CS488 - Introduction to Computer Graphics - Spring 2013

Administrative

Instructor

• Bill Cowan, [wW][mM][cC][oO][wW][aA][nN]@cgl.uwaterloo.ca, DC2111, x34527.

Teaching Assistants & Office Hours

• Marta Kryven -
• Rob Suderman -

Location and Time of Lectures

• MC4040
• 08.30 to 9.50, Tuesday Thursday

Newsgroup

• uw.cs.cs488

Course Email

• cs488@cgl.uwaterloo.ca

Text Books

Required:

• CS488/688 Lecture Notes, hardcopy available at DC Library Graphics.
• Hearn, Baker and Carithers, Computer Graphics with Open GL , Prentice Hall.

Option, and Useful:

• Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner , Morgan Kaufmann.
• Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, Mason Woo, OpenGL Architecture Review Board, OpenGL Programming Guide, Addison Wesley (and Silicon Graphics), (Available online on the SGI machines).
• Watt and Policarpo, 3D Games, Addison Wesley, 2001. (on reserve at the Dana Porter Library)

Lecture Notes

Assignments & Exams

Mark Distribution

1. Assignments 1-5: 50%
2. Final exam: 50%

In order to pass the course it is necessary to pass both the assignments and the exams. Here is my algorithm for calculating marks.

1. If exam > 50% AND assignments > 50% then
   • mark = exam + assignments
2. If exam < 50% OR assignments < 50% then
   • mark = min( exam, assignments )

Return to:

• Bill Cowan's home page
• Bill Cowan's teaching page.
• Bill Cowan's CS488 page.