EE 4702-1 - Lectures

Information on the lectures given in class are listed below, divided into roughly one-week sets. Information includes references when the lectures where given, and where applicable, links to slides used in class. If slides have not yet been posted or to get a preview of upcoming lectures see last year's slides.

• Midterm Exam Review (125 kB PDF)
  Covered 29 October 2025.
  
• Final Exam Review (111 kB PDF)
  To Be Covered 8 December 2025.
  
• Set 1: Course Overview, System Overview (1.69 MB PDF)
  Covered 25 August, 3 September 2025
  
• Set 1a: Frame Buffer Example
  Covered 25, 27, 29 August 2025
  Additional Material
  • In-class live solution to 2022 Homework 1
  • 2022 Homework 1
  • 2022 Homework 1 Solution
• Set 2a: Basics of Simulation, Bouncing Ball (131 kB PDF)
  Covered 5 September 2025
  Additional Material
  • Bouncing ball demo.
• Set 2b: Basics of Simulations, Springs (131 kB PDF)
  Covered 8, 10, September 2025
  Additional Material
  • Springs demo.
• Set 3: Mathematics for 3D Graphics (402 kB PDF)
  Covered 10, 12, 15, 19, 22, 26, 29 September 2025
  Additional Material
  • 2018 Homework 1 Problem 2: Arranging balls in a spiral
  • 2018 Homework 1 Solution as done in class in 2023
  • 2018 Homework 1 Solution (search for Problem 2").
  • Examples of using course vector arithmetic library.
• CPU-Only Rendering Code, Rasterization and Coordinate Spaces
  Covered 26, 29 September 2025
  
• CPU-Only Rendering Code, Rasterization and Coordinate Spaces
  Covered 1 October 2025
  
• CPU-Only Z (Depth) Buffering, Lighting
  Covered 1, 3, 6 October 2025
  
• CPU-Only Rendering Code, Ray Tracing
  Covered 6, 8 October 2025
  
• CPU-Only Rendering Pipeline
  Covered 10, 13, 15, 20 October 2025
  
• Rendering Pipeline (553 kB PDF)
  Covered 20, 22, 24 October 2025
  
• Homework 3 Solution
  Covered 24 October 2025
  
• Midterm Exam Solution (671 kB PDF)
  Covered 3 November 2025
  
• Vulkan Primitives, Drawing a Sphere
  Covered 3, 5, 7.. November 2025
  Additional Material
  • Shader Code
• Geometry Shaders
  Covered 7, 10, 12 November 2025
  Additional Material
  • Simple demo 10 shader code.
  • Demo 10 shader code with the geometry shader: smooth bulge.
• Textures
  Covered 14, 17 November 2025
  Additional Material
  • Some notes on textures, including picket fence illustration.
  • Shaders demonstrating different texture blending modes.
• The Sprial (2014 Homework 4, 5, 6 Series) (402 kB PDF)
  Covered 19, 21 November 2025
  Additional Material
  • Homework 6 handout
  • Homework 6 handout
  • 2014 Homework 4 solution: give spiral thickness.
  • 2014 Homework 6 solution: geo shader with lines input.
  • 2014 Homework 6: geo shader with triangles input (not modified for solution).
  • 2014 Homework 5 Problem 1 (amount of data)
  • 2014 Homework 6 solution: CPU code.
• True Sphere Shader
  Covered 24 November 2025
  
• Ray Tracing (126 kB PDF)
  Covered 26 November, 1, 3, 5 December 2025
  Additional Material
  • OpenGL Shading Language NVidia Ray Tracing Extension.
  • Ray traversal, closest-hit, and miss shaders for default triangle geometry RT code (in directory include).
  • Intersection and closest hit shader for spheres, used in RT code (in directory shader-include).