Instructor:	Dr. Andrew Duchowski
Office:	Edwards 444, 656-7677, andrewd@cs.clemson.edu
Office hours:	TTh 3:30--4:30 (or by appointment)
Email:	Communication with the instructor via email is encouraged. It is unlikely that a talk request will be answered, however.
Required texts:	Watt, Alan and Watt, Mark, Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice, Addison-Wesley, 1992. ISBN: 0201544121
Recommended texts:	Woo, Mason, Neider, Jackie, and Davis, Tom, OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN: 0201461382 Foley, James D., van Dam, Andries, Feiner, Steven K., and Hughes, John F., Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1990. ISBN: 0201848406 Glassner, Andrew S., ed., An Introduction to Ray Tracing, Academic Press, 1989. ISBN: 0122861604
Supplemental texts:	None.
Grading scheme:	Based on programming assignments, final project, 1 or 2 midterms, and the final exam.
Grade distribution:	Projects 60% Midterm(s) 20% Final Exam 20% % Grade 90-100 A 80-89 B 70-79 C 60-69 D < 60 F
Programming assignments:	Problem specification and due date will be given in class.
Assignment grading:	Source code and demonstrations will be required.
Assignment format:	Hardcopy of the assignment must include the following: Description of the problem. Description of the solution. Documentation of the program (e.g., user documentation).
Assignment late policy:	Late assignments will be accepted up to a week late, but points will be deducted by 20% per working day late. The effective date of the assignment is the date of its receipt (not its delivery). Example: assuming assignments are due on Thursday, the point deduction is as follows: % Day received 100% Thursday (due date) 80% Friday 60% Monday 40% Tuesday 20% Wednesday 0% Thursday (1 week late) Late assignments will receive lowest priority for grading and returning.
Attendance:	Roll will be taken for the first one or two weeks while the class roll fluctuates. However, attendance is not required. Absence, excused or not, does not change the responsibility for assigned work. Tests missed due to excused absences will normally result in the test not being counted in the average grade (i.e., there will normally be no makeup tests). An unexcused absence from a test will normally result in a grade of zero for that test. Students are expected to give at least one week advance notice for excused absences.
Independent work:	Unless otherwise stated explicitly (e.g., in the case of the final project), each student must do his or her work independently.
Academic dishonesty:	The University policies on academic dishonesty apply. Publicly-available code or other material may be freely used if appropriately attributed. Each student is responsible for protecting his or her files from access by others. Work that is essentially the same and submitted without proper attribution is considered to be a violation of academic dishonesty policy by all those submitting the work, regardless of who actually did the work.
Class cancelation:	Students are expected to wait for 15 minutes after the class beginning time before leaving if the instructor is late.
Course description:	The course will cover computer graphics methods, data structures, analysis of algorithms, and selected implementation examples, generally coinciding the main programming assignments assigned throughout the term: Project I: Ray tracer Objectives: basic ray tracing supersampling progressive display techniques Relevant source material: Glassner Foley, van Dam Project II: Mesh viewer Objectives: global illumination review, "sub-OpenGL" implementation data structures (winged-edge) multiresolution methods Relevant source material: selected papers Project III: Fractal terrain Objectives: fractal mountain Relevant source material: selected papers Project IV: Physically-based modeling Objectives: particle systems (e.g., for cloud generation) jell-o cube Relevant source material: selected papers Additional topics will be selected as time permits.