CS535: Intermediate Computer Graphics (Fall 2025)

Lecture Notes

Will be followed in the following order.

• Intro & 2D Raster algorithms
• OpenGL and Shaders
The OpenGL Pipeline
Example programs (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (s)


• 3D Viewing
  Example program (1)
• 3D Data Structures, 3D Data Management and 3D Models
Example programs (1-1) (1-2) (1-3) (1-4) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
• Texture Mapping I
Example Program (1)


• Hidden Surface Elimination
• Lighting and Shadows I
Example programs (1-1) (1-2) (1-3)
• Lighting and Shadows II
Sample program (2) Sample program (3)


• Ray Tracing I
Example programs (1) (2) (3+4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13+14+15+16)
• Ray Tracing II (Solid Modeling)


• Texture Mapping II
Example program (1b)


• Curves and Surfaces V (Surface Modeling)

Related Sites

• Stanford (Undergrad/Grad)
• MIT(Undergrad)
• CMU(Grad)
• Berkeley(Undergrad/Grad)
• Caltech(Grad)
• UIUC (Undergrad/Grad)
• Cornell (Undergrad/Grad)
• Columbia (Undergrad)
• USC(Undergrad) (Grad)

Final Exam

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Instructor:
Dr. Fuhua (Frank) Cheng (cheng@cs.uky.edu)

This course covers 3D graphics and compute shader programming. It will help you achieve the following educational objectives: (1) understand openGL and shaders; (2) understand the concept of 3D viewing, lighting and rendering process; (3) understand the concept of hidden surface elimination, and know efficient techniques that can be used for such a process; (4) familiar with the shading process; (5) understand the concept of shadow generation and know how to choose efficient shadow-generation methods for 3D rendering problems; (6) understand how to use ray tracing technique to generate a high quality image, how to use CSG trees to represent solids, and how to render a CSG-represented solid; (6) understand how to use B-splines in 3D shape representation and how to perform subdivision and tessellation on B-spline based representations; (7) write compute shader programs to use GPUs to render 3D scenes using openGL as the supporting graphics system.  

The course syllabus is available in HTML format and PPT format .  

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