel and Shreiner, Ch. 11
• Tuesday, May 5
  Topic: Curves and Surfaces (cont.)
• Wednesday, May 6
  FINAL EXAM
• Wednesday, May 13
  FINAL PROJECT DEMOS