Lecture sets
Will appear as the course goes. Access with username: cse472 and the password can be found on D2L. Alternatively you may use your cse account.
- Course Overview 01-06
- OpenGL Basics 01-08
- Light and Color 01-15
- Vertex shader to experiment with shader editor website , 1-23
- Transformations 1-29
- Moving to 3D 02-05
- Texture Mapping 02-10
- Illumination 02-12
- WebGL 02-17
- Projections 02-26
- Shading Models 03-16
- Raycasting 03-18
- Geometric Data Structure 3-25
- Raytracing 03-30
- More Textures 04-01
- Splines and Subdivision 04-08
- Reyes Renderer 04-20
- Fluid Simulation 04-22
- Review for Exam 04-08
- Sample Exam
- Sample Answers
- Exam Study Guide
- Quiz1
- Quiz2
- Quiz3
- Quiz4
- Quiz5
- Quiz6
- Quiz7
- Exam Key
- Radiosity
- Field Visualization
- Texture Synthesis
Notice: Some lecture sets are very large because they contain a large number of images.
This is the home page for CSE 472: Computer Graphics.
Yiying Tong, instructor, ytong@msu.edu
Ze Zhang, TA, email to Ze
This course will study the use of computer graphics for image and animation creation. Students will study 3D modeling and rendering. We will learn how to create and render 3D images and animations. We will also study the underlying mechanisms used by various rendering technologies.
The course syllabus is available in PDF format.
Discussion Forum at Piazza
Course resources
- Shader-based OpenGL base window class for MFC ShaderWnd.zip
- Textured Shaded Cube Example ShaderTest.zip
- Andrew Witkin and David Baraff - Physically Based Modeling: Principles and Practice
- Paper Presentations
Demos
- The transformation demostration: TransformDemo.zip
- The slither demonstration: slither.zip
- The curves demonstration program: curves.zip
- The physics demonstration program: physeeks.zip
- The radiosity demonstration program: radiosity.zip
Notice: The demonstration programs assume the Visual Studio 2005 runtime.
Other course websites:
- Stanford (Undergrad/Grad)
- MIT (Undergrad)
- CMU (Grad)
- Berkeley (Undergrad)
- Caltech (Grad)
- UIUC (Grad)
- Cornell (Physically-based Simulation)
- Columbia (Undergrad)
- USC (Undergrad)
Assignments (Submission through Handin, Grades on D2L)
Due dates:
- Normally at 11:59pm (email Ze or me if you have questions)
- Step #1 (the access is controlled through cse accounts) Due Thursday, Jan. 23th
- Step #2 Due Thursday, Feb. 13th.
- Step #3 Due Thursday, Feb. 27th
- Step #4 Due Thursday, March 19
- Project 1 (group project) Due Thursday, Apr 9th
- Term project Due on final's day (Monday, Apr 27)
- To be released: