CS 480 - lecture notes

Lecture location, days/hours

ZHS 159, Monday, 6:30 - 9:30 pm [with a 5-minute break around 8 pm]

PLEASE stick around for 20 minutes if I am not in class by 6:30! I make every attempt to get there on time - I am rarely late. But traffic through downtown can be unpredictable (I commute from Glendale, way north of Downtown), hence the '20 minute rule'. If I don't show up by 6:50 we can consider the class to be cancelled and will make up the material during subsequent classes.

Lecture notes

The lecture pages below contain links to onscreen/printable PDFs. Links to future classes are 'broken' and will be enabled as we go along.

Often the pages also contain additional lecture notes, links, images, animations and code. For exam purposes you are expected to know everything in the PDFs - the rest is there by way of extra info.

Note - given that each is a 3-hour class, I'm 'doubling up' lecture topics.

1/11:
Lecture 0: Introduction
Lecture 1: Linear algebra

1/18: MLK's B'day - Holiday

1/25:
Lecture 2: Transformations - basics
Lecture 3: More transformations

2/1:
Lecture 4: Axis (space) transformations
Lecture 5: Line rasterization

2/8:
Lecture 6: Polygon rasterization
Lecture 7: Visibility

2/15: Presidents' Day - Holiday

2/22:
Lectures 8, 9: Shading [full 3 hours]

3/1:
Lecture 10: Shadows
Lecture 11: Texture mapping

3/8: Midterm exam: 6:30-8:00 pm, location TBD

3/15: Spring break

3/22:
Lecture 12: Procedural texturing
Lecture 13: OpenGL - Part I