Åbo Akademi University / Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology

Introduction to Computer Graphics, 5 ECTS, spring 2015, period 3

Course code: 455301.0

Lectures

• Time and place:
  • The lectures start on Tuesday January 27th.
  • Lectures are held on Mondays 13.15-15.00 and Thursdays 15.15-17.00.
  • The lecture on Monday March 2nd has been cancelled. Instead you are asked to run the OpenGL tutorial programs. You can also compile them in Linux one by one using "gcc source_file.c -lGL -lGLU -lglut".
  • The lecture room is in the ICT-building, Joukahainengatan 3-5, 3rd floor, room B3039 Algol.
  • The final lecture will be on Thursday March 5th.
• Lecturer: Jan Westerholm
  • email: Jan.Westerholm@abo.NOJUNK.fi (just leave out the NOJUNK part).

Literature

• John F. Hughes, Andries van Dam, Morgan McGuire and David F. Sklar: Computer Graphics: Principles and Practices. ISBN-10: 0321399528 ISBN-13: 978-0321399526
  
  This is the third edition of the classic book by Foley, van Dam, Feiner, Hughes, Phillips: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Addison-Wesley 1994.
• Donald Hearn, Pauline Baker: Computer Graphics, C Version (2nd ed.), Prentice-Hall
  This is a book on the basics in computer graphics.
• Peter Shirley, Steve Marschener: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, 3rd ed.
  This book contains the same basic mathematical and geometrical treatment as Hearn and Baker.
  The application area has been modernized compared to Hearn and Baker, and enlarged to include the principles of graphics card programming using vertex and fragment shaders.

Lecture notes

• The lecture notes will be posted as we proceed in moodle.abo.fi. This is the course portal at Åbo Akademi on which the material for many courses are managed. Please acquire a username (and a password!) for the computers at Åbo Akademi and log on to moodle.
• The first lecture notes will be posted as soon as I have been able to set up the course on moodle. Please be patient, this may take a while!

Problem sessions

• There will be five problem sessions supplementing the course material. On the first lecture you can vote for the time of the problem session.

Problem sets

• Problem sets are found on moodle.abo.fi

Final examination

Final examinations are at 12.15-16.00 in lecture hall Alpha (ICT-building, 1st floor). Please drop me an email to tell me which final exam you will attend.
• First final examination opportunity is on Friday March 20th, 2015.
• Second final examination opportunity is on Friday April 17th, 2015.

Course requirements for the final examination

• If you have very little time, then first read and understand the lecture slides on moodle and then do the problem sets.
• There will be no programming tasks in the final exam, nor will there be any question related to OpenGL details. However, some subjects like three dimensional rotation were treated in the programming problems, and any of those subjects (but not the programming itself) may appear in the final exam.
• From the course literature the following chapters may be useful although all information is already contained in the lecture notes. Choose either book, and if you have both then I recommend Shirley and Marschner.

• 2.1-2.4, 3, 5.1-5.2, 6, 7, 10, 21.1

• Chapter 5, 11, 12.1-12.4, 14.1-14.3, 15.1-15.4