CPSC 815 Special Effects Production
Fall 2000
<http://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/courses/cpsc815/fall00/sched.html>

12:30-1:45TTH Jordan G032

Schedule
(Tentative)

DateL#Topic
Thu. Aug.2401 Introduction; course overview
Tue. Aug.2902 Image compositing
Thu. Aug.3103 Image compositing
Tue. Sep.0504 The Gimp
Thu. Sep.0705 Image representation (channels and layers), RGB color space
Tue. Sep.1206 File formats (headers, data), compression schemes (lossy, lossless, etc.)
Thu. Sep.1407 Image I/O, memory storage
Tue. Sep.1908 Image filtering
Project 1 (The Gimp) due
Thu. Sep.2109 Image mapping
Tue. Sep.2610 Image mapping
Thu. Sep.2811 Image warping
Tue. Oct.0312 Image warping
Thu. Oct.0513 Image morphing
Tue. Oct.1014 Image morphing
Thu. Oct.1215 Convolution and image filtering
Project 2 (Image Manip Tool: rotate/scale) due
Tue. Oct.1716 Convolution and image filtering
Thu. Oct.1917 Spatial frequency analysis
Tue. Oct.2418 Sampling theorem
Project 3 (Image Manip Tool: image warp) due
Thu. Oct.2619 Fourier transform
Tue. Oct.3120 Fourier transform
Project 4 (Image Manip Tool: wavelets) due
Thu. Nov.0221 Pyramidal image representation
Tue. Nov.07-- Fall break
Thu. Nov.0922 Wavelet transform
Tue. Nov.1423 Temporal frequency analysis
Thu. Nov.1624 Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)
Tue. Nov.2125 Image and video compression revisited
Thu. Nov.23-- Thanksgiving
Tue. Nov.2826 Maya Composer
Thu. Nov.3027 Maya Composer
Tue. Dec.0528 Maya Composer
Project 4 (Maya Composer: several short labs) due
Thu. Dec.0729 Maya Composer
Thu. Dec.1330 Final animation due
Project presentations 6:30-9:30pm