CMSC 427 - Computer Graphics

Fall 2001

Final Exam Information

The 427 final is on Friday (December 14) 8:00 - 10:00am in CSS 1113. During the exam you can refer to your lecture notes, your printouts of lecture presentations that I have put up on the 427 web-site, and one textbook. You will not be permitted to exchange books or notes during the exam, so come prepared with your own reference material.

Here is a sample exam.

Following are the approximate (but not exhaustive) coverage of the topics that we covered in our lectures from the textbook by Francis S. Hill, Jr. The syllabus for the final is the material that we have discussed in the lectures up to and including the lecture on December 11. The following reading suggestions are for the case when you do not fully understand what was discussed in the lectures. Unfortunately, the following list does not cover everything discussed in the class (there is no perfect textbook yet).

Lecture 1 (Aug 30): Sections 1.1, 1.2 (motivation, overview)
Lecture 2 (Sep 4): Section 1.4 (graphics display technology)
Lectures 3, 4, (Sep 6, 11): Chapter 2 (event-driven computing, OpenGL, GLUT)
Lecture 4 (Sep 11): Sections 1.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 (pixel operations)
Lecture 5 (Sep 13): Section 10.4 (line drawing)
Lecture 6 (Sep 18): Sections 10.5, 10.7 (polygon drawing)
Lecture 7 (Sep 20): Section 10.8 (sampling, filtering, antialiasing)
Lecture 8 (Sep 27): Sections 10.9, 12.4 (color, transparency, fog)
Lecture 9 (Oct 2): Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 (ignore 4.5.4, 4.5.5 for now) (geometry basics) Sections 5.1, 5.2 (2D transformations)
Lecture 10(Oct 4): Sections 5.3, 5.4 (3D transformations)
Lecture 11(Oct 9): Sections 5.6, 7.1, 7.2 (3D Viewing)
Oct 11: Midterm Review
Lecture 12, 13 (Oct 18, 23): Sections 7.3, 7.4, 7.6.2 (3D Viewing)
Lecture 14 (Oct 25): Case Study 7.5 (page 406), Sections 7.4.4, (VFC), 13.1 (visibility)
Lecture 15 (Oct 30): Sections 8.4, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4 (visibility determination)
Lecture 16,17,18 (Nov 1,6,8): Sections 8.2, 8.3, 8.5, 14.8.2 (illumination, shading, texturing)
Lecture 19 (Nov 13): Sections 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.9, 14.10, 14.11 (ray tracing)
Lecture 20 (Nov 15): Not in the book
Lecture 21 (Nov 20): Sections 14.12 (introduction only, till before 14.12.1) Sections 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Lecture 22 (Nov 27): Sections 11.4, 11.5, 11.7, 11.10.3, 11.11.3, 11.11.5
Lectures 23, 24, 25 (Nov 29, Dec 4, Dec 6): Not in the book

Good luck!