CS 318: Midterm Study Guide
Fall 2003
1 Lectures
The following is the list of lectures covered by this midterm. See the class Web page http://www-courses.cs.uiuc.
edu/
cs318/lectures.html for copies of the lecture notes.
Aug-27 Introduction
Aug-29 Graphics and Image Formation
Sep-3 OpenGL Essentials
Sep-5 2D Geometry & Transforms
Sep-8 3D Geometry & Transforms
Sep-10 Polygonal Modeling
Sep-12 Viewing & Projection
Sep-15 Illumination & Shading
Sep-17 Texture Mapping
Sep-19 Image Processing
Sep-22 Hierarchical Models
Sep-24 Animation
Sep-26 Physically Based Animation
Sep-29 Spline Curves
Oct-1 More Splines
Oct-3 Splines & Subdivision
Oct-6 Spline Surfaces
Oct-8 Swept Surfaces
Oct-10 Implicit surfaces & CSG
Oct-13 Midterm Review
2 Topics
The midterm is a comprehensive, closed book exam. You will not need calculators, PDAs, cheat sheets, or books, and
they will not be permitted. In principle, all material contained in lecture (whether on the lecture notes or not) and in the
assigned readings is a legitimate source of questions for the exam. This section attempts to outline the most important
topics, and to indicate their relative priority. But this is not guaranteed to be an exhaustive list. All the topics listed
have been divided into 3 categories:
✮✮✮ Things which you must know.
✩✩ Things which you should know.
➣Things which it would be nice to know.
As the descriptions above imply, these categories have been listed from most to least important. Questions on the
midterm will be drawn from all 3 categories. However, their relative importance indicated here will govern their
relative weight on the exam. In other words, the “must know” items will account for more points than the “should
know” and “nice to know” items.
2.1 Transformations
✮✮✮ Representation & use of affine transformations.
✮✮✮ Three fundamental transformations: rotation, scaling, translation.
✮✮✮ Composition of multiple transformations.
✮✮✮ Homogeneous coordinates.
