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Introduction to
Computer Graphics
CPSC 453 – Fall 2018 Sonny Chan
Your Professor
- Dr. Sonny Chan
- sonny.chan@ucalgary.ca
- Office:
- MS 634 (and HRIC 1C56)
- Tuesdays & Fridays @
10:00-11:50 AM
Computer Graphics CPSC 453 Fall 2018 Sonny Chan Your Professor - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Computer Graphics CPSC 453 Fall 2018 Sonny Chan Your Professor - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Introduction to Computer Graphics CPSC 453 Fall 2018 Sonny Chan Your Professor Dr. Sonny Chan - sonny.chan@ucalgary.ca Office: - MS 634 (and HRIC 1C56) - Tuesdays & Fridays @ 10:00-11:50 AM Your Teaching Assistants Alejandro
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Your Teaching Assistants
John Hall Alejandro Garcia
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Outline for Today
- Definition of computer graphics
- Applications of computer graphics
- Course overview
- Course logistics
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What is
computer graphics?
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The discipline concerned with generating or manipulating visual imagery using computational devices and methods.
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–Ken Perlin
“What you need to show other people your dreams.”
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What are some of its
applications?
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Jurassic Park, 1993
Universal Pictures
Jurassic World, 2015
Universal Pictures
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Beauty and the Beast, 1991
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Inside Out, 2015
Pixar / Walt Disney
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Spacewar, 1962
Steve Russell, MIT
Assassin’s Creed Unity, 2014
Ubisoft Montreal
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Mission Rehearsal, ca. 1900s
United States Army
America’s Army, 2002-2013
United States Army
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Spline Ducks, ca. 1700s
Drafting tools for shipbuilding
SolidWorks, 1995-present
Dassault Systèmes
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Movable Type, ca. 1400s
Johannes Gutenberg
TrueType Fonts, 1991
Apple Computer Inc.
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Molecule Set, ca. 1900s
Chemistry Education
PyMOL, 2010-present
Scientific Visualization
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X-rays, 1930s-present
Medical Diagnosis
HD Volume Rendering, 2005
Fovia, Inc.
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Digital Photograph
(Despina Vandi)
Photoshop, 1988-present
Adobe Systems
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Sketchpad, 1965
Ivan Sutherland, MIT
iOS, 2007-present
Apple Inc.
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Stereoscope, 1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oculus Rift, 2016
Facebook Inc.
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Course Overview
CPSC 453 - Fall 2018
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Combines Disciplines
We’ll learn a lot of different things
Human Perception Aesthetics Mathematics Physics Computer Science
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Many Topics
We’ll survey a bunch in this course
Light & Colour Digital Imaging Geometry Textures & Materials Graphics Systems
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It’s just a tool…
and not the focus of this course
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Programming in C++
New to you? TAs will support you.
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CPSC 453
CPSC 589
Modelling
CPSC 587
Rendering
CPSC 591
Animation
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CPSC 453
CPSC 535
Vision
CPSC 585
Games
CPSC 599.86
Haptics
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Course Logistics
And now the boring stuff…
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Our home base
- Course web site:
- http://cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~sonny.chan/cpsc453
- Schedule, lecture slides, assignments, references…
- UofC Desire2Learn page:
- Course work submission, grades
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Join us on
piazza.com/ucalgary.ca/fall2018/cpsc453
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Course Text
- Published last year!
- 4th ed. is full colour
- I will assign readings
- not sequentially though
- Not 100% necessary to
pass this course, but do buy it!
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Caltech Cornell Stanford UBC UC Berkeley
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These slides are
not lecture notes!
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Grading
- 50% - Assignments
- 20% - Midterm (in class Tuesday, October 30th)
- 30% - Final Exam
- A double-sided, letter-sized, hand-written page will be
allowed as reference for each exam
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Assignments
- Total of five assignments to be completed in pairs:
- 1. Line and polygon geometry
- 2. Image effects
- 3. Curves and splines
- 4. Ray tracing
- 5. Real-time rendering
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Completing the Assignments
- Each assignment has written and programming parts
- Written component is due ahead of program
- Programming component can be completed on any
platform, but up to you to ensure your TA can run it!
- Your TAs will help you with the practicalities of coding
- First tutorial is on Monday, September 10th!
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Working With a Partner
- You may work with a partner for each assignment
- Ideally learn more, learn faster, and more fun
- Two’s company, but three’s a crowd!
- You must pick a different partner for each assignment
- See others’ approach to problems and programming
- Experience up to five different styles this semester!
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Tips for Working With a Partner
- Choose a partner with a similar skill level
- Work on all aspects of the assignment together
- Schedule time to get together in person
- Practice “pair programming”
- Resist the temptation to “divide and conquer” the work
- You’ll likely both end up worse off
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Assignments & Late Days
- You’ll be allowed five grace “late days” to use as needed
- Late day is 24 hour period
- Cannot be used for written component
- Both partners must have and use the requisite
number of late days to submit the assignment late!
- Don’t ask me for extensions!
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Bonus Opportunities
- All assignments will have bonus opportunity
- Binary designation (you get it or you don’t)
- No point credit value!
- Possibly your ticket to an A+ in this course:
- A grade some bonuses = A+
- A- grade and lots of bonuses = A+
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Questions so far? ?
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Curiosities
A taste of what’s to come?
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Cameras & Photography
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Which one looks better?
A question of aesthetics…
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Focus
as a means of emphasis
[digital-photography-school.com]
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Depth of Field
Which picture is a better?
[nicodebarmore.com]
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Wagon Wheel Effect
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Appearances
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Which one looks more real?
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Detailed explanations for all this and more,