Syllabus
CSE 4280/5280 Computer Graphics Algorithms Spring 2002

William Shoaff

The Departmental Course Description: See http://www.cs.fit.edu/wds/courses/cse4280/

Class Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 - 4:45 in Crawford Science S-210.

Class URL: http://www.cs.fit.edu/wds/classes/graphics

Class Forum: http://panther.fit.edu:81/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=cs-graphics&text_mode=&lang=english

Instructor: William D. Shoaff, 252 Olin Engineering Building (407) 674-8066, wds@cs.fit.edu

Office Hours: See http://www.cs.fit.edu/wds/classes/office.html or by electronic mail wds@cs.fit.edu, or by appointment.

Grading:

Florida Tech Computer Graphics Conference 100 points

Two quizzes 200 points

Final exam 100 points

Total points 400 points

This is a bi-level class with both undergraduate and graduate students. Graduate students will be expected to answer additional quiz questions and attain a greater depth of understanding as demonstrated by their work.

Letter grades will be assigned according to the following scale:

A=90 - 100%     B=80 - 89%     C=70 - 79% F=0 - 69%

Course Content: This class covers computer graphics fundamentals. The graphics pipeline; affine transformations; clipping; scan conversion algorithms; hidden object detection; illumination and shading models; color concepts; graphics APIs and hardware, and the effects of graphics on society.

Practice questions: Problems related to computer graphics will be provided for practice. Students are encouraged to know how to correctly work all problems. Selected problems may be collected for grading.

Conference: As part of the course you will present a talk on that describes a graphics programming project you will have completed by the end of the term. You may write your programs in any language and for any machine: Provided you are able to demonstrate your work in an on-campus computer laboratory. Use of graphics packages such as OpenGL, Java3D, or Direct3D is suggested but not required.

Submission of work: All assignments for this course must be submitted through the submit server.

Important Dates:

• January 8 - First day of this classes
• January 11 - Last day to register and add a class
• January 18 - Last day to drop a class without receiving a 'W'
• February 13 (approximate) - Quiz 1
• March 4-8 - Spring Break
• April 1 - Registration for Fall 2002 begins
• April 4 (approximate) - Quiz 2
• April 25 - Last day of this class
• May 3 - Final Exam: 15:30 -17:30
• May 4 - Spring commencement
• Other Holidays (not officially observed by Florida Tech):
  • Monday, January 21, 2002: Martin Luther King Day
  • Saturday, February 2, 2002: Groundhog Day
  • Tuesday, February 12, 2002: Chinese New Year (Ren-Wu)
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002: Ash Wednesday
  • Thursday, February 14, 2002: Valentine's Day
  • Monday, February 18, 2002: President's Day
  • Friday, March 15, 2002: Islamic New Year 1423
  • Sunday, March 17, 2002: St. Patrick's Day
  • Wednesday, March 20, 2002: Vernal Equinox 2:16pm (EST)
  • Thursday, March 28, 2002: Passover
  • Friday, March 29, 2002: Good Friday
  • Sunday, March 31, 2002: Easter Sunday
  • Monday, April 1, 2002: April Fools' Day
  • Sunday, April 7, 2002: Daylight Savings Time Begins 2:00am (EST)

Joint Work: The goal of homework is to master the material. This can often best be accomplished by working with others. If you do study with others, you owe it to yourself and your group to spend time trying to solve each problem prior to meeting with the group. You must write up solutions by yourself without assistance, this includes any code you may write. You must also identify collaborators on all assignments. If you obtain a solution through research, provide a citation of your source. Absolutely no collaboration is allowed on exams. Plagiarism and other anti-intellectual behavior will not be tolerated.

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