CMPS 160/L -- Introduction to Computer Graphics

Fall 2016
MWF 9:20 am - 10:25 am
192-E2

Latest Information:

• Dec 02, 2016: The stats for the lecture totals and the lab totals are now available. I've also set the passing mark, but did not get a chance to look at the breakpoints for the letter grades yet. Hopefully by tomorrow.

• Dec 02, 2016: Grades for mid2 is now available. I hope to get the grades completed this weekend. I will announce here when it's ready

• Dec 02, 2016: Grades for attendance are now complete.

• Nov 28, 2016: Grades for prog4 are now posted. Make sure you check your grades ASAP and contact the graders if you think there's a problem.

  Our nominees for best projects are: adoubekk, bgorshen, ctorre16, cwalantu, hzfeng, jujbates, ntessier, ssholes, wbolden. Plan on about 5 minutes to present your project. The projector in the classroom has hdmi and vga connectors. If your laptop requires another type of connector, please bring that. If you don't have one, come by my office tomorrow (between 11-11:30) to see if what I have will work with your laptop. Note that I have a doc appt tomorrow morning, so there's a chance that I may not get there by 11am..

  A friendly reminder that online course evaluations are now available until december 4.

• Nov 21, 2016: Prog4 extended to NOON sunday, nov 27.

• Nov 19, 2016: Lab attendance have been updated to Nov 11. The distribution for attendance is also available. Please read the note at the bottom of that page.

• Nov 17, 2016: Lab 4 grades are now available.

• Nov 09, 2016: Prog 3 grades are now available. Some of the more interesting objects people came up with are:
  ntessier, odavies, and

• Nov 01, 2016: Looks like most people have their lighting equations down by now. So, you don't need to provide functionality to draw normals of SOR objects in Program 3. If your lighting still looks not quite right, then i recommend that you have the draw normal functionality to help you debug your lighting implementation.

• Oct 26, 2016: Midterm 1 grades are now available.

• Oct 26, 2016: Prog2 grades are now available.

• Oct 24, 2016: Please note that the blue light in LAB3 has been changed to a yellow light. Likewise, the blue cube has been changed to a yellow cube.

• Oct 24, 2016: Attendance score up until last week is now up (formatting has also been fixed). If you see any problem, please let us know.

• Oct 21, 2016: There is an NSF REU opportunity at Clemson this summer. Best if you plan to take CMPS 161/L next quarter to help prepare.

• Oct 18, 2016: Lab2 grades are now posted.

• Oct 15, 2016: Just updated the attendance record. Max score is 6. Check to make sure that our record of your attendance is accurate. I noticed quite a few students with only 2 and 3 attendances.

• Oct 11, 2016: Grades for prog1 are now available. If you don't see yours online or have problem accessing it, please send pang@soe.ucsc.edu an email.

• Old news

Course Information:

• Course Overview
• Course Schedule
• Discussion Forum
• Related links and on-line help

• OnLine Grade Information

Lab Assignments: These are generally due on SUNDAYs at midnight, unless otherwise noted.

• Lab 1, due midnight, Sunday, Oct 2, 2016
• Lab 2, due midnight, Sunday, Oct 16, 2016
• Lab 3, due midnight, Sunday, Oct 30, 2016
• Lab 4, due midnight, Sunday, Nov 13, 2016

Programming Assignments: These are generally due on SUNDAYs at midnight, unless otherwise noted.

• Program 1, due midnight, Sunday, Oct 9, 2016
• Program 2, due midnight, Sunday, Oct 23, 2016
• Program 3, due midnight, Sunday, Nov 6, 2016
• Program 4, due midnight, Tuesday, Nov 22, 2016

Exams:

• 1st exam is scheduled for 10/26/16, Wednesday
• 2nd exam is scheduled for 12/2/16, Friday

Links to old exams:

• Fall99 Exam 1
• Fall99 Exam 2
• Fall98 Exam 1
• Fall98 Exam 2

Previous Final Projects:

• Previous projects