CS 5620 - Introduction to Computer Graphics

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: CS 2110 or ENGRD 2110, and MATH 1910 or MATH 1120, and MATH 2940 or MATH 2210 or MATH 2310 or equivalent. May be taken with or without concurrent enrollment in CS 4621. Co-meets with CS 4620.

A. Davis.

Introduction to the principles of computer graphics in two and three dimensions. Topics include digital images, filtering and antialiasing, 2-D and 3-D affine geometry, ray tracing, perspective and 3-D viewing, the graphics pipeline, curves and surfaces, and human visual perception. Homework assignments require some Java programming.