CS 447 Computer Graphics

Credit Hours:	4
Course Coordinator:	Feng Liu
Course Description:	This course will provide an introduction to computer graphics and focus on how to use computers to produce and manipulate images. It will cover the following list of topics on 2D image manipulation and 3D computer graphics. Light and the human visual system Color Images, quantization and sampling Image manipulations Raster graphics Coordinate systems and transformations The graphics pipeline and toolkits Viewing coordinate systems Clipping Hidden surface removal Introduction to visibility Local shading models Modeling with polygons Parametric curves Parametric surfaces Subdivision surfaces Ray-tracing Animation The course website is http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~fliu/courses/cs447/index.htm
Prerequisites:	CS 202, Math 261
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