Lecture 1

Grading/HW/Exams

20 pts --4 Weekly quizzes (last half of Thursday)
20 pts -- 10 Daily mid-week homeworks (simple, due next day)
40 pts -- 4 weekend homeworks (combine ideas from week, due on following Thursday)
20 pts -- 1 Final exam

Overview of the course

2D Graphics and OpenGL
3D Transformations
Lighting, Color, and Shading
Cameras and projection
Splines and Curved Surfaces
Graphics Algorithms
Animation
Ray Tracing
Shadows

Intro to OpenGL

Discuss OpenGL libraries in C, C++, Java, Scheme, ...
Goals translate Hill examples to Java
HW1 -- write first OpenGL program