News

• 29/06/2009 - Exam checked and submitted to secretaries, see details here
• 29/06/2009 - Exercise 3 grades publsihed here!
• 10/06/2009 - 3 day extension to exercise three. This weekend is all I can give you so make use of it!
• 02/06/2009 - Added a lot of interesting links here
• 25/5/2009 - Grades for 2nd exercise are here!
• 19/5/2009 - Grades for first exercise are here ,grades for 2nd exercise coming very soon. Sorry for the delay.
• 30/04/2009 - Published third exercise
• 06/04/2009 - Added Shy's lesson to the lectures page. Hag Sameach!
• 31/3/2009 - Published second exercise
• 22/3/2009 - Updated lectures page (with slides from lesson 3 and 4)
• 10/3/2009 - Published first exercise
• 23/2/2009 - First lecture is next week
• 23/2/2009 - Here are some screenshots from projects #2 and #3 last year (Ray tracer and QBert 3D)

Classroom: Physics (Shenkar) 104

Teacher

Lior Shapira, office in Schreiber M21 (Graphics lab), reception hour Tuesdays 16:00-17:00, email is liors [at] post [dot] tau [dot] ac [dot] il

OpenGL and Exercises - Shy Shalom (shoosh [dot] cg [at] gmail [dot] com)

Exam

1. Multiple choice questions (american)
2. Definitions - explain concepts/algorithms that we've learned
3. Questions about the exercises

Final Grade Calculation

• Note that even without bonuses the maximum grade is 105 (I added 5% to the exercises).
• All students who are submitting exercise 3 late (reserve duty etc.) got 260 for now, the grade will be corrected once they submit the exercise and we check it.
• The exam and its solution can be found here.
  

Course Overview

This is a fundamental course in computer graphics. We use the term 'computer graphics' loosely, and include within it almost anything which can be generated and displayed on a computer screen (or some other display device). During the course we will cover as much of these topics as possible:

• Image Processing
• Raster graphics
• Half toning
• Scan conversion
• Rendering
• Affine transformations
• Projections
• Filling and flooding
• Clipping
• Hidden surface removal
• Shading
• Ray tracing
• Texture mapping
• Radiosity
• Modeling
• 3D representations [1, 2, 3]
• Curves and parametric surfaces (see 3D representation)
• Solid modeling
• Animation
• Keyframe animation
• Particle systems
• Deformations

In addition we will learn go over some linear algebra necessary for 3D graphics, and learn OpenGL, in which we you will implement two or three exercises/projects.

Requirements

This course is very practical. During the course you will be required to implement three practical projects, all of which are mandatory. Additionaly there will be a final theoretical exam.

• The exercises will be prepared in pairs.
• You must submit all three exercises in order to get a grade in the course.
• The exercises will consist of 40%-60% of the final grade.
• A failed exercise will add 0 points to the final grade, you must pass the exercise in order for it be added to the calculations.
• Some of the exercises may have bonus assignments.