CS114 Projects in Advanced 3D Computer Graphics

University of California @ Irvine, Spring 2020

M/W 3:30pm

Instructor: Shuang Zhao (office hour: Fridays 11 am)

Announcements

• Mar 30: Welcome to CS114!
• May 13: There will be no lecture today.

Schedule

date		topic	assignments
30	Mar	no class
1	Apr	intro
6	Apr	WebGL
8	Apr	instructions on Project 1	Project 1
13	Apr	Monte Carlo integration & radiometry
15	Apr	instructions on Project 2, Part 1	Project 1 is due Project 2 is out
20	Apr	reflectance models & rendering equation
22	Apr	path tracing
27	Apr	instructions on Project 2, Part 2
29	Apr	no lecture: additional office hour
4	May	no lecture: additional office hour
6	May	mass-spring systems	Project 2 is due
11	May	instructions on Project 3 and the final project	Project 3 is out
13	May	no lecture
18	May	no lecture: additional office hour	Project 3 is due
3	June		Final Project milestone report is due
12	June		Final Project is due

Projects

During the first half of the quarter, there will be three (3) small to medium sized projects. The second half of the quarter will focus on one final project.

All projects except the final should be done individually.

Late policy: Every student has one (1) free late day for Project 1--3. Additional late submissions will NOT be accepted.

About CS114

Questions, help, discussion: The instructor is available to answer questions, advise on projects, or just to discuss interesting topics related to the class at office hours and by appointment as needed. For electronic communication we are using Piazza (handy link also at the top of this page).

Academic integrity: We assume the work you hand in is your own, and the results you hand in are generated by your program. You're welcome to read whatever you want to learn what you need to do the work, but we do expect you to build your own implementations of the methods we are studying. If you're ever in doubt, just include a citation in your code or report indicating where some idea came from, whether it be a classmate, a web site, another piece of software, or anything—this always maintains your honesty, whether the source was used in a good way or not. The principle is that an assignment is an academic document, like a journal article. When you turn it in, you are claiming that everything in it is your original idea (or is original to you and your partner, if you're handing in as a pair) unless you cite a source for it.

School can be stressful, and your coursework and other factors can put you under a lot of pressure, but that is never a reason for dishonesty. If you feel you can't complete the work on your own, come talk to the professor, or your advisor, and we can help you figure out what to do. Think before you hand in!

Clear-cut cases of dishonesty will result in failing the course.

For more information see UCI's Policy on Academic Honesty.

Collaboration: You are welcome (encouraged, even) to discuss projects among yourselves in general terms. But when it comes to writing up the homeworks or implementing the projects, you need to be working alone (or only with your partner if you are doing a project as a pair). In particular, it's never OK for you to see another student's homework writeup or another team's program code, and certainly never OK to copy parts of one person's or team's writeup, code, or results into another's, even if the general solution was worked out together.

Books

There is no required textbook. The following is a list of good references for materials covered by this course.

Dave Shreiner, Graham Sellers, John M. Kessenich and Bill Licea-Kane, OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL The famous "OpenGL red book" provides definitive and comprehensive information on OpenGL and the OpenGL Utility Library.

Randi J. Rost, Bill Licea-Kane, Dan Ginsburg, John M. Kessenich, Barthold Lichtenbelt, Hugh Malan and Mike Weiblen OpenGL Shading Language

Philip Dutre, Philippe Bekaert, and Kavita Bala Advanced Global Illumination A comprehensive book on physically-based rendering with detailed explanations on radiometry, Monte Carlo integration, and various MC solutions to the rendering equation.