Course Overview

Overview, motivation, and history; Graphic software and APIs; coordinate systems and geometric transforms; drawing routines, antialiasing, supersampling; 3d object representation, spatial data structures, constructive solid geometry; hidden-surface-removal algorithms, z-buffer, A-buffer; illumination and shading models, surface details, radiosity; achromatic light, color specification, colorimetry, different color models; graphics pipeline; animation, levels of detail.

Professor

Tabitha Peck, PhD

office: D226, LSRC
email: tpeck at cs.duke.edu
phone: 660-6526
office hours: M 3:45-4:45, W 3-4, or by appointment.