Welcome to CS480 Lab page

Teaching Fellow

Jonathan Alon, jalon@cs.bu.edu
Office hours: Monday 2-4pm, room MCS 144 (Math Tutoring Room.)
Office phone: 353-5227

Labs and Discussions

There are two sections: W3-4:30 and W4:30-6. Students can attend either section. Labs are held in the CAS Computer Graphics Lab, CAS 327. Discussions are held in room GCB 208.

Schedule (subject to change)

Sep

• W 13 Lab: OpenGL/GLUT basics.
• W 20 Discussion: Questions on programming assignment 1. Linear algebra .
• W 27 Lab: Student demos of programming assignment 1.

Oct

• W 4 Lab: 2D transforms. Program assignment trouble shooting.
• W 11 Lab: Questions on programming assignment 2. Clipping.
• W 18 Discussion: Midterm review.
• W 25 Lab: Student demos of programming assignment 2.

Nov

• W 1 Lab: Questions on programming assignment 3. Matrix Stacks, Display Lists, and the Idle Function.
• W 8 Lab: Questions on programming assignment 3. Splines.
• W 15 Lab: Student demos of programming assignment 3.
• W 22 Thanksgiving, No lab !!!
• W 29 Lab: Questions on programming assignment 3. Camera models, 3D transforms and Quaternions.

Dec

• W 6 Lab: Student demos of programming assignment 4.

Other Useful Links

• UNIX Commands and Concepts - brush up on your UNIX skills.
• OpenGL/GLUT for PC users
• Example C++ Makefile

Solutions

Sample p2 solutions: The first two are solid implementations (without concave polygon fill). The last two have the nutorious concave polygon fill working. When you take a look at the solutions, it is instructive to consider which implementation you prefer and why : which implementation is user friendly, or which one would you buy ;-), and how readable/understandable the code is?

• Vivian Salib : vsalib.tar.Z
• Vishal Lalwani : vlalwani.tar.Z
• Fedor Kouranov : fedor.tar.Z
• Harrison Hong : hhong.tar.Z

To extract Vivian's files for example you must type:

uncompress vsalib.tar.Z
tar -xvf vsalib.tar

Thanks for the volunteers !

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