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 (126 kB PDF)
  Covered 26 October 2026.
  
• Set 1: Course Overview, System Overview (831 kB PDF)
  Covered 24 August 2026
  
• Set 1a: Frame Buffer Example
  Covered 24, 28 August 2026
  Additional Material
  • 2022 Homework 1
  • 2022 Homework 1 Solution
  • Partial solution done in class 26 August 2026
  • Partial solution done in class 28 August 2026
• Set 2a: Basics of Simulation, Bouncing Ball (138 kB PDF)
  Covered 28, 31 August 2026
  Additional Material
  • Bouncing ball demo.
• Set 2b: Basics of Simulations, Springs (131 kB PDF)
  Covered 31 August, 2, ... September 2026
  Additional Material
  • Springs demo.
• Set 3: Mathematics for 3D Graphics (403 kB PDF)
  Covered 2, 4, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 21 September 2026
  Additional Material
  • 2018 Homework 1 Problem 2: Arranging balls in a spiral
  • 2018 Homework 1 Solution (search for Problem 2").
  • Examples of using course vector arithmetic library.
• CPU-Only Simple Rasterization
  Covered 23 September 2026
  
• CPU-Only Rendering Code, Rasterization and Coordinate Spaces
  Covered 23 September 2026
  
• CPU-Only Z (Depth) Buffering, Lighting
  Covered 25, ... September 2026
  
• CPU-Only Rendering Code, Ray Tracing
  Covered 28, 30 September 2026
  
• Rendering Pipeline (552 kB PDF)
  Covered 5, 7, 12, 14 October 2026
  
• CPU-Only Rendering Pipeline
  Covered 14 October 2026
  
• Vulkan Primitives, Drawing a Sphere
  Covered 16, 19 October 2026
  Additional Material
  • Shader Code
• OpenGL Shading Language Basics, Simple Vertex and Fragment Shaders
  Covered 16 October 2026
  Additional Material
  • Simple use of vertex and fragment shaders. Lighting in vertex shader.
  • Simple use of vertex and fragment shaders. Lighting in fragment shader.
• Homework 3 Solution
  Covered 21 October 2026
  
• Textures
  Covered 23 October 2026
  Additional Material
  • Some notes on textures, including picket fence illustration.
  • Shaders demonstrating different texture blending modes.
• Midterm Exam Solution (2.07 MB PDF)
  Covered 2 November 2026
  
• Geometry Shaders
  Covered 30 October, 4, 6, ... November 2026
  Additional Material
  • Live 6 November 2026 code in which bulge rendering added to vs_main_basic.
  • Helix code without geometry shaders.
  • Demo 10 shader code with the geometry shader: smooth bulge.