Syllabus is under development. The course will cover approximately Chapters 1-8 of the textbook.

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• Podcasts. Class meetings will be podcasted available on canvas and at podcast.ucsd.edu, generally within a few hours..
• In-class quiz. There will be frequently be a quiz at the end of lecture. Topics will be preannounced to help you focus your study.. The lowest 1/3 of your quizzes can be dropped from your course grade.

Thursday September 22	Introduction to computer graphics. Drawing primitives (points, lines, triangles). line strips and loops. Triangle strips and loops. Front faces and back faces. GPU's and vertex and fragment shaders. Lecture slides for iPad portion of the lecture. No quiz today.
Tuesday September 27	Topics: Hidden surfaces. Shader programs. Linear transformations in ℝ2 (2-space). Lecture slides Quiz #1: Triangle strips and triangle fans. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Thursday September 29	Topics: OpenGL code. Linear and affine transformations in ℝ2 Lecture slides Quiz #2: Linear maps in ℝ2. Converting between "F" shapes and 2×2 matrix representations. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Tuesday October 4	Topics: Project #1 and OpenGL. Homogeneous coordinates. Rigid, orientation preserving maps. Transformations in ℝ3 Lecture slides Quiz #3: Linear and Affine Transformations, and Inverses. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Thursday October 6	Topics: Transformations in ℝ3. Rigid, orientation preserving maps. Hierarchial transformations. Lecture slides Quiz #4: Homogeneous coordinates. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Tuesday October 11	Topics: Solar system program. Rigid, orientation-preserving maps. Euler's Theorem. The general rotation matrix. Lecture slides Quiz #5: 4×4 representations for rotations and translations Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Thursday October 13	Topics: Euler's Theorem. The general rotation matrix. Lecture slides Quiz #6: 4×4 representations for compositions of rotations, scalings and/or translations Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Tuesday October 18	Topics: Projection matrix. Orthographic and Perspective Transformations Lecture slides Quiz #7: Transforming a shape with composition of rotations, translations and scaling. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Thursday October 20	Topics: Shadows. Surfaces and normal vectors. Lecture slides Quiz #8: Matrices representing vector operations. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Tuesday October 25	Topics: More on normal vectors. Phong lighting. Lecture slides Quiz #9: 4×4 matrix representing shadow projection. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Thursday October 27	Topics: Phong lighting. Lecture slides Quiz #10: Surface normals. (Parametric surface or Level surface.) Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Tuesday November 1	Topics: Spotlights. Distance attenuation. Phong/Gouraud shading. Linear interpolation. Lecture slides Quiz #11: Affine transformation of surface normals. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Thursday November 3	Topics: Barycentric coordinates. Weighted averages and affine combinations. Lecture slides Quiz #12: Linear interpolation and inverting linear interpolation. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Tuesday November 8	Topics: Bilinear interpolation. Convex sets. Texture mapping. Class cancelled. Watch videos 8.7, 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3 instead. No quiz due to cancelled class.
Thursday November 10	Topics: Texture Maps, Hyperbolic Interpolation. Lecture slides Quiz #13: Barcentric coordinates. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Tuesday November 15	MIDTERM EXAM. In-person at the usual class time and room. Topics: Entire course material up through barycentric coordinates. There are Midterm Study Problems. You may also review quiz problems and problems in the PDF. Also available: Review session slides. Finally, the midterm answers are available.
Thursday November 17	Topics: Project 7. Hyperbolic Interpolation. Lecture slides Quiz #14: Bilinear interpolation. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Tuesday November 22	Topics: Wrap-up of texture maps. Color. Degree three Bezier curves. Lecture slides Quiz #15: Hyperbolic interpolation. Available as blank quiz and with suggested answers
Thanksgiving	Holiday, no class meeting.
Tuesday November 29	Topics: Bezier curves (degrees 1, 2, 3). De Casteljau algorithm. Recursive subdivision. Convex hull. Lifting degree from 2 to 3. Affine combinations. Lecture slides No quiz today.
Thursday December 1	Topics: Circles and conic sections. Piecewise Bezier curves; C1 and G1 continuity. Bezier surfaces. Lecture slides No quiz today.
Thursday December 8	FINAL EXAM. In-person. 8:00am-11:00am Cumulative topics. Up through Bezier curves for conic sections. There are Final Exam Study Problems, which supplement the Midterm Study problems.