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 (93.6 kB PDF)
  Covered 21 October 2024.
  
• Final Exam Review (111 kB PDF)
  Covered 9 December 2024.
  
• Set 1: Course Overview, System Overview (405 kB PDF)
  Covered 26, 28 August 2024
  
• Set 1a: Frame Buffer Example
  Covered 28, 30 August 2024.
  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 4 September 2024.
  Additional Material
  • Bouncing ball demo.
• Set 2b: Basics of Simulations, Springs (131 kB PDF)
  Covered 6, 9, .. September 2024
  Additional Material
  • Springs demo.
• Set 3: Mathematics for 3D Graphics (403 kB PDF)
  Covered 9, 13, 16, 18, 23, 25 .. September 2024
  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 25 September 2024
  
• CPU-Only Rendering Code, Rasterization and Coordinate Spaces
  Covered 25, 27, 30 September 2024
  
• CPU-Only Z (Depth) Buffering, Lighting
  Covered 30 September, 2 October 2024
  
• CPU-Only Rendering Code, Ray Tracing
  Covered 2, 4, 7 October 2024
  
• CPU-Only Rendering Pipeline
  Covered 7, 9, 11 October 2024
  
• Rendering Pipeline (533 kB PDF)
  Covered 11, 14, 28 October, 1 November 2024
  
• Homework 2 and 3 Solution
  Covered 16 October 2024
  Additional Material
  • Homework 3 solution code.
• Midterm Exam Solution (1.65 MB PDF)
  Covered 30 October, 1 November 2024
  
• Vulkan Helper Basics, Vertex and Fragment Shader Code
  Covered 4 November 2024
  Additional Material
  • Shader Code
• Vulkan Primitives, Drawing a Sphere
  Covered 4, 8 November 2024
  Additional Material
  • Texture demo code, to show sphere texture coordinates.
• Geometry Shaders
  Covered 11, 13, 15 November 2024
  Additional Material
  • Simple demo 10 shader code.
  • Demo 10 shader code with the geometry shader: smooth bulge.
• Textures
  Covered 15, 18 November 2024
  Additional Material
  • Shaders demonstrating different texture blending modes.
• The Sprial (2014 Homework 4, 5, 6 Series) (402 kB PDF)
  Covered 25 November 2024
  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, from the links project base code.
• Ray Tracing (124 kB PDF)
  Covered 20, 22, 27 November, 2, ... December 2024
  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).
• Homework 5 Solution
  Covered 4 December 2024
  Additional Material
  • Homework 5 solution shader code.