Announcements
5/27/08 The midterm is ready. Due Friday at the start of class either on paper or via email.
5/15/08 I am spec'ing out a machine for a lab. Here's the current specs. There's still a little room in the budget and I am open to different ideas. Any comments? There's a chance you'll this lab if you are here for the next year.
5/5/08 I stumbled through barycentric coordinates in class today. This line from the Wikipedia article on barycentric coordinates is much better "If we imagine masses equal to a1, …, an attached to the vertices of the simplex, the center of mass (the barycenter) is then p. This is the origin of the term "barycentric", introduced (1827) by August Ferdinand Möbius."
4/30/08 At last year's Education Week, Elder Scott gave a talk on To Learn and to Teach More Effectively You might take a look at it if you haven't already.
4/29/08 You can join this wiki and edit the pages. You'll need a password and the password is the last name of the textbook author. You do not need to join or login to read the webpages.
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4/28/08 We've found a TA and are ready to go. The TA will be Luther Tychonievich
3/07/08 We are going to need a TA for Spring Term. If you know someone that might be interested, have them drop me an email to ude.uyb.sc|senoj#ude.uyb.sc|senoj
3/07/08 I am editing the pages for Spring 08. Most everything is in place, but some details may change.
Details
This is the homepage for CS 455 in Spring 2008 taught by Mike Jones.
The textbook for Spring 2008 will be Fundamentals of Computer Graphics by Peter Shirley.
The class for Spring will be based on CS 455 from Fall 2007. So you can visit that course's web site to get a better idea for what it will be like this Spring.
Office Hours
Mike Jones' office hours are Tues 10-11 am, Wed 4-430 pm, Thurs 1:30-2 pm, Fri 1-130 pm in 3328 TMCB. Other hours by appointment.
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Help sessions are held in 1029 TMCB unless otherwise noted.
Help sessions are discontinued until further notice due to lack of a unified project. Luther will be available in his cubical during help sessions hours for individual project help.