CS 466 Computer Graphics II

Instructor: Ugur Güdükbay (Room 524)
Office Hours: Tuesday 8:40-10:30
Course Schedule: Tuesday 11:40, Thursday 13:40, 14:40 (EB-203)
Course Assistant: Funda Durupinar (Room 511, Tel: 1945)
Assistant's Office Hours: Wednesday 10:40-12:00 Thursday 10:40-12:00
Course Homepage: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~gudukbay/cs466/index.html.

Please visit the course homepage frequently to see the announcements about the course and assignments.

1. Geometric Modeling: Modeling Curves, Surfaces and Solids
2. Introduction to Animation
3. Superquadrics
4. Deformations: Regular Deformations and Free-Form Deformations
5. Advanced Raytracing
6. Radiosity
7. Global Illumination Models
8. Volume Rendering
9. Fractal and Graftal Models
10. Animating Articulated Structures
11. Physically-Based Modeling and Animation
12. Surface Approximation Methods
13. Subdivision Surfaces
14. Stereo Computer Graphics

TEXTBOOK INFO

Main Textbooks:

1. Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques, Watt, Alan and Watt, Mark, Addison-Wesley, 1992.
2. Fundamentals of Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics, Watt, Alan, Addison-Wesley, 1989.

Other Texts and Sources

1. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition. Foley, van Dam, Feiner, Hughes. Addison-Wesley, 1990.
2. Computer Graphics, Hearn and Baker, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1994.
3. An Introduction to Ray Tracing, Glassner, A., Academic Press, 1989.
4. Radiosity: A Programmer's Perspective, Ashdown, I., Wiley, 1994.
5. An Introduction to Physically-Based Modeling, ACM SIGGRAPH'95 Course Notes.
6. Dynamic Behaviors for Real-Time Synthetic Humans, ACM SIGGRAPH'95 Course Notes.
7. An Introduction to Subdivision Surfaces, ACM SIGGRAPH'2000 Course Notes.

GRADING: (Tentative)
Midterm I 20 %, Final 30 %, A project 40 %, Attendance and Class Participation 10 %

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