Semester 1, 2017

2018 students please note: the information below is for 2017. The course pages for this paper for 2018 will be moving to Blackboard soon.

Lectures:

Tue:   9-9:50am     in     Quad 3
Thu:   9-9:50am     in     Burns 4

Note: Rooms are subject to change check your eVision timetable for the latest information.

Tutorials (1):

Tuesday 10:00 in MUG5a or.

Wednesday 11:00 in T201 or.

See eVision for streaming. Any streaming changes need to go through Kaye, in the CS office.

Note: Rooms are subject to change check your eVision timetable for the latest information.

Laboratories (1):

Mon: 4:00pm-5:50pm     in     Lab F (Owheo G38)

Lecture recordings and past material

The lectures that are recorded in 2017 will appear on the paper's Otago Capture section. Note that lectures need to be uploaded and transcoded, so may only appear some time after the lecture has occurred. Lecture recording is done manually for this paper, so is best-effort only. We cannot guarantee the quality or even existence of lecture recordings on any given day.

Schedule:

Week	Date	Lecture	Lab	Tutorial	Notes
1	27 Feb	01: Introduction 02: Image representation	No labs	Blender demonstration and Q&A Blender homepage and YouTube Channel	Lect 01: pdf (10.3MB) Lect 02: pdf (4.4MB)
2	06 Mar	03: Filtering, edge detection, blurring, separable filters 04: 2D graphics techniques	Blender Basics	Essential mathematics: vectors and matrices Exercises	Lect 03: pdf (1.2MB) Lect 04: pdf (0.4MB)
3	13 Mar	05: 2D tranformations 06: Image mosaicing 1	Vectors and Matrices in C++, and Introduction to OpenCV	Colour, Illusions,	Lect 05: pdf (0.2MB) Lect 06: pdf (7MB)
4	20 Mar	07: Image mosaicing 2 08: Image mosaicing 3	2D transformations Lab exercises	2D transformations 2D Transform Viewer Exercises and Solutions	Lect 07: pdf (0.4MB) Lect 08: pdf (6.4MB)
5	27 Mar	09: 3D transformations 10: Perspective and camera models	Mosaicing Lab exercises	RANSAC : exercises and spreadsheet Thinking in 3D	Lect 09: pdf (4.8MB) Lect 10: pdf (0.2MB)
6	03 Apr	11: Ray tracing introduction 12: OpenGL Introduction	Assignment help	3D transformations 3D Transform Viewer Exercises and Solutions	Lect 11: pdf (2.3MB) Lect 12: pdf (10.4MB)
7	10 Apr	13: Ray tracing primitives 14: OpenGL Scenes	Assignment 2 intro	Rendering basics Exercises	Lect 13: pdf (0.2MB) Lect 14: pdf (9.8MB) Assignment 1 due Monday
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8	24 Apr	[ANZAC Day] 15:OpenGL Lighting	OpenGL Intro 1	[ANZAC Day]	Lect 15: pdf (8.7MB)
9	01 May	16: Raytracing Lighting 17: OpenGL textures	OpenGL Intro 2	OpenGL Essentials and C++ Basics Exercises	Lect 16: pdf (0.2MB) Lect 17: pdf (15.8MB)
10	08 May	18: Ray tracing reflections 19: OpenGL Shadows	Assignment help	No Tutorial	Lect 18: pdf (2MB) Lect 19: pdf (27.6MB)
11	15 May	20: Ray tracing efficiency 21: WebGL	Assignment help	Review - Mosaicing	Lect 20: pdf (0.2MB) Lect 21: pdf (9.1MB)
12	22 May	22: Path tracing 23: Scenegraphs	WebGL	Recap Rasterisation Pipeline Exercises	Lect 22: pdf (0.8MB) Lect 23: pdf (10.1MB) Assignment 2 due Monday
13	29 May	25: Exam / Beyond 342 26: NO LECTURE	Review	Assignment Review	Lect 24: pdf (0.1MB)

Assignments:

[20%]   Assignment 1 requires you to use Blender to create a 3D model.

Assignment 1 is due at 5pm, on Monday 10th April (start of week 7).

[20%]   There are two choices for assignment 2: Option A) Write a ray tracer. Option B) Write a render engine.

You can choose to either:

• Write just the Ray Tracer
• Write just the OpenGL-based render engine
• Work in a pair to do both

If you choose to work in a pair, then each of you should submit one part of the assignment, and clearly state at the start of your report the name and student ID of your partner.

Assignment 2 is due at 5pm, Monday 22nd May (start of week 12).

Mathematics Revision

A summary of some of the mathematics you are expected to be familiar with is provided. This could be useful if you have difficulties with any of the material in Tutorial 2.

Geoff's Ray Tracing Notes (1995):

Part 1: Practical Ray Tracing.
Part 2: Professional Ray Tracing.

Text:

There is no set textbook for this course.

The team of shady characters:

Steve and Stefanie

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