CMSC 427 - Computer Graphics
Fall 2003
Midterm Information
The 427 midterm is on Thursday (October 16) 11:00 - 12:15pm
in our regular classroom. 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 Ed Angel.
The syllabus for the midterm is the material that we have discussed in
the lectures up to and including the lecture on October 14. 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).
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Lecture 1 (Sep 2):
- Sections 1.1, 8.1, 8.2 (motivation, overview)
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Lecture 2 (Sep 4):
- Sections 1.2, 1.4, 1.8 (human visual system and graphics disp
lays)
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Lecture 3 (Sep 9):
- Sections 1.7, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7 (APIs, OpenGL)
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Lecture 4 (Sep 11):
- Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.9, (event-driven computing, GLUT)
- Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 (pixel/buffer operations)
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Lecture 5 (Sep 16):
- Sections 8.9, 8.10 (line drawing)
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Lecture 6 (Sep 23):
- Section 8.11 (polygon drawing)
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Lectures 7 and 8 (Sep 25 and 30):
- Chapter 4 (you can skip 4.4, 4.10, and 4.11 for now)
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Lecture 9 (Oct 2):
- Sections 2.5, 7.9, 8.13 (color, transparency, fog)
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Lecture 10 (Oct 7):
- Sections 7.11, 8.12 (sampling and filtering)
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Lecture 11 (Oct 9):
- Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (3D Viewing)
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Lecture 12 (Oct 14):
- Midterm Review
Good luck!