Graphics Home Page

Lecturer: Ken Power, office 206

This page supports the 4th year Graphics course given as part of the B. Sc. in Software Engineering.

The course is part of the final year of the software engineering degree (CW228).

An overview of this course

This course is delivered by lectures and practical sessions, approximately 60 hours of lecture plus 15 hours of practical supervision.

Assessments

Two practical assessments each worth 15%,

Three exams (MCQ), pick best 2, worth 5% each.

At the end of the year there will be a final written exam, worth 60%.

Week Beginning	Theory & Reading	Lab Work & Assessments
2013/14 Class Calendar (subject to adjustment)
17-Sept	Introduction Vectors
24-Sept	Introduction to OpenGL Drawing Primitives	Intro to SFML
1-Oct	Vectors	Exercise Primitives_1
8-Oct	Vectors Vector Exercises
15-Oct	Matrices Modeling Transformations
22-Oct	Polygon Meshes	Vector Exam
29-Oct	Orthographic Projections	OpenGL SolarSystem
5 Nov	Viewing Coordinates
12-Nov	Perspective Projection
19-Nov	ModelViewMatrix Projection Matrix
26-Nov	Curves and Surfaces	1st OpenGL Assessment
3-Dec	Curves and Surfaces	1st OpenGL Assessment
10-Dec	Backface culling	1st OpenGL Assessment

Christmas		1st OpenGL Assessment
9-Jan	Illumination
16-Jan	Lighting in OpenGL
23-Jan	Shading Texture Mapping	Surfaces
30-Jan	Review Mid-term Exam	OPENGL_LIGHTING Projection & surfaces Exam
6-Feb	Texture Mapping in OpenGL	Lighting SURFACES
13-Feb	HSR	Textured Cube
20-Feb	Review (Rag Week, maybe)
27-Feb	Texture Aliasing Texture Filtering Colour Models	2nd OpenGL Assessment
5-Mar	Double-Buffering
12-Mar	Blending Blending in OpenGL
19-Mar	Screen Space Anti-Aliasing Antialiasing in OpenGL	Lighting & texture exam
26-Mar	Optimizations in OpenGL Viewport Transformation
2-Apr	Easter
9-Apr	Easter
16-Apr	Review	2nd OpenGL Assessment Due
23-Apr	Review
30-Apr	Exams Begin