1 / 17

Welcome to CS123!

Welcome to CS123!. Mechanics. Your Staff. Professor: Andy van Dam ( avd ) Head TA: Brandon Montell ( bmontell ), 2015 Undergraduate TAs, all 123 veterans: Allison Hamburger ( ahamburg ), 2016 Ben Most ( bmost ), 2015 Joshua Lewis (jml16), 2015 Michael Murphy (mjm9), 2015

wray
Download Presentation

Welcome to CS123!

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Welcome to CS123! Mechanics 9/4/2014

  2. Your Staff • Professor: • Andy van Dam (avd) • Head TA: • Brandon Montell (bmontell), 2015 • Undergraduate TAs, all 123 veterans: • Allison Hamburger (ahamburg), 2016 • Ben Most (bmost), 2015 • Joshua Lewis (jml16), 2015 • Michael Murphy (mjm9), 2015 • Veena Vignale (vvignale), 2015 – 5th year Masters • Vivian Morgowicz (vmorgowi), 2016 9/4/2014

  3. Who Should Take CS123? • Juniors or higher • CS15-16, CS17-18, or CS19 and CS32 • or equivalent, with strong software engineering skills (OO design and programming, debugging) – this is a projects-based “studio course” • Sophomores • did well in intro sequence • consider themselves strong programmers • willing to put in a bit of extra time up front (e.g., to learn C++) 9/4/2014

  4. Requirements Info • If you don’t know C++, you CAN take this class • C++ is Java + explicit memory management and some C grottiness • additional time investment required early on • C++ help session TONIGHT at 8:00 PM in Motorola (CIT 165) • CS123 Java to C++ transition tutorial on course website (docs page) • TAs can help you with C++ issues on hours • Linear Algebra (vector and matrix arithmetic, dot and cross products) • help session to review these concepts (later on in the semester) • Consider taking Philip Klein’s CS53, Directions: The Matrix in Computer Science • If you’re not sure you should be in CS123 or have not met the prereqs, stay after class and see Brandon or email cs123headtas@cs.brown.edu 9/4/2014

  5. Bird’s Eye View of the Course (1/2) • Quick start: 2D and 3D graphics with OpenGL • 2D raster graphics • 2D modeling hierarchy • basic image transformations • Basic 3D scene management • tessellation of curved surfaces • transformations (translation, rotation, scale) • virtual camera model • Scene graph traversal 9/4/2014

  6. Bird’s Eye View of the Course (2/2) • 3D Modeling and Rendering – the core • intersecting rays with simple solids • ray tracing • lighting and shadowing of polygonal models • stochastic methods for photorealistic rendering • GPU hardware rendering (GLSL) • Other Topics • colortheory • animation • user interfaces 9/4/2014

  7. Workload • We don’t want a killer course but it will be intense • Expect 15-20 hours of work per week • Course is front-loaded, lots to learn in the first three weeks • Combining with another programming-heavy course (like CS33) is doable but can be challenging, especially for those who have only taken the intro sequence. • Final project doing shader programming on GPU • Expect to put in a fair amount of time during reading period 9/4/2014

  8. Half Credit requirements • Each project will include a section called half credit requirements • Those taking cs1234 will need to complete these requirements • Those not taking cs1234 can use the requirements as additional extra credit • Expect 7-10 additional hours of work • CS1234 can be used as a capstone course • Half credit requirements can be be used to get grad credit • Do NOT show up at the class time listed on Banner for CS1234 • Banner hack ;) 9/4/2014

  9. Course Documents (1/3) • Course missive (online) • Assignment deadlines and lecture topics are subject to change • Responsible for info on course website: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs123 • Mailing list for course updates – mail will be sent to your Brown CS e-mail address • Course guide (online) 9/4/2014

  10. Course Documents (2/3) • Collaboration Policy • More types of collaboration allowed this year than last year • Allowed: discussion of solutions to written “algo” assignments (hand-ins must acknowledge collaboration that takes place), high-level design of programs • Not allowed: written notes from discussions with other students, detailed discussion of programs • This is different from rules in other courses. • Read collaboration policy carefully before you sign because it is a contract • MOSS – an AI program that is usually correct – we hand-check suspicious similarity • Typical verdict: directed NC and parental notification 9/4/2014

  11. Course Documents (3/3) • Lectures posted online. You are encouraged to bring your laptops to read along and annotate lectures. 9/4/2014

  12. The Book • The textbook for this class is recommended, but not required • Most lectures will correspond to chapters in the book • An improved index has been linked on the site’s docs page 9/4/2014

  13. Assignments • 6 Programming Projects • Three of which build up to a ray-tracing system • Additional requirements for half credit course • 70% of final grade • 10 Labs • Learn what modern graphics systems can do • Real-time computer graphics and GPU shaders • 3D interaction and UI • 10% of final grade • 1 Final Project • Real-time project using GPU programming • You are strongly encouraged to work in groups of 2-3; 2 most common • 20% of final grade 9/4/2014

  14. First Assignment • First assignment, Brush: warm-up exercise in C++ • Out NOW • Start early, especially if you’re uncomfortable with C++ • Bring questions to help session tonight • Algorithm assignment due Sunday, September 7at 5pm • hand in (on paper) in the cs123 bin on the second floor of the CIT • no late hand-ins accepted • Program due Wednesday, September 10th, 11:59pm 9/4/2014

  15. Projects • Brush – a 2d drawing program (intro to C++) • Shapes – procedural geometry • Filter – image processing • Sceneview – 3d static scene viewer for OpenGL • Intersect – parametric shapes, ray-shape intersections • Ray – your own 3d rendering engine • Each project is preceded by a short “algo” assignment, which ensures that you understand the concepts behind the project before starting to code. Image created using brushes from the “Brush” assignment 9/4/2014

  16. Labs –Thursday 8:30-10:30pm, Friday 4-6 • OpenGL 2D – build a simple pong game • OpenGL 3D – build an archery simulator • Animation – learn how to light and animate scenes with OpenGL • Terrain – generate a natural-looking world environment • Particles – render flame, fluid, non-rigid objects • Camtrans– create an OpenGL viewing camera • Shaders I – procedural texturing (snow, grass, etc.) • Shaders II – link C++ to shaders and implement Phong lighting • Shaders III – make objects look like glass and metal • Modeler– build a UI for composing a scene from primitive shapes • Lab assignments are due (checked off by a TA) before the next week’s lab 9/4/2014

  17. Final Project Demos 9/4/2014

More Related