This course provides and opportunity to develop an understanding of the theoretical, practical and artistic concepts underlying photo-realistic computer graphics. THis course will emphasize hands-on laboratory experience, with student work focused around completing a series of projects. From the first week, students will begin making color, shaded, perspective views of three-dimensional models of their own devising. As the course progresses, concepts of both computer programming and graphics will be presented that will facilitate expansion of the range and complexity of the images. Lectures, augmented by guided viewings of state-of-the-art computer-generated images and animations, will be used to deepen understanding of what has been learned in the laboratory. Format: lecture/laboratory. Evaluation will be based on progress demonstrated through weekly studio (computer lab) efforts, a final project, and examinations.
No prerequisites. This course assumes no previous experience with computers beyond that required to operate a simple word-processing program. This course is not open to students who have successfully completed a Computer Science course numbered 136 or above. For the highly successful student, this course may serve as an alternate to Mathematics 211 as a prerequisite for the upper division Computer Graphics course, Computer Science 371. Enrollment limit: 36 (expected: 36). Preference given to those students new to Computer Science.